Shanghai-headquartered HaoLiWen Partners opened its Beijing office in December in a strategic move to better service clients in both cities, and also maintain closer ties with China’s regulators and judiciary.
The new Beijing office will be manned by three partners, Zhao Deming, Shao Tiemin and Cathy Lin.
The Beijing office is HaoLiWen’s third, to go with its Shanghai headquarters and a Dublin branch. Founded in 2003, the full-service firm is known for its expertise in corporate and M&A, customs and transportation, IP, antitrust, maritime and logistics, labour law, dispute resolution, and PE.
“It (the opening) positions HaoLiWen in proximity to the central regulatory authorities,” said Zhao Deming, a senior partner at HaoLiWen. “This will help the firm to respond more swiftly to regulatory compliance environment changes in areas such as customs and tariffs, FDI and M&As, anti-monopoly and anti-commercial bribery, new energy policies, intellectual property protection, private equity and IPO.”
Prior to his current role of overseeing the firm’s corporate, commercial and litigation practices, Zhao was an associate professor at Xiamen University. He has also worked as corporate counsel with Eastman Kodak in Greater China, and was a senior associate in Paul Hastings’ Hong Kong and Shanghai offices.
Shao, a senior partner specialising in customs and tariff advisory, was a customs law professor and dean at the Shanghai Customs College before joining the firm.
Lin, who joined the firm in December, is a partner in HaoLiWen’s corporate and financial advisory practice. She was formerly an in-house counsel at the China office of South African chemical company Sasol. Prior to that, she worked in the Beijing offices of Tianyuan Law Firm and Clifford Chance. ALB
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