A number of UK firms – including Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith – have promoted a slew of new partners in a renewed push to bulk up their China practices.
Clifford Chance’s Maggie Lo ascended to partnership at the firm’s Beijing office. Her practice focuses on the banking and finance sectors and has advised key Chinese and overseas financial institutions and borrowers on their projects, acquisitions, property development and other financing deals. Qualified in Hong Kong, Lo joined the firm in 2000.
Other newly promoted partners at Clifford Chance’s Shanghai office include Kelly Gregory, Glen Ma and Jean Thio.
Gregory specialises in cross-border M&A, disposals and reorganizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances and investments. She advised Airbus on a joint venture with PRC state-owned enterprises to establish an A320 aircraft final assembly line in Tianjin. She joined the firm’s Shanghai office in 2004 and is admitted in England and Wales and Australia.
Ma advised local and foreign clients on foreign direct investments, M&A transactions and general corporate matters. He is qualified in China and is also admitted to the New York bar.
Singapore and New York qualified Thio focuses on capital markets transactions and has been acting for both issuers and underwriters in Hong Kong, Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange listings.
Other UK firms based in China have also beefed up its offices with Herbert Smith’s recent promotion of US securities specialist Melody Chen in Beijing. Admitted to practice in New York, California and China, Chen has extensive experience advising on corporate matters and securities regulation.ALB
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