Alex Liu

Partner

Global Law Office

Alex Liu is a partner at Global Law Office, Beijing.  Mr. Liu focuses on takeover and restructuring of listed companies, cross-border M&A, onshore and offshore IPOs, debts financing, PE/VC investment, FDI and overseas investment.  Mr. Liu's practice covers real estate, energy and resources, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, infrastructure, retail, e-Commerce, TMT, financial services, education, resorts and agriculture, etc. Mr. Liu has advised high-profile takeover or restructuring transactions, e.g., the privatization of H share company Zhengzhou Gas (03928), the over RMB10 billion takeover of HK listed Tianjin Port Development (03382) by Tianjin Port Group as well as the former's takeover of A share company Tianjin Port (600717) through cross-border share exchange, Melco International's acquisition of Yabuli and other state-owned or private ski resorts and hotels in China as well as the former's RTO at Toronto.  In capital market, Mr. Liu assisted either issuers or underwriters for many IPO projects at HKEx, NYSE, Nasdaq or ChiNext. Mr. Liu received a LL.M. from UC Berkeley, School of Law in 2010, a LL.M. from Renmin University of China, School of Law in 2004, and a LL.B. from Northeastern University in 2001.

Calvin Ding

Associate

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Calvin Ding focuses his practice on counseling both U.S. and non-U.S. clients in international corporate and commercial projects, including mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, corporate restructuring, private equity and venture capital. He regularly advises clients in internal investigations and issues arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Prior to practicing law, Calvin worked as a research analyst in The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center and interned for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

Dawn Zhang

Co-Managing Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Dawn (Dan) Zhang has broad experience advising clients on China-related cross-border mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures, funds, and general corporate matters. Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Dawn practiced in other international law firms for many years and served as the PRC legal counsel for a multinational corporation, where she handled a wide variety of corporate matters for public and emerging growth companies. Dawn passed the national PRC judicial qualification examination in 1998 and is admitted to practice in New York.

Dr. Isabelle I H Wan

Senior Partner &Leader, Employment Law Practice

TransAsia Lawyers

Dr. Wan has worked in China for over 20 years. She enjoys a pre-eminent reputation for her expertise in PRC employment law, and is regularly invited by the Chinese government to join legislative drafting sessions and comment on draft laws and regulations. Dr. Wan is a Director of the China Labor Law Studies Association and China Social Security Law Research Association.  She holds professorships at Peking University and the Northwest University of Politics & Law. Among various other awards, Dr. Wan was honored as one of "Asia's Leading Lawyers" by Asia Law & Practice (2002, 2004 – 2013).  TransAsia was voted China's "Employment Law Firm of the Year" by Chambers & Partners (2010, 2011, 2013), "PRC Firm of the Year for Labor & Employment" by China Law & Practice (2011 – 2013 ) and "Law Firm of the Year for Employment & Industrial Relations" in China for 2013 by China Business Law Journals.

Lu Lizhong

Executive Partner

Sunshine Law Firm

Mr. Lu, as a large energy power enterprises’ longtime legal adviser , has extensive experience in legal services on mergers and acquisitions, investment and financing, specializing in trading, construction in fields of coal, electricity , natural gas and oil industries. Currently serves as a legal adviser for China GuoDian, China Nuclear Power, Zhejiang Energy Group, China Resources Power, and many large enterprise groups.

Meph Gui

Partner

Global Law Office

Admitted to practice laws in both China and the U.S., Meph Jia Gui advises on various intellectual property (IP) matters in China relating to the creation, exploitation and protection of IP rights, including contentious and non-contentious IP matters. With the work experience at leading law firms for years in China, he represented multinationals across a broad range of industries in relation to enforcement, acquisition and licensing of trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret and domain names. Some lawsuits he handled were recognized by the Supreme People's Court of China ("SPC") as exemplary cases in annual reports of SPC. Meph is the youngest among the very few Chinese arbitrators of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Michael X. Marinelli

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Michael X. Marinelli has wide-ranging experience advising clients on the federal regulation of international transactions. He focuses his practice on U.S. export control regulations, including the EAR, the ITAR, and the economic sanctions regimes enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), as well as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Michael counsels clients in multiple industries, including aerospace, energy, telecommunications, consumer electronics, software and life sciences, on complying the broad array of statutes and regulations regimes that apply to cross-border transactions. His transactional counseling ranges from providing advice on individual transactions and relationships to evaluating compliance in the context of mergers and acquisition, which includes assisting clients in matters before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) under the Exon-Florio amendment and the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA). Michael also has experience in export and FCPA enforcement matters, including conducting internal investigations, preparing and managing voluntary disclosures, and defending companies subject to criminal and civil investigations of possible violations. As part of both the transactional and enforcement aspects of his practice, he assists clients in the development and implementation of internal compliance programs.

Peiming Yang

Partner

Llinks Law Offices

Graduating from the Law School of Fudan University, Mr. Yang started to practice law in 1997 and joined Llinks Law Offices as a partner in 2012. He is fluent in both English and Mandarin. Mr. Yang is an excellent litigator and arbitration lawyer, having represented not only multinational corporations and foreign invested enterprises, but also large state-owned enterprise groups and private companies in hundreds of litigation and arbitration cases.  He specialized in dispute resolution in foreign direct investment, corporate equity transfer, real estate development and acquisition, construction, intellectual property protection, Sino-foreign equity joint venture and cooperative joint venture contracts, international trade and other civil and commercial contracts. Mr. Yang also acts as a perennial legal counsel for numerous renowned foreign invested enterprises and large state-owned enterprise groups, advising on their daily operation, project investments, restructuring, merger & acquisition, equity financing and others. 

Yang Weidong

Lawyer

Sunshine Law Firm

Mr. Yang has been in teaching and research on International Economic (investment) Law and Energy/Electricity Law for a long time, he has provided legal services for the establishment of FIEs in China, as well as overseas investment of Beijing state-owned industrial enterprises, as a consultant of Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy. He has also participated in many project researches including (China Power Investment Corporation-Research on Prevention & Control System of Overseas Investment).

Dr. Zhan Hao

Managing Partner

Anjie Law Firm

As the managing partner of AnJie and Head of its Competition Law Department, Dr. Zhan Hao has extensive experience in antitrust and anti-unfair competition practice. In 2008, Dr. Zhan Hao was invited as a competition law expert to deliver a series of lectures via the training website. Dr. Zhan was extensively involved in the legislation of the Chinese competition laws and regulations, and has played an active role in rule-making regarding monopoly agreements, abuse of market dominance, concentration of undertakings, and unfair competition behaviors. From 2009 to 2013, Dr. Zhan has consecutively received the Competition/Antitrust Lawyer Award from Chambers and Partners. In 2012 and 2013, Dr. Zhan was ranked as “China Antitrust Lawyer” by Who is Who, an renowned international lawyer rating institution. In addition, Dr. Zhan was also recommended as “China’s Leading Competition/Antitrust Lawyer” by ALB China and Expert Guide.

Zhao Li

Partner

Global Law Office

Mr. Li is specialized in providing legal services in general corporate matters, labor law and commercial litigation and arbitration, etc. In general corporate matters, Mr. Li provided legal services including general and specific legal consultation, M&A, corporation dissolution and bankruptcy for large state-owned enterprises and their subsidiaries, foreign-invested enterprises and their Chinese subsidiaries, domestic and foreign listed companies and private enterprises. In labor law, Mr. Li provided non-contentious legal services for many multinational companies and their Chinese subsidiaries, listed state-owned and private companies especially in the area of M&A, relocation and dissolution and HR management. In contentious area, he represented in approximately a hundred labor dispute arbitration and litigation cases. In commercial litigation and arbitration, Mr. Li represented his clients in hundreds of various commercial disputes accepted by the Supreme People’s Court, high people's courts and local people's courts in Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangdong, etc. as well as CIETAC.

Dr. Zhou Zhanggui

Assistant Director

Sunshine Law Firm

With excellent bilingual working ability, Dr. Zhou has a full command of knowledge on energy project development and financing processes. He served as program officer at ICSHP (2005–2011), and as UNIDO consultant he implemented a number of energy-project feasibility studies in Latin America and Africa. Now he is member of key research program of Chinese Academy of Engineering on ‘Support and Guarantee for Energy Production and Consumption Revolution’.