在台湾执业13年后，曾在贝克•麦坚实台北办公室担任合伙人的许进胜律师，于近日加盟北京中银律师事务所成为高级顾问和运营中心总监。许律师的专业领域集中在资本市场，并购，公司治理以及外商投资。他拥有清华大学EMBA学位。
许进胜律师的加入不仅能加强中银提供专业服务的能力，同时也将为该所的发展策略注入国际视野。许律师表示，规模化和国际化发展为目前中银发展的重点，该所正准备于近期在福州、无锡、济南、天津以及青岛等地开设分所，同时也在与一些伦敦和香港的律师事务所探讨战略合作事宜。
2009年ALB China的统计数据表明，中银为全国规模最大的十家律师事务所之一。2009年6月，该所律师总人数达263人，并且在国内外设有十多家分支机构和代表处，包括法兰克福以及多伦多。
A 2008 merger with Beijing Zhengtai law firm has made Zhongyin one of the country's ten largest firms by number of lawyers. According to The ALB China 20, the Beijing-headquartered firm had 263 lawyers, including 36 partners, across more than ten branches and representative offices as at June 2009.
The firm's strong growth has caught the attention of many peers, certainly including Baker & McKenzie's former Taipei partner Steven Hsu (pictured). With 13 years of experience practising law in Taiwan and an EMBA from Beijing Tsinghua University, Hsu has recently joined Zhongyin's Beijing head office as senior consultant and managing director of the firm's marketing center.
"I've realised that China one day will become the largest market in the world and I would not want to miss the growing chance with this market. So I've decided to leave Taiwan and move to the mainland," said Hsu.
Hsu's practice focuses on capital markets, M&A, corporate strategic alliance and FDI. In addition to strengthening Zhongyin's expertise in these practice areas, Hsu's appointment will also boost the firm's new development strategy, of which expansion and globalisation is an important part.
"We've fixed our eyes on international expansion and more international business. Hsu's international experience and perspectives will help us better execute our goal of becoming a large, international PRC firm," said Zhao Cenghai, managing partner of Zhongyin.
Having already established representative offices in Toronto and Frankfurt, the firm is currently exploring possibilities to form strategic alliances with London and Hong Kong law firms. Locally, it is planning to open or is opening branch offices in Fuzhou, Wuxi, Jinan, Tianjin and Qingdao.
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