Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has installed Woon-Wah Siu as the new office managing partner of its Shanghai office and Scott Kline as its China representative. 

Siu is promoted to the new position after she was appointed as a partner of the U.S. firm four months ago. A veteran corporate and securities lawyer with 17 years of experience, Siu specializes in China-oriented capital markets transactions.
 
She has represented Chinese companies in various securities offerings such as initial public offerings, fully-marketed, confidentially-marketed follow-on underwritten offerings and registered direct offerings.  She also advises U.S. and international investors on China-related merger and acquisitions transactions and other matters related to foreign direct investments.

Prior to joining Pillsbury, Siu worked for Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLP in Chicago. A multilingual lawyer fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Dutch and French, Siu is also a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the Chinese American Bar Association.

As a part of Pillsbury's firm-wide promotion, Scott Kline, a Shanghai-based partner was picked as the firm’s China representative. He is responsible for liaising with Shanghai’s Bureau of Justice and the national-level Ministry of Justice on all matters concerning regulation of foreign law firms' representative offices in China. Kline has extensive general corporate and securities law experience.  ALB

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