Broad & Bright bolstered its corporate practice by hiring senior counsel Jiang Ren from King & Wood’s Beijing office. Jiang’s practice comprises foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure and energy projects, and trade and commercial contracts.

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In the year 1867, when Englishman William Harwood was admitted to the title of solicitor, he decided that he would start his own business immediately in a city thousands of miles away from his own native country.

Two senior China-based Mallesons Stephen Jaques partners have defected to international firm DLA Piper ahead of suspected merger between Mallesons and Chinese firm King & Wood.

China is tightening tax laws related to foreign companies, a recent corporate briefing from Thomson Reuters said.

Baker & McKenzie is holding its annual meeting of partners in Beijing this week; the first major international law firm to choose China as the venue for its yearly partner meeting.

While there is no denying that the potential for China-Russia two-way investment levels to dwarf all others in the Asia-Pacific, the situation thus far has been anything but large. According to Russia’s Federal Customs Service, trade with China accounted for just 9.6 percent of Russia’s foreign trade during January to November in 2010, or $53 billion, up from 8.4 percent in the same period a year earlier. This is a far cry from the figure of 49.6 percent, the European Union’s share of Russia’s foreign trade.

Chinese law firm Guo & Partners has struck a long-term partner cooperation agreement with prominent Pakistan-based law firm Rizvi, Isa, Afridi & Angell (RIAALAW).

美国律所德汇已经和中国本地律所胡光律师事务所结成「特别顾问」关系。胡光律所是上海一家专业性企业事务律所。该所主理合伙人胡光在离开邦信阳律所后于二零零八年成立了自己的律所，目前拥有二十名律师。