Ruomu Li has joined Cooley’s Shanghai office as a partner in the firm’s business department, where she will focus on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions with an emphasis on the technology and life sciences industries. Li arrives from Morrison & Foerster, where she served as a partner in the M&A, private equity investments and buyouts practices. She has extensive experience representing strategic and financial investors and target companies in the US, across China, and internationally on a broad range of M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions.

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Global law firm Ashurst is pleased to announce that it has expanded its corporate transactions practice with the addition of Yan Yuan as a partner in Shanghai. Yan joins from Clifford Chance, having worked in its New York and China offices since 2007.

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Hogan Lovells has today announced that Calvin Ding will be joining the firm as a partner in its Investigations, White Collar and Fraud practice, based in the Shanghai office. Calvin will join Hogan Lovells from Greenberg Traurig where he was a shareholder. He will start with the firm on 22 September.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Roberta Chang as a partner in the firm’s tax practice. Ms. Chang joins the firm’s Shanghai office from Hogan Lovells, where she was a partner and the head of its China tax group.

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Acclaimed corporate lawyer Yiming Liu has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s global capital markets practice. Based in Shanghai, Liu bolsters Cooley’s healthcare & life sciences platform and its capital markets, M&A, and partnering and licensing capabilities across the Asia Pacific region. He arrives from O’Melveny & Myers.

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Hogan Lovells is strengthening its Corporate & Finance practice in Greater China with the hire of three Corporate partners, Don Williams, Tony Mou and Cheng Xu. All join from Sheppard Mullin’s Shanghai office.

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Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced that leading disputes lawyer, Nicholas Lum, will re-join our Shanghai office as a partner in December 2019. Nicholas is a dispute resolution specialist with particular focus on international trade and commodities, shipping and shipbuilding and general commercial disputes. He will be joining from Ince, where he is a Partner of their Shanghai office, and formerly the Head of their Singapore office’s China Practice Group. Nicholas had previously spent up to five years working in Clyde & Co’s Shanghai office shortly upon its establishment in 2006. More >>