Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom will open a Shanghai branch Monday, February 18th, the firm has announced. Partner Gregory Miao, formerly of Beijing and Hong Kong, will head the office, which will focus on corporate and real estate law. Skadden joins a rush of moves to Shanghai, where it will join firms such as Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.
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Minneapolis-based firm Fredrikson & Byron will open an office in Shanghai, the firm has reported. The new office will be helmed by attorney Ruilin Li and will house two additional attorneys.
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Foley & Lardner LLP has announced that it has opened an office in Shanghai. Catherine Sun, a recent acquisition from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, will head the new office. Sun is an intellectual property attorney and much of the new office’s work will be in that area.
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Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has announced the opening of a new branch in Shanghai.Michael Hickman, who previously headed the firm’s Hong Kong branch, will be managing partner of the new office, which will house five attorneys.
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Shearman & Sterling has opened an office in Shanghai, its third in China after Beijing and Hong Kong. The new office will be headed by project finance partner Andrew Ruff. Ruff was previously a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office, but he relocated to Shanghai last October to prepare for the opening. The Shanghai office also includes five associates, and will focus on project finance, capital markets, and M&A work. Shearman & Sterling has 20 offices worldwide.
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Until recently, most firms that have entered the China market have been large and either based out of D.C. or the West Coast. Things have changed however, as two smaller firms have established business in China. White & Williams has had a China business practice group since 2003, and has held an informal alliance with Chinsese firm Xue Law Firm since the summer of 2006. Last month, the two firms made an official strategic alliance which will hopefully create more work and facilitate its existing work. Ohio firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff is also developing its China practice, having received its license in Feb. to open in Shanghai. The firm will send partner Yanping Wang to head the office and recruit other attorneys; the firm hopes to build the office up to 10 to 15 lawyers.
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Foley & Lardner announced that it has filed an application to open an office in Shanghai. Catherine Sun, a partner from Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Shanghai office, was hired to head Foley’s Shanghai office, assuming that it will be approved. The new office will focus on intellectual property, specifically IP counseling and dispute resolution. Clients will also need the firm’s help with IP asset management, licensing, and litigation. Joining Sun in Shanghai will be seven other Foley attorneys, including three Chinese nationals. The Shanghai office would be Foley’s second in Asia, following the Tokyo location that opened in 2003.
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Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has hired IP Partner Aaron Wininger in its Shanghai office. Wininger comes from Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, and has significant experience in patent prosecution, client counseling, and patent litigation for Asia-based companies and Silicon Valley start-ups. He expects to expand his client base with Thelen Reid doing work in non-IP, corporate financing, and M&A. Thelen Reid’s Shanghai office has been growing recently – since January, the firm has added seven attorneys, pushing its numbers to twelve.
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Shearman & Sterling was finally granted a license to open in Shanghai today; the firm expects to open the new office later this spring. This will be the third office in the firm’s China operations after those in Hong Kong and Beijing. Corporate partner Andrew Ruff will head the new office; he has worked in the region for over 10 years focusing on M&A, infrastructure projects, and project finance. Chicago firm McDermott Will & Emery also launched in Shanghai this year.
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Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has made another lateral hire in its Shanghai office, bringing its numbers there to 11. David Tang, a corporate of counsel, joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, and specializes in real estate finance and corporate work for foreign and Chinese companies. Other recent additions to the Shanghai office include Richard Chao, from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and three new Chinese legal consultants. In order to accomodate the new hires, the firm has moved from a small temporary office to the Bund Center in the old financial district.
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