Beijing
Latham & Watkins’ Beijing office, opening its doors in January 2010, is the most recent addition to the firm’s Greater China practice.
Working closely with the rest of our Greater China team based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, as well as colleagues in our offices in Singapore and Tokyo, the Beijing office represents Chinese companies in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets transactions and other complex financing transactions. The team also advises US, European and Asian companies conducting business in China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Our Greater China team includes lawyers who are fluent in both written and spoken Mandarin and have received US, Hong Kong and PRC legal education and training.
Practice Areas
As part of our Greater China practice, lawyers in the Beijing office handle a range of transactions, including international capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, restructurings and project financings.
Members of the Latham team draw on more than 25 years of experience advising clients doing business in China. As counsel to issuers or underwriters, our attorneys have been involved in many international equity, debt and equity-linked offerings by issuers in China and across Asia. We also represent some of the world's largest private equity funds and multinational corporations in their acquisitions or investments in the PRC and Asia. In addition, we regularly act as lead counsel for the sponsors or lenders on the region's landmark power, petrochemical, and oil and gas projects.
Our clients regularly take advantage of our Greater China Practice’s intimate knowledge of the marketplace and are supported by the full resources of Latham & Watkins’ global network of offices.