China Practice
Latham & Watkins' China Practice provides legal services to multinational corporations, investment banks and private equity funds doing business in Greater China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and to Chinese companies with their international capital markets and outbound investment activities. With offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, we are able to combine our local knowledge of the Chinese marketplace with the depth of an international practice that stretches across 30 offices worldwide.
Members of the Latham & Watkins China Practice have between 10 to 25 years of individual experience advising clients doing business in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Latham is now one of a select few top-ranked firms to provide substantive US, Hong Kong and English law advice. Our clients benefit from this combined platform of high level legal expertise as they develop their business through both inbound and outbound investment activities.
Latham's practice in Greater China has grown considerably in recent years and was most recently augmented with the addition of a Beijing office in January 2010. Our team includes partners and associates who are fluent in Mandarin and many other Chinese dialects, including Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka and Taiwanese.
Our experience in China includes:
Antitrust / Competition Issues
Banking, Leveraged & Structured Finance
Capital Markets
Employment
Financial Regulatory
Foreign Direct Investment
Litigation
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity
Project Development & Finance
Public Company Representation
Real Estate Investment
Restructuring, Insolvency and Workouts
Technology
Our China practice has been recognized by a number of leading legal publications. Chambers Asia praises Latham in China: This "insightful and multifaceted team" is well respected for its "smooth and thorough handling of matters".
Latham & Watkins was awarded Project Finance Deal of the Year in the 2008 International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia Awards for its role as international counsel on the US$4 billion landmark Fujian Refining & Ethylene project, China's first integrated refining and petrochemical project with foreign participation.
Latham was ranked first among issuer’s counsel by IPO Vital Signs on Chinese IPOs in the US between 2007 and 2009, advising on 14 IPOs with an aggregate value of more than US$2.35 billion.