China Business Law Journal's unique content is being shaped and guided by an editorial board made up of distinguished business, legal and financial professionals from a variety of countries and industries.
Editorial Board members include:
1) Donna Li, Senior Partner, AllBright Law Offices
Donna Li is a senior partner at AllBright Law Offices, and has broad experience in the areas of corporate, banking, finance and labour law, with a focus on cross border investment, mergers and acquisitions and international business transactions. She advises multinational companies on their investments, operations, finance, legal compliance and employment issues in China. She also advises Chinese companies and entrepreneurs on their business transactions in connection with foreign investment. She has represented many US, European, Japanese and Chinese clients from various industries in a wide range of practice areas. Prior to joining AllBright, Ms Li had worked as a corporate and finance associate in the New York offices of two large American law firms, and as a group legal counsel for a NASDAQ listed company in Hong Kong.
2) Andrew Starger, Chief Counsel, AT&T China
Andrew has been chief counsel for AT&T China since 2004 and is based in Beijing. He has responsibility for the management of legal affairs for AT&T’s activities in Greater China, as well as for assisting the chief Asia Pacific counsel with managing AT&T’s legal affairs in the rest of the Asia/Pacific region. Andrew began his career with AT&T in Hong Kong in 1988. He speaks Mandarin and reads Chinese and English.
3) Danian Zhang, Chief Representative and Senior Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Danian is the chief representative and senior partner of the Shanghai office of Baker & McKenzie. He is also co-leader of the firm’s China practice group. Danian’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and environmental law in China. He is widely recognized as one of the leading corporate and M&A lawyers in China. Danian has written for numerous publications and books in the areas of M&A, foreign investment and environmental law. He is admitted in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
4) Phillip Jackson, Managing Regional Legal Counsel, Asia Pacific, Baker Hughes
Phillip is a barrister and solicitor based in Perth, Australia. For the past 13 years, he has been the managing regional legal counsel, Asia-Pacific, for Baker Hughes, one of the biggest oilfield services companies in the world. Phillip is a director of a number of Baker Hughes companies in Asia and elsewhere. He is chairman and a founder of Aurora Resources and Desert Energy, which operate in Australia, and a director and founder of Scotgold Resources, which operates in the United Kingdom. He has worked across Asia and the Middle East for the past 20 years, which has included extensive work in China. Phillip has contributed to numerous publications, particularly in respect of economic development in China and India and the oil and gas industry.
5) Wang Qi, General Manager, Legal and Compliance Department, Bank of China (Head Office)
Wang Qi is general manager of the Legal and Compliance Department of the Bank of China. She has served with the Bank of China continuously since 1984, and has extensive experience of legal, compliance, internal control and operational risk matters. She has contributed to the drafting of a number of laws and regulations, including the UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit, the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade, and the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers. Ms Wang is an arbitrator of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.
6) Ding Shuo, Project Manager, Legal Department, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Ding Shuo was a member of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. During more than seven years on the committee, he worked on a wide range of legal matters relating to the business of sport, and the major projects relating to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. These included marketing programmes, the broadcasting of the games, venue construction, the protection of intellectual property rights, and the torch relay and opening and closing ceremonies. Ding Shuo has a master's degree in international economic law from the China Foreign Affairs University.
7) Zheng Yong, General Manager, Legal and Compliance, China Life Insurance Company
Zheng Yong is general manager of the legal and compliance department at China Life Insurance Company. Prior to assuming this role, he worked as an attorney-at-law with Beijing L&A Law Firm, China Law Office (Hong Kong) and Beijing DeHeng Law Firm. Mr Zheng served as a division chief of the Ministry of Justice of China from 1992 to 1997. He has also been a visiting fellow at both Harvard Law School and JF Kennedy School of Government in the USA. Mr Zheng graduated from Peking University with an LLB degree and holds LLM degrees from China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and the University of Essex in England.
8) Steven Yeo, Asia General Counsel, Global Transactions Services and Corporate & Commercial Bank, Citi
Steven Yeo is a managing director of Citi’s global institutional banking group and the Asia general counsel of its global transactions services and corporate and commercial bank. He has been covering legal affairs in Asia for over 13 years, and has advised on a number of regulatory developments across Asia, including advising the Hong Kong Trustee & Custodian Forum on the introduction of Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund scheme. Steven was actively engaged in the implementation of the PRC Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) regime for Citi and its customers, and contributed to the China Securities and Regulatory Commission’s task force on enhancing and developing the PRC QFII market. Steven has particular interest in the development of securities markets, and has presented to the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Vietnam State Securities Commission and the Reserve Bank of India on key legal issues associated with value-transfer networks.
9) Deng Yongquan (Dennis), Senior Partner, Dacheng Law Offices
Dennis Deng is a senior partner of Dacheng Law Offices. He specializes in foreign direct investment, mergers & acquisitions, real estate & construction and litigation & arbitration (CIETAC). Before practising as a lawyer, Mr Deng was secretary to the board of directors and chief legal officer for COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages and COFCO Coca-Cola Beverage (China) Investment, where he took charge of the legal affairs of the two companies and numerous affiliate companies thereof, thus acquiring rich experience in international business operations and management.
10) Philip Gu, General Counsel, Danone
Philip Gu spent eight years in the mountainous countryside of Jiangxi Province during the Cultural Revolution. He passed the university entrance examination when it resumed in 1977, and later obtained a master of law degree from the East China Institute of Politics and Law, where he was subsequently employed as a lecturer. He passed the Chinese bar examination in 1988 and became a lawyer in Shanghai No. 7 Law Office, while at the same time acting as the director of the international department of Shanghai Foreign Economic and Law Consultancy Centre. He joined Danone in 1999, and since then has been the general counsel for Danone China.
11) Peter Corne, Managing Director, Eversheds Shanghai Office
Having been based in Shanghai since 1996, Peter Corne joined Eversheds in 2006, and is the managing partner of the firm's Shanghai office. Qualified to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong, New South Wales and Victoria, he specialises in the area of Chinese corporate, commercial and regulatory practice, and has more recently developed his practice in the field of global warming and renewable energy. He is recognised as a leading practitioner in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and equity and asset acquisitions of foreign-invested enterprises and State-owned enterprises. Peter has acted for a number of major corporate clients such as Coca-Cola, Hershey, SPX, Mitsui & Co, Itochu, Marubeni, Alcatel, Syngenta, Sumitomo Chemical, Asahi Chemical, Intel, Toshiba and BOC Gases. He is, in addition, a noted authority on PRC administrative law and the foreign investment process, having authored a critically acclaimed book on the subject. He is a regular speaker on PRC corporate legal issues, and heads the EU Chamber of Commerce legal committee in Shanghai.
12) Philip Nunn, Head of Litigation and Arbitration, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Philip Nunn is the head of the litigation and arbitration practice at Fried Frank’s Hong Kong office. He also heads the firm’s construction law and infrastructure project practices. Philip has 35 years' post qualification experience (over 30 years in Hong Kong) in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration, major infrastructure projects, construction law and a wide variety of commercial contract matters. Mr Nunn is currently chairman of the Inter Pacific Bar Association’s International Construction Projects Committee. He is also a chartered arbitrator and a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of many panels of arbitrators including the CIETAC panel and the HKIAC panel.
13) Wang Lei, Partner, Gaopeng & Partners (Formerly Deputy Director for Trade Policy and WTO Affairs, MOFTEC)
Mr Wang served for ten years in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation, ending up as a deputy director for trade policy and WTO affairs. Since he left the government to join private practise in 1996, Mr Wang has acted as counsel for clients in over one hundred trade remedy investigations launched by the EU, the US, Canada, Australia, India, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Mexico and China. He also advises governments, semi-governmental agencies and companies on WTO law. Mr Wang is the author of numerous publications in both Chinese and English on the subjects of the world trade system and WTO law.
14) Shawn Zhao, Managing Counsel, Google Greater China
Since 1996, Shawn Zhao has been the managing counsel of Google Greater China. He previously worked for Cisco Systems as regional corporate counsel, and regional corporate counsel for Marconi Communications. Earlier in his career, Shawn worked as an associate for Armstrong Teasdale. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Sichuan University in 1984, and a Master of Arts in American history from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1990. He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1994 from Saint Louis University School of Law. Mr Zhao is the member of Missouri Bar Association, and the member of American Bar Association.
15) Zhan Hao, Managing Partner, AnJie Law Firm
Dr. Zhan Hao is the managing partner of AnJie Law Firm. His practice encompasses competition, insurance and international arbitration. Dr. Zhan was honored as leading lawyer by international and domestic top ranking institutions. Meanwhile, He actively participates in law-making process of China. In 2009, he was elected vice chairman of the Consulting Committee of Compulsory Traffic Accident Liability Insurance, and was the sole attorney representative on this committee. Currently, he is a CIETAC arbitrator and the vice president of Professional Committee of ACLA. Dr. Zhan has written numerous publications and articles, and has lectured regarding anti-monopoly law and insurance law on the professional training website. Now He is an adjunct professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics School of Law.
16) Tom Yu, Legal Director, InBev China
Tom Yu graduated from the East China Law School (now East China University of Politics & Law) in 2001. He subsequently joined Wyselead Law Firm, where he was mainly engaged in foreign direct investment and other non-contentious work. He passed the Uniform Judicial Exam in 2002 and obtained his lawyer’s certificate the same year. In 2004, Tom joined Interbrew, a leading international brewer. After merger with Ambev and Anheuser-Busch, Interbrew was re-named Anheuser-Busch InBev, and became the largest beer company in the world. Tom is now the legal director for Anheuser-Busch InBev China. He has rich experience in foreign direct investment and general corporate affairs.
17) Wan Kwong Wen, Group General Counsel - Asia, Infineon Technologies
Wan Kwong Wen is Group General Counsel – Asia for Infineon Technologies. He is admitted to practise as advocate and solicitor in Singapore and as a solicitor in England & Wales. Kwong Weng has extensive experience in corporate and commercial matters in the region, and was previously with the US law firm Baker & McKenzie. He was conferred the Wise Speke Prize and the Justice FA Chua Memorial Prize for his undergraduate and Singapore Bar examinations respectively. He is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has also attended both the Harvard Negotiation Program for Senior Executives in Cambridge, MA (USA), and the INSEAD AIEP.
18) Li Zhiqiang, Founding Partner, Jin Mao Partners
Mr Li is a senior lawyer and founding partner of Jin Mao Partners. He has specialized in multinational mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and IPOs since 1990. Mr Li is a councillor of the International Bar Association, vice-chairman of the Legal Practice Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, WTO Committee and Financing & Securities Committee of All China Lawyers Association, a commissioner of the 10th session of All China Youth Federation, a councillor of the Shanghai Outstanding Youth Association and the Shanghai Young Entrepreneurs’ Association, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and an Arbitrator of CIETAC and the Shanghai Arbitration Commission. Mr Li is the author of a number of books on legal and business topics.
19) Carson Wen, Deputy of the HKSAR to the National People's Congress of China, Of Counsel, Jones Day
Carson Wen has more than 30 years of experience in business, corporate and securities law. His diverse portfolio of transactions includes many firsts: a reverse takeover listing of the first PRC-controlled listed company in Hong Kong; the first listing of a company on the Foreign Board of the Singapore Stock Exchange; and one of the earliest acquisitions by PRC financial institutions of a significant stake in a Hong Kong licensed bank. Carson represents international and Hong Kong companies in their direct investments in China, including joint ventures, wholly owned enterprises, and acquiring interests in existing PRC companies. He has also advised PRC authorities and Chinese state-owned enterprises in transactions with overseas companies, and has acted for overseas investors and lenders in large-scale real estate developments in China. In 2007, Carson was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) in the Honours List of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He is a deputy of the HKSAR to the National People's Congress of China. In addition, he is a justice of the peace of Hong Kong, holds various public service appointments in mainland China and Hong Kong.
20) Wong Teck Kow, General Counsel, North Asia, Jones Lang LaSalle
Wong Teck Kow is the general counsel (North Asia) for Jones Lang LaSalle. In this role, he manages the company’s legal and regulatory affairs in the North Asia region, with a strong focus on China. His areas of specialization include corporate, contracts, employment, funds and real estate law. He also advises on complex pan-China licensing and regulatory issues. Teck Kow is also the legal representative and executive director of Sandalwood Property Management (Beijing), a joint venture between Jones Lang LaSalle and Colonial First State Property Management specializing in retail management in China. Teck Kow has extensive experience training financial advisers in compliance, and coaching employees and clients on corporate ethics. He is also an adjunct lecturer in business law with a Singapore tertiary institution.
21) David Olsson, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
David Olsson is a partner based in the Beijing office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He leads the firm's banking and finance practice in mainland China. David has worked for over 20 years in Australia, England and China (including Hong Kong) in the areas of corporate finance, acquisition finance and the debt capital markets. In recent years he has been in the forefront of developments in the China financial markets and has a particular interest in the bond and derivative markets. He has assisted clients in the establishment of financial services businesses in China and advises on product development and regulatory compliance. David brings to his practice significant commercial experience, having been one of the firm's national managing partners for several years and, prior to that, national head of the banking and finance team. He is consistently ranked as one of the region’s leading debt capital market and banking and finance lawyers.
22) Wang Nan, Vice President and Senior Counsel, Marriott International
Nan Wang is an attorney in the law department of Marriott International. Working from its Hong Kong regional office, he provides legal services in respect of hotel development and operation projects for various Marriott hotel brands in Asia Pacific, with a special focus on mainland China. Prior to joining Marriott in 2003, Nan worked as in-house counsel at NCR in Hong Kong; as private practitioner at O'Melveny & Myers in Hong Kong; and at Stikeman Elliott in Hong Kong and Montreal. He has over sixteen years of legal experience accumulated from working in multi-cultural environments. His special fields of practice include foreign direct investment, technology transfer, franchising and real estate development. Nan is a member of the New York State Bar and of the Barreau du Québec.
23) Martin Hu, Senior Partner, Martin Hu & Partners
Martin Hu is the founding partner of Martin Hu & Partners (the MHP Law Firm). Mr. Hu has been retained by many multinational companies as lead counsel for their major projects from the planning to the closing stage, in connection with foreign direct investment, mergers & acquisitions, business restructuring and other complex corporate and commercial projects since mid 1990s. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Corporate Law Committee of Shanghai Bar Association, and Vice-Chair of the Young Lawyer Committee of Shanghai Bar Association. In 2008, he was elected to the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (the top political advisory body in China). In 2008 he received the “Top Ten Young Lawyers in Shanghai Award”. His clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Philips, Danone, Henkel, 3M and Takashimaya, as well as other industry leaders listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and other stock exchanges. He is admitted to practice in both China and the USA (Ohio).
24) Elaine Lo, Asia Chair & Senior Partner, JSM
Elaine Lo is chair of the Asia board and senior partner of JSM. She specializes in foreign direct investment into China, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, structuring joint ventures, technology transfers and corporate restructuring. Elaine has been involved in many industry sectors in China, particularly in banking, financial services, energy, water, utilities, infrastructure and telecommunications. She has extensive experience of acting for government authorities, project sponsors, lenders and equity participants in project finance deals as well as advising banks and financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions, asset and project finance. Elaine is a China Appointed Attesting Officer (appointed by the Ministry of Justice of the PRC).
25) Anthony Root, Managing Partner, Beijing and Hong Kong Office, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Anthony Root is the head of Milbank’s corporate practice in Asia and is the managing partner of the firm’s Beijing and Hong Kong offices. He has over 25 years’ experience working with investment banks, financial investors and companies across a range of practice areas. Anthony has been active throughout his career in public and private M&A and private equity work in the US and Asia. He represented China Construction Bank in its strategic sales to Bank of America and Morgan Stanley in the formation of China International Capital Corporation (CICC). Anthony engaged in bankruptcy and workout practice in the US before moving to Asia in 1993 and has worked on cross-border debt and equity restructurings for more than two decades. He is currently involved in restructurings of private financings in China. He also has extensive experience leading high yield and equity offerings representing issuers and all major underwriters.
26) Grant Tao, Lead Commercial Counsel, Motorola
Based in Beijing, Grant Tao is currently the Lead Commercial Counsel for Motorola’s Home & Network business in North Asia. Before joining Motorola in 2006, Grant served as Vice President & Senior Legal Counsel for CA (formerly Computer Associates Inc), covering legal affairs in Japan and Korea from 2005 to 2006, and as Senior Legal Counsel for Reuters covering Japan and Greater China from 1999 to 2003. Prior to his in-house career, Grant practised law with a Vancouver-based law firm in Canada. He speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Japanese and Cantonese. Grant is the current Chair of the Beijing In-house Counsel Network (BICN), a social networking platform where in-house counsel and private practitioners meet regularly. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Corporate Counsel Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), and Legal Adviser for special legal research projects to the China Large Enterprises Federation.
27) Michael J Moser, Chairman, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
Michael J Moser is an international attorney and arbitrator who specializes in China matters. He is chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, vice president of APRAG, a court member of the London Court of International Arbitration and a board member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. He is also a commission member of CIETAC and was the first foreigner to be appointed an arbitrator in China. He is the author of many books and articles and is the general editor of the Journal of International Arbitration. He practices as an arbitrator with 20 Essex Street Chambers in London and is a consultant to O'Melveny and Myers in Hong Kong and Beijing. Resident in China for 30 years, Michael speaks and reads Chinese. In 2006, Chambers awarded Michael its Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in arbitration in Asia.
28) Peter Zhang, General Counsel and Board Secretary, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Peter Zhang is general counsel and board secretary of Sony Ericsson China, where he leads the China legal department and supports a diverse range of operational and legal matters. He has more than 17 years' experience as an in-house counsel in China, having previously served in in-house roles for Unilever, Ericsson and Yahoo. He has also practised in a Hong Kong law firm. Peter has a wide range of responsibilities and expertise, including M&A, compliance, antitrust and competition, trade and commerce, litigation and arbitration, risk management and control, commercial negotiation, product quality, employment and IP protection. He has, on various occasions, participated in the drafting of legislation from the point of view of industry, and is active in lobbying in the legislative process.
29) James Zimmerman, Partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey
James Zimmerman is a partner in the Beijing office of Squire Sanders & Dempsey. He is chairman emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and was elected and served as that organization’s chairman for two terms (2007, 2008). Zimmerman’s day-to-day work involves helping businesses to overcome the complexities of doing business in China, which often involves obtaining government approvals and/or seeking government support to enhance or modify current legal and regulatory provisions and practice. James is the author of several books, chapters and articles concerning trade and China related issues. He is admitted to the bar of the state of California and is a registered foreign lawyer with the Chinese MOJ. He is on the panel of arbitrators for the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission and has acted as an arbitrator in China-related cases before the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.
30) Danny Chow, Country Head of Legal, Standard Chartered Bank
Danny Chow is head of legal for consumer banking at Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai. He has nearly 12 years’ in-house legal and compliance experience in banking and securities, with extensive experience in consumer banking, corporate banking and investment banking in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, he was the head of legal and compliance for Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Hong Kong, and the in-house counsel for Fubon Bank, following two years’ private practice in Hong Kong focusing on general commercial and corporate finance. He is a standing member of the legal committee of the China Banking Association in Beijing. Danny speaks fluent Chinese and English.
31) Wu Hao, Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, TCL Corporation
Wu Hao joined TCL Corporation in September 2001 as an in-house lawyer responsible for providing legal support for all company operations. He was promoted to head of the legal department and appointed the chief legal officer of TCL Corporation in 2009. Wu Hao attended Jiangxi Normal University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history. Following a successful teaching career in a financial college of the PLA General Logistics Department, he pursued post-graduate studies at the School of Law, Renmin University, where he received a JD degree. He passed the Chinese Bar Examination in 1994.
32) Philip Qu, Founding Partner, TransAsia Lawyers
Philip Qu is a founding partner of TransAsia Lawyers. He specializes in M&A, foreign direct investment, venture capital and private equity investments in the PRC. Philip has advised on a number of groundbreaking market entry initiatives as well as some of the largest M&A and financing transactions in China’s technology, media & telecoms (TMT) sectors to date. In addition to being the author of notable publications in the areas of M&A and TMT, Philip is regularly invited to speak at forums and conferences on these topics, and has advised key government agencies on TMT-related legislative matters.
33) Anthony Zhao, Senior Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Anthony Zhao is a senior partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm in Shanghai. His practice focuses on private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and restructuring and foreign direct investment, with particular expertise in advising on transactions that combine both offshore and onshore structures. Mr Zhao has extensive experience in a broad range of industrial sectors in China, including telecommunications, media, technology and entertainment; education, healthcare and other specialized services; retail, logistics and distribution; energy, natural resources, infrastructure and real estate; consumer products and industrial manufacturing. He is admitted to practise law in China and New York State, and was an associate with Paul Weiss in New York and Hong Kong before he joined Zhong Lun in 2003. He was a member of All-China Youth Federation (the Ninth National Congress).
