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Mr Ian Lewis

+86 10 6599 9266 ian.lewis@mayerbrown.com

Work Department

Corporate & Securities.

Position

Ian Lewis is a partner of Mayer Brown. He has over 28 years experience gained in several Asian jurisdictions and has been based in Beijing since 2002. Prior to that, he has spent time in Vietnam, Thailand and Hong Kong. He is currently Partner-in-Charge of the Beijing office.

Ian has significant China commercial, real estate and hospitality experience and has a particular focus on entertainment, attraction development and commercial arrangements relating thereto. Ian is also a regular conference speaker on real estate, hotel and hospitality related topics.

Over his years in Asia, Ian has had experience of negotiating large cross-broader transactions and these have included infrastructure projects, joint ventures and other investment arrangements using a broad range of structures, many of which have involved complex regulatory issues. Ian is recognised as Recommended Corporate/M&A Lawyer in the 2012 Editorial of Legal 500 Asia Pacific. He was named as a Highly Recommended Project Finance Lawyer in 2006-2008 & 2011 and a Highly Recommended Projects Lawyer in 2002, 2003 and 2005 by PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook. Legal 500 Asia Pacific also listed him as a Leading Projects Lawyer in 2002-2005.

Career

Admitted in England and Wales and Hong Kong.

Languages

English.

Education

Aberystrwyth, University College Wales, LLB; Law Society Final Examinations obtained from the Law Society’s College of Law Guildford.