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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

TWIN TOWERS - WEST, 12B JIANGUOMEN WAI DA JIE, CHAOYANG DISTRICT, BEIJING 100022, CHINA

What we say about the firm's legal practice in China

Corporate & M&A

Within Foreign firms, tier 4

Li Li joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as Beijing office director from the Shanghai office of Debevoise & Plimpton, where she was a corporate partner. The practice represented a PRC conglomerate in connection with the proposed acquisition of a major hotel resort development in Southeast Asia. A Hong Kong law practice was launched in 2011, and Freeman Chan joined from Norton Rose Hong Kong’s Hong Kong office, where he led its China corporate finance practice. Beijing-based Megan Tang is a key contact, and Hong Kong-based Michael Preston is well regarded.

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The international firms also poached from their rivals; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Beijing office welcomed Li Li from Debevoise & Plimpton’s Shanghai office; and corporate lawyers Thomas Man and Brad Herrold joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in Beijing from Hogan Lovells International LLP. In Shanghai, Michael Chin joined Hogan Lovells International LLP] from [Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

Private equity/venture capital

Within Foreign firms, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is a third tier firm,

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP welcomed Li Li as Beijing office director from Debevoise & Plimpton’s Shanghai office. In Hong Kong, Clayton Johnson and Michael Preston represented TPG in its investment in China International Capital Corporation, the first foreign private equity investment in a Chinese securities firm.


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