China

Red-Flagging China: Regulators Eye Chinese Companies Using Reverse Mergers to Enter US

Illustration by Viktor Koen There’s more than one way for a company to get listed on U.S. public exchanges. The most traditional is the initial public offering, where a private company works with an underwriter to determine what type of security to issue, the best offering price and when to…

Oct 1, 2011 8:40 AM CDT

Kirkland & Ellis on Hiring Spree in Asia

Hoping to further capitalize on growing demand for mergers and acquisitions work in Asia, Kirkland & Ellis announced Wednesday that it is bringing in eight lawyers for its Hong Kong office. The firm plans to expand to 50 lawyers in Asia, most of them fluent in Mandarin Chinese, according to…

Aug 10, 2011 11:06 AM CDT

Ogier Becomes First Offshore Firm to Secure Formal Presence in Mainland China

Ogier has tapped Kristy Calvert, who previously headed mining giant Rio Tinto’s legal department, to launch an office in Shanghai, making it the first offshore firm to secure a formal presence, according to Legal Week. The new office, which is expected to work closely with the firm’s 40-lawyer office in…

Jul 5, 2011 11:43 AM CDT

Google Warns Gmail Users, Says China-Based Hackers are Reading High-Profile Content

Likely due to their falling for phishing schemes, a number of Gmail users are subject to having their email read by China-based hackers, Google Inc. is warning. In an Official Google Blog post today alerting Gmail users to be careful about security, the company says it has detected such schemes…

Jun 1, 2011 11:05 PM CDT

Suit Accuses Cisco of Aiding Chinese Repression Through Sale of Internet Tracking Software

Cisco Systems Inc. is accused in a lawsuit of aiding torture and repression in China through sales of surveillance software to the Chinese government. The suit was filed by members of the persecuted spiritual group Falun Gong, report the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). The…

May 23, 2011 11:25 AM CDT

Following Clients and ‘Flow of Capital,’ Clifford Chance Focuses on Asia

Like other renowned London-based international law firms, Clifford Chance is rethinking its focus and expects Asia to be a bigger part of its future. Of 23 new partners elected recently, more than half are Asia-based, reports the Financial Times. “We as a law firm like to follow clients but also…

May 5, 2011 8:46 PM CDT

Harvard Law Fellow Is New Leader of Tibetan Government in Exile

Harvard Law School fellow Lobsang Sangay has won election as the new prime minister of Tibet’s government in exile. Sangay, 43, won with 55 percent of the vote, according to the Harvard Crimson, a Harvard Law School press release and the BBC. The election follows the Dalai Lama’s announcement that…

May 2, 2011 10:30 AM CDT

Simpson Thacher Poaches China Leaders from UK Magic Circle Firms for New Hong Kong Practice

New York-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has had an office in Hong Kong since 1993. But, until now, it only practiced United States law there. That will soon change, following the firm’s raid on two top United Kingdom-based firms to poach practice leaders for a new Hong Kong practice, reports…

Apr 29, 2011 9:12 PM CDT

Harvard Law Fellow Is Likely Winner of Election to Lead Tibetan Exile Government

Harvard Law School fellow Lobsang Sangay may soon have a new position—as leader of the Tibetan government in exile. Sangay is favored to win the election for Tibetan prime minister that was held Sunday, the Boston Globe reports. The results won’t be announced until late April. Sangay has never been…

Mar 24, 2011 10:30 AM CDT

Harvard Professor Announces Launch of Project to Study Impact of Emerging Economies on Lawyers

David B. Wilkins, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on where the legal profession is headed, received the outstanding scholar award Saturday from the fellows of the American Bar Foundation. But the Harvard Law School professor is hardly about to rest on his laurels. Instead, Wilkins used the occasion of…

Feb 13, 2011 7:57 AM CST

Quarles & Brady Opens First Foreign Office, in Shanghai

In operation in Milwaukee for almost 120 years, Quarles & Brady has been a rapidly expanding presence in Arizona and Chicago in recent years. Now the 450-attorney firm is planting its flag on foreign soil for the first time. After establishing a China practice group in 2007, it is opening…

Jan 20, 2011 9:11 PM CST

Breaking China

WTO complaint could end the ‘Great Firewall’ Internet ban

Nov 1, 2010 9:10 AM CDT

Jailed Chinese Dissident Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo probably won’t be told that he is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, his wife observes, and it’s unclear how he will receive the $1.46 million prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is recognizing Liu for his “his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human…

Oct 8, 2010 11:29 AM CDT

Hong Kong Is Law Firm Battleground, Davis Polk Partner Says

Seventeen lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardwell were among the record 224 lawyers who took the Hong Kong bar exam last year. Davis Polk partner William Barron was one of them, Bloomberg reports. “Hong Kong has become the battleground for the world’s law firms,” Barron told the wire service. “This…

Jul 8, 2010 2:38 PM CDT

Travel Agent’s Input Led to New Houston Office for Blank Rome

Blank Rome uses one agency to make arrangements for lawyers traveling on business. So when the firm was deciding where to focus its latest expansion efforts, it sought input from the Lawyers Travel Service, co-chairman Alan Hoffman tells the Law & Finance blog of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The travel…

Jun 7, 2010 4:08 PM CDT