Contact: Steven L. Toronto, Charles C. Comey, or Venantius Tan
Morrison & Foerster regularly represents both large multinational companies as well as small and medium-sized companies in
respect of their direct investment activities in China. With a presence in China that goes back 20 years, we have participated
in the variety of investment activities that have been part of the opening up and development of China’s economy. We have
more than 50 practitioners in our Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai offices that enable us to assist clients in all areas of
investment in China, including direct investment structures, joint venture negotiations, intellectual property protection
and technology transfer issues, foreign exchange control, relevant labor and tax law, other PRC regulatory and approval matters,
holding company structuring, mergers and acquisitions of PRC foreign invested enterprises and PRC-related capital market transactions.
Representative international clients include UPS, Kodak, Proctor & Gamble, Wal-Mart, Newell Rubbermaid, General Motors, Pearson
Broadband, Bombardier, Fujitsu, Seiko Epson, Electrolux, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Gartner Group, among others.
We have bilingual attorneys that have extensive experience in China and are internationally trained with many having received
training directly in PRC law. Our members of staff include highly trained bi-lingual legal assistants, translators and secretaries
that support the work of our attorneys. We are particularly fortunate to have two Hong Kong based PRC trained partners who
have extensive experience in legal structuring and approval issues related to foreign investment projects in China, which
provides us with key insight into regulatory issues and investment approval processes. Our offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and
Shanghai, work together seamlessly to provide the full range of our individual attorney’s expertise and to provide attorneys
in close proximity to where investment activities in China are taking place. Our China-based team is supported by other professionals
in Morrison & Foerster offices throughout the United States and around the world.
