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Introduction to Hogan Lovells Worldwide

Hogan Lovells is a new global law firm created to provide high quality advice to corporations, financial institutions and governmental entities across the full spectrum of their critical business and legal issues globally and locally. Bringing together the combined strengths of our predecessor firms, we have over 2,500 lawyers operating out of more than 40 offices in the US, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Our practice breadth, geographical reach and industry knowledge provide us with insights into the issues that affect our clients deeply and enable us to provide high quality business-oriented legal advice to assist them in achieving their commercial goals.

Europe

Hogan Lovells has a substantial and long established presence in Europe with 16 offices and two associated offices in twelve jurisdictions across the region. With over 1,200 lawyers across Europe, Hogan Lovells advises major corporations, financial institutions and public sector organizations on a wide range of business transactions, disputes and advisory matters both within and across jurisdictions.

The practice strengths include corporate, finance, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration, employment, antitrust and real estate. We also adopt an industry sector focus, providing a deep knowledge of sectors including automotive, energy and natural resources, infrastructure, financial institutions, life sciences and healthcare, telecommunications, media and technology, and transportation.

Clients benefit from our comprehensive geographical reach in Europe, our market and industry knowledge and the breadth and depth of resources to handle their most challenging domestic and multi-jurisdictional matters across the region.

North America

Hogan Lovells' North America practice serves its clients in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and throughout the world through an integrated network of 14 regional offices. More than 800 of the firm's 2,500 lawyers are based in North America, enabling us to offer our clients a full spectrum of legal services backed by high-level local and industry-specific knowledge. We represent domestic and international companies in a wide range of business transactions, disputes, and advisory matters. Our lawyers are leaders in their fields, providing the depth and insight needed to handle complex, precedent-setting matters across multiple practice areas and jurisdictions. The firm is consistently ranked in the top tier of North American legal providers by Chambers USA and The Legal 500, and have been honored by leading publications in every major market we serve.

Latin America

Hogan Lovells' Latin America practice serves corporations, governments, and other entities planning to establish or increase their presence in this dynamic market, as well as local entities seeking to expand into other parts of the world. Hogan Lovells is one of the few firms able to provide counsel that is keenly attuned to the region's business customs, civil law system, and political landscape, while at the same time leveraging the knowledge and resources of a market-leading global law firm.

The group includes multicultural lawyers from its offices in Miami, Caracas, Washington, D.C., and New York who have strong backgrounds in corporate, business and regulatory law, arbitration, litigation, project finance, and energy. The firm offer services in Spanish, English, Italian, French, and Portuguese, and call upon longstanding relationships with highly regarded counsel throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to provide additional support as needed. Members of the group regularly receive top rankings from Chambers Latin America, Euromoney's Project Finance magazine, and Global Arbitration Review.

Africa

Africa is gaining increasing significance as one of the world's key emerging markets. Hogan Lovells regularly advises on a wide range of transactions in this region, including trade and export financing, debt restructuring, prefinancing, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, the establishment of investment funds, and capital markets. The firm also frequently acts for clients in international arbitrations and other forms of disputes in or relating to Africa, whether with private entities or state bodies. The firm has represented clients in both Anglophone and Francophone countries of Africa. Transactions in French-speaking and civil law countries are handled from their Paris office, where we have an in-depth practical knowledge of the unified legal system that applies in 16 sub-Saharan jurisdictions, the Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA) system.

Middle East

Hogan Lovells has a strong heritage of working with clients on in-bound and out-bound transactions throughout the Middle East. The firm has a team of over 30 lawyers, including 7 partners, based in Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices, who advise on finance and business transactions and commercial disputes for corporates, financial institutions and governmental entities across the region.

Sophisticated and insightful legal advice is coupled with a creative, commercial, and service-orientated approach to legal services. Clients rely on our in-depth business and legal knowledge and see us as long-term business partners in the Middle East.

Hogan Lovells operates in Saudi Arabia through an association with Al-Yaqoub Attorneys and Legal Advisers (AYALA). Hogan Lovells has seconded lawyers to AYALA's offices in Saudi Arabia. With a strong presence in Jeddah and Riyadh, AYALA is a leading full service firm in Saudi Arabia.

Asia

Hogan Lovells has made a significant commitment to servicing the legal and business needs of our clients in Asia for nearly 30 years. The firm has one of the strongest networks in Asia, with over 220 lawyers, including 35 partners, based in our eight offices in Beijing, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Ulaanbaatar and Singapore where we operate as a joint law venture with leading Singapore firm, Lee & Lee. We are the only international law firm with permanent representation in Ulaanbaatar through our association with GTs Advocates.

We regularly act on complex matters involving our clients' regulatory affairs, multi-jurisdictional transactions and business ventures as well as some of the most high-profile commercial disputes in the region. Demonstrative of this we received over 25 awards for our work in 2009.

Hogan Lovells in Asia has significant depth of legal knowledge and resource in many key industry sectors, including, financial services, TMT, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, real estate, natural resources and infrastructure.

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Hogan Lovells' offices in Greater China

Hogan Lovells has a long history in China and had been advising clients on doing business there since China's opening to the West almost 30 years ago. Hogan Lovells' Corporate, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment, and Regulatory practices in Greater China are considered outstanding in a range of independent surveys. We are one of the few international law firms in Greater China with genuine multi-disciplinary industry skills in the financial institutions, infrastructure, life sciences, real estate, technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors, in each of which we are recognized leaders in the field.

Hogan Lovells Beijing

One of the first five foreign law firms granted a licence in Beijing in 1992, Hogan Lovells Beijing office is now one of the largest of all Beijing-based international law firms. With four partners and 37 lawyers, Hogan Lovells' Beijing office provides local and international clients with a full service offering in relation to both outbound and inbound transactions.

Hogan Lovells Shanghai

One of the first international law firms to establish an office in China outside Beijing, Hogan Lovells opened the Shanghai office in 2003. With over 40 lawyers including four partners and four Of Counsels, Hogan Lovells now has one of the largest Shanghai offices of all international law firms, providing local and international clients with a full service offering for both outbound and inbound transactions, corporate and commercial advice, as well as intellectual property, construction and dispute resolution matters.

Hogan Lovells Hong Kong

Hogan Lovells is one of the largest full-service international law firms based in Hong Kong, providing our global clients with integrated legal advice on all aspects of doing business in the Asia-Pacific region. Since establishment in 1982, the Hong Kong office has been the platform for Hogan Lovells' regional expansion and network. We are also the sole Hong Kong member of the Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC), a unique strategic alliance within the global legal community, consisting of 32 major independent law firms, each with substantial presence and expertise in the Pacific Rim region. Hogan Lovells' Hong Kong office has more than 70 lawyers, including 17 partners and 10 consultants, offering strength and depth across the board.

As one of the few international law firms with an agency licence in China, Hogan Lovells operates a domestic intellectual property agency in Shanghai with a branch office in Beijing. The agency enables us to conduct all aspects of trademark and copyright matters directly for our clients. We directly handle trademark prosecution matters, represent clients in court appeals and carry out other enforcement matters.

Hogan Lovells regularly works with leading local law firms in China on a wide range of projects (we have a long standing co‑operation arrangement with the Chinese bar and the All China Lawyers Association). The firm also has established a strong relationship with the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission ("SASAC") which acts as the regulator and primary shareholder of China's State-owned enterprises, advising SASAC on structuring and supervising the legal departments of State-owned enterprises.

The Hogan Lovells' China team comprises 25 partners, 18 consultants and over 130 other lawyers in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong with significant experience and expertise across a wide range of practice areas including:

• Banking and finance
• Corporate: including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), equity and capital markets (ECM) and private equity
• Government and regulatory: including government relations, regulatory compliance and competition law
• Intellectual property, media and technology: including brand protection and enforcement, information technology and licensing agreement
• Litigation, arbitration and employment: including financial regulatory
• Projects, engineering and construction: including advising on build, operate and transfer infrastructure projects.
• Real estate: including land use rights, mortgages and structured investments
• Restructuring: including insolvency and distressed investments

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Recognised as a leader in the industry, Hogan Lovells' China practice has received numerous awards and nominations in the region in the past few years, including International Law Firm of the Year 2008 at the Asian Legal Business China Law Awards, China Foreign Firm of the Year for 2008 at the Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards, M&A Deal of the Year 2010 at the Asian Legal Business China Law Awards, Restructuring Deal of the Year at the China Law & Practice Awards 2009, and Asian Counsel Deal of the Year 2010.

Banking and Finance

• Advised several cross-border lending banks on the HK$2.8 billion onshore and offshore financing for the wholly-owned subsidiaries of a high-end residential property developer in Asia
• Advised a major investment bank on its HK$1 billion acquisition of serviced apartments business from a global asset management company
• Advised Nord Angila on it US$36 million private take-over by Baring Private Equity - deal was named Best leveraged Buyout Deal 2008 at the Asset Asia Awards 2008
• Advised PCCW on its US$2.1 billion proposed privatization - deal was shortlisted for M&A Deal of the Year at the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2009
• Advised a US import-bank on the US$37 million finance facility for a Philippines carrier to purchase aircraft

Corporate

• Advised GCL-Poly Energy on the US$3.4 billion acquisition of one of the world's leading suppliers of polysilicon and wafers to the solar industry - deal named ALB China M&A Deal of the Year 2010
• Advised ALSTOM on the public takeover of Wuhan Boiler, a PRC listed "B" share company including mandatory general offer - deal shortlisted for IFLR M&A Deal of the Year 2008
• Advised a global sports and entertainment presenter on its joint venture with a giant cultural company to operate and to manage the Shanghai World Expo Performing Arts Center
• Advised Citigroup Global Markets Asia Ltd and Macquarie Capital Securities Ltd on the HK$1 billion Hong Kong IPO by a Chinese mining company - deal was listed as finalist for Equity Deal of the year at ALB & Practice Awards and China Law Awards
• Advised the seller on the US$200 million sale of 92.7% of shares of a Chinese high-technology Company to one of the largest dedicated Equity firms, the largest foreign buyout ever in China

Dispute Resolution

• Represented nine Chinese Battery Companies and won a favourable ruling from US International Trade Commission in relation to an investigation initiated by two major battery companies over alleged patent infringement
• Won a major victory in the Chinese antidumping investigation of single-mode optical Fiber products originating from the US, Europe, Korea and Japan
• Advised a bathroom products designer and manufacturer on shareholders dispute from the minority shareholders. The case was eventually settled, resulting in Hogan Lovell's client acquiring the shareholdings of the other shareholder
• Assisted receivers in the tracing and recovery of assets of a listed company
• Represented a UK-headquartered bank in a professional negligence claim against surveyors and successfully negotiated a settlement with the insurers

Intellectual Property, Media and Technology

• Advised one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world on patent infringement actions in respect of a range of pharmaceutical products, This included the first case in which product registrations of generic manufacturers were deregistered as a result of the client's patent claims
• Advised a wireless telecommunications R&D company on global patent litigation actions regarding licence disputes with Nokia
• Advised an American multinational electronic designer and marketer on creating and impleting its product anti-counterfeiting strategy
• Advised a Chinese internet-based business on a range of IP, IT and e-commerce related services including data protection and issues
• Advised a global financial services company on the sale of Asian IT equitities to an international financial advisor involving complex IP and IT due diligence and negotiations with major IT providers
• Advised a global investment banking and securities firm on the outsourcing of Asian IT capabilities to Hewlett Packard

Real Estate and construction

• Advised a Chinese Property Developer on the sale of US$1.1 billion of certain real estate assets indirectly owned by two British virgin island companies
• Advised a private real-estate developerl on the development and operation of a ground break state-of-the-art ecological city project in Hunan, China
• Advised one of the world's largest real-estate investment manager on the US$400 million acquisition of a high-rise, mixed-use retail and office development project and a hotel complex project in China
• Advised a privately-held hotel investment group on the US$307 million acquisition of one of America's largest independent hotel management company, through a joint venture with a major hotel group in China
• Advised a Chinese real-estate property Developer on the US$234 million sale of property to an Asian private real estate fund

Business Restructuring and Insolvency

• Advised on the high profile group restructuring of a leading international watch and jewellery manufacturer with over 300 stores in China
• Advised a global transportation and logistics company, as well as a major real estate company on a mutli-billion dollar default
• Advised on multi-million dollar cross-jurisdictional joint venture dispute between Danone and Wahaha in relation their operations in the PRC
• Advised the LG Philips Group on its global restructuring involving outstanding liabilities of more than US$ 600 million \
• Advised on the collapse of Orient Power Holdings Limited and group of companies
• Advised a Chinese property developer on the US$200 million secured convertible notes in relation to playment defaults under the notes restoration of securities and a restructuring of the debt obligations under the notes
• Advised a Chinese holding company on the default of S$120 million notes
• Advised on the collapse of a Dutch wholly owned subsidiary of a major Indonesia bank

Projects, Engineering and Construction

• Advised onn the tender process, drafting project, documentation and dispute resolution in respect of the construction of a government-funded project
• Advised a government-owned oil and petroleum company on the joint venture with a London-based energy company to develop and operate an US$2.3 billion ethylene and chemical derivatives facility in Jinshan, Shanghai
• Advised on the US$430 million, 30 year built-operate-transfer government project in Beijing
• Advised an American environmental and engineering service consultant on various water projects in China, including transaction structure, regulatory and government approvals

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Short profiles of Hogan Lovells' partners and consultants in China

Beijing

Horace Lam

Horace is the managing partner of the Beijing office and the head of intellectual property practice. He practices in all areas of intellectual property work, contentious and non-contentious. He has extensive experience in advising on brand protection, litigation and enforcement actions. He has handled a large number of contentious copyright, patent and trade mark cases in Hong Kong and the PRC, particularly in relation to technology, telecommunication, computer and software products.

Michael Aldrich

Michael is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Beijing and has been seconded to GTs Advocates LLC as a consultant and advisor since 2009. He has devoted nearly all of his career to advising multinational corporations on their business transactions in Asia, ranging from mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment projects, telecommunications, IPOs, mining and infrastructure, technology and IT as well as strategic business planning for Asian jurisdictions. He speaks English and Mandarin Chinese.

Thomas Man

Thomas is a corporate partner in Hogan Lovells' Beijing office. Thomas is a native of Shandong, China, but studied and worked in the US for nearly 20 years. He has extensive experience representing both foreign direct investors in China and Chinese enterprises investing abroad. His in-bound practice is concentrated on complex cross-border transactions involving M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, greenfield investments, research and development, manufacturing and distribution, technology transfer, reorganizations and divestitures. His work for Chinese enterprises includes out-bound investment and off-shore acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, anti-trust, countervailing duty, commercial secrets and product liability issues in the United States, Russia and other countries.

Jun Wei

Jun Wei is a partner in the Beijing office and a member of the board of Hogan Lovells. Her practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and project financing. She regularly advises multinational companies and financial institutions on how to best structure their proposed investments and operations in China to achieve economic objectives and deal expeditiously and successfully with Chinese regulatory agencies. She also represents clients in a wide array of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, financings, infrastructure development, and company restructurings. Jun previously served in the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Chinese National People's Congress.

Brad Herrold

Brad has lived and worked in Beijing for 15 years. He advises multinational clients on corporate and commercial law issues in China, with a focus on private acquisitions. Brad regularly provides structuring advice on complex transactions and other foreign direct investment and trade matters and advises on regulatory issues related to approval and registration procedures, foreign exchange control, land use rights, technology transfers, labour, product registration, corruption, anti-trust, dispute resolution and divestment.

Clifford Borg-Marks

Clifford Borg-Marks is Of Counsel of Hogan Lovells in Beijing. Cliff specialises in all aspects of intellectual property acquisition and protection in China, including IP due diligence in connection with mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer, treatment of employee inventions, clearance of trademarks for commercial use, IP litigation, etc. Cliff has successfully lobbied the PRC authorities on various IP matters including conflicts between registered trademarks and design patents, the unauthorized use of trademarks on automobile service centers, and administrative enforcement against software piracy on grounds other than copyright.

Adrian Ernch

Adrian Emch practises antitrust, regulatory and trade law, with a particular focus on matters related to the European Union and to China. Adrian has broad experience in all aspects of competition law, including merger control, multi-jurisdictional merger filings, cartel investigations and antitrust counseling, including in relation to China's Anti-Monopoly Law. He also advises on legal aspects of China-Latin American trade and investment. He joins from Sidley Austin in Beijing, and prior to that, he completed an internship with the Directorate-General of Competition at the European Commission and was in private practice in Brussels in the field of competition law.

Roy Zou

Roy Zou has worked actively on many client matters, including merger and acquisition transactions,the creation of joint ventures, market entry, and international trade. Roy has extensive experience in directing legal and financial due diligence reviews of Chinese companies for multinational corporations and investors. He deals regularly with approval authorities and other government regulators and agencies in connection with commercial transactions. Roy also assisted in a number of U.S. litigations involving Chinese companies or governments agencies as respondents or defendants. Roy previously worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China for seven years. Serving in the General Office and the Department of Treaty and Law, he was involved in the documentation and negotiation of many important bilateral and multilateral issues.

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Shanghai

Douglas Clark

Douglas is the partner in charge of Hogan Lovells' intellectual property practice in Mainland China. He is based in Shanghai and is the managing partner of Hogan Lovells' Shanghai office and also a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office. He has been practising intellectual property law in China since 1993 when he joined Hogan Lovells' Hong Kong office. Douglas moved to Shanghai in 2000 to establish the firm's intellectual property practice in China. He has handled over 2,000 patent, trade mark, copyright and passing off / unfair competition cases. In recent years his personal focus has been on patent cases and he has handled numerous patent cases relating to pharmaceutical and telecommunications patents. He also has coordinated numerous cross border litigation cases covering North East Asia.

Andrew McGinty

Andrew has broad experience advising on PRC-related corporate and commercial matters, private and public M&A, joint ventures and other foreign investment projects, with a focus on real estate, telecoms, technology / IT and competition. Andrew is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, French and English and speaks intermediate Spanish. Whilst his current practice focuses on China, Andrew also has extensive experience with international corporate and commercial matters, as well as offshore listings, M&A and infrastructure-related transactions.

Geoffrey Lin

Geoffrey is an intellectual property attorney and licensed US patent attorney based in Hogan Lovells' Shanghai office. His practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters in China, as well as on a regional and worldwide basis. He advises clients on obtaining, protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, as well as on licensing and technology transfers. He has litigated numerous high-profile technical patent cases in China and the U.S. in various cases and matters and particularly in preparing, filing, supporting and defending patent infringement and invalidation actions.

Steven Robinson

Steve Robinson is a partner in Hogan Lovells' Beijing, Shanghai, and Washington D.C offices, and a member of our Corporate, Finance and Tax practice group. Steve focuses on securities and business transactions for U.S. and international clients. He advises U.S. and international clients in sophisticated public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and complex commercial transactions. Prior to joining the firm, Steve was a partner with a leading international law firm. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of FindLaw, Inc., a leading Internet site for legal research, and he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserves.

Eugene Chen

Eugene is a consultant based in Shanghai. Eugene has experience representing Asian and Western companies in all manners of US litigation and dispute resolution. He has defended large-scale product liability lawsuits related to the pharmaceutical industry and has counselled clients regarding US Food and Drug Administration regulations. He has also obtained dismissals and other successful resolutions to a number of consumer class action lawsuits. Eugene's general litigation practice also encompasses patent infringement litigation, construction defect claims, trademark and copyright issues, commercial contract and unfair competition disputes and quasi-criminal government investigations and forfeitures.

Philip Chen

Philip Cheng is Of Counsel in Hogan Lovells Shanghai office. He specialises in Corporate and Commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, company formations and reorganisations, and employment. He has been advising multinational corporations for 10 years in China and is particularly active in representing clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, chemicals, industrial products, real estate, financial, and hotel industries. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Philip practiced at other leading international firms including Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong and also served as legal counsel at Philips in Beijing. While his experience has primarily been in China, he has advised on multi-jurisdictional transactions within the Asia Pacific region, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, Indonesia and Australia.

Zhen Feng

Zhen is an intellectual property attorney at Hogan Lovells Shanghai and the General Manager for Hogan Lovells (Shanghai) Intellectual Property Agency Service Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hogan Lovells Hong Kong established in December 2007. She joined Hogan Lovells in 2003 and specialises in areas of trademark, copyright, patent and unfair competition. Her practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters in China. Zhen advises clients regularly on obtaining, protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights; the clients she represented are from a wide range of industries including electrical, pharmaceutical, software, medical devices, chemical, entertainment and consumer products.

Terence Wong

Terence is a consultant based in Hogan Lovells' Shanghai office. Terence focuses on delivering a complete package of legal services for the construction industry. He has acted for various employers, contractors, sub-contractors, and consultants for projects in China, Hong Kong and overseas countries. His practice experience includes advising on the establishment of investment vehicles with particular focus on the regulatory regime of the construction industry in China, drafting joint venture agreements, negotiating on the terms of construction contracts, managing the tendering process, and advising on disputes arising from the construction process.

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Hong Kong

Allan Leung

Allan Leung is Senior Partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong, and head of the Dispute Resolution Practice in Asia. Allan is a leading practitioner in Dispute Resolution and specialises in commercial litigation. He has over 20 years of experience dealing in a broad range of dispute work, including corporate commercial, banking, regulatory, judicial review, employment, defamation, environmental, product liability, cross-border contentious insolvency, fraud and asset recovery, and insurance related disputes. He regularly advises parties involved in PRC - related disputes..

Jamie Barr

Jamie is head of the Asia corporate practice. He has substantial experience as a corporate finance lawyer with leading firms in Hong Kong and England and, for six years, as an investment banker with Hambros Bank. Jamie has worked on a range of corporate and corporate finance matters including privatisations, IPOs, mergers, demergers, takeovers, equity fund raising, joint ventures and M&A transactions. He has particular experience of energy, power and natural resources and private equity. He has advised governments on privatisations in the UK, Greece and Romania. He has also advised many leading investment banks, blue chip corporates and private equity firms on domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions in Asia, Europe and trans-Atlantic.

Owen Chan

Owen is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He is a banking and finance lawyer whose practice has a focus on cross border transactions in Hong Kong and mainland China. With more than 13 years' experience based in the Hong Kong and mainland China markets and being a native Mandarin speaker, Owen advises a range of financial institutions and investment intermediaries on structured finance involving lending and security issues in Hong Kong and mainland China, including acquisition finance and trade finance. Owen also advices on banking regulatory and insolvency issues in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Chris Dobby

Chris is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution, acting for financial institutions, multi-nationals, insolvency practitioners, court appointed administrators and receivers in respect of a wide range of cross border commercial, professional negligence and fraud related disputes, investigations and asset recovery actions. In respect of insolvency, Chris has advised and acted for liquidators in respect of many substantial corporate collapses, including Hong Kong's largest corporate collapse involving creditor debt of over US$1 billion.

Tim Fletcher

Tim Fletcher is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He is a corporate finance lawyer who enjoys a wide practice, embracing global and regional clients. Tim has over 16 years experience based in the Asian markets. Particular areas of focus are first, clients and a practical, commercial and proactive response to their diverse needs. Tim's major areas of practice are: M&A, including public company takeovers and private transactions for corporates and institutions, including venture capital and private equity investors; financial services, including advising insurance and funds clients, intermediaries and advisers on both regulatory and transactional matters; and securities, including primary and secondary market transactions for sponsors, issuers and sophisticated investors such as hedge funds.

James Fong

James is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He has substantial experience as a corporate finance lawyer, advising sponsors and issuers on a number of Hong Kong IPOs. Throughout his career, he has also worked on different types of corporate finance matters including block trade, private equities, listing of exchange traded funds, partial offer, joint ventures and regulatory compliance.

Gabriela Kennedy

Gabriela Kennedy is a partner in the Intellectual Property, Media and Technology Group of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong, practising intellectual property law, media, information technology and telecommunications law. Gabriela has handled all aspects of intellectual property work including enforcement, licensing and registration work. Gabriela has advised extensively on data protection issues in Hong Kong, in particular in relation to large outsource projects, and business process outsourcing focusing on the cross-border transfer of data and regulatory compliance for various industry sectors. On the information technology side, Gabriela's particular expertise includes IT outsourcing, issues stemming from cloud-computing, smart card projects, the regulation of encryption technology, software licensing, as well as disputes stemming from failed IT projects, or disputes relating to mod-chips and anti-circumvention devices. Gabriela speaks a number of languages fluently, including English, French, Spanish and Romanian and has a working knowledge of Italian and Portuguese.

Gary Hamp

Gary Hamp is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong and also head of the Hong Kong Banking practice. Gary has extensive experience in Asia and Europe advising on a wide variety of financing transactions. Gary specialises in acquisition and leveraged finance, trade finance, real estate finance and debt restructurings and workouts. Recently Gary has advised on a number of cross border financings involving PRC based entities. He has advised a number of financial institutions on the financing of high value, high profile cross border M&A transactions with particular experience of advising on acquisitions of listed companies. Gary advises a number of financial institutions, corporates and private equity sponsors including a large number of investment and commercial banks based in Hong Kong.

Timothy Hill

Tim is the head of the projects, engineering and construction group in Asia. He is based in Hong Kong, where he has lived for over 20 years. Tim has extensive experience in relation to advisory work in the construction industry and construction disputes. In his practice, Tim has considered most of the issues which commonly arise in the industry, particularly with regard to change of control, and timing and investment issues. He has also considered many issues of contractual construction, including problems arising from ground conditions and design issues and many standard form and bespoke forms of contract. Tim has advised on numerous matters relating to claims and potential claims arising in respect of construction contracts executed in Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, Singapore and Taiwan.

Terence Lau

Terence is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He has a broad range of commercial and corporate finance practice and has particular experience in equity offerings, IPOs, M&A, private equity, share repurchases and regulatory and compliance matters. His areas of practice include joint ventures and schemes of arrangement.

Man Chiu Lee

Man Chiu Lee's practice covers a broad range of transactions, including securities offerings, private equity and venture capital, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and banking. Prior to joining the firm in March 2007, Man Chiu worked for other international law firms, representing issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings in the United States and Hong Kong. His experience also includes representing issuers, underwriters, and other parties in connection with the structuring, issuance, and distribution of asset-backed securities and derivative financial products; the issuance of straight debt; convertible bonds; and Tier II Capital and securitization of credit card receivables and residential mortgage backed receivables.

Mark Lin

Mark is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He specialises in all kinds of commercial dispute resolution work, with a focus on disputes relating to the corporate and financial services sectors, including regulatory investigations and contentious regulatory work. Mark is experienced in handling cross border disputes, including international arbitrations and multi jurisdiction litigation. Mark is an advocate and has acted as counsel for clients in a number of international arbitrations. He has also acted for the Law Society as a prosecutor in disciplinary proceedings.

Neil McDonald

Neil is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong and the head of Business Restructuring and Insolvency practice in Asia. He has been involved in a wide range of matters in Asia and Australia in respect of the restructuring and insolvency of distressed companies. Neil acts for financial institutions, insolvency appointment holders, turnaround management firms, hedge funds and private equity firms. Neil advises clients on all aspects of financial distress including consensual workouts, liquidations, receiverships and other enforcement options including litigation. He also advises clients on the proprietary acquisition of distressed businesses and assets, including by debt trading on the secondary market.

Kelly Naphtali

Kelly is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. She has extensive experience in borrower default actions and litigation at all stages of the insolvency and restructuring of distressed companies. Kelly's experience includes urgent actions to protect and preserve assets, including applications to appoint provisional liquidators, receivers and managers and applications to freeze assets. Kelly has advised on numerous issues relating to debt recovery and insolvency proceedings, including shareholder disputes, breach of duty by directors and officers and fraud. She also has experience in the process for creditor and court approval of restructuring through schemes of arrangement and other modes of compromise.

Damon So

Damon is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong. He initially qualified as a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer. Since qualification as a solicitor Damon has undertaken a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious construction work and has had occasion to consider many of the issues which typically arise in respect of various construction projects. His contentious work includes a large amount of litigation and arbitration, acting for statutory bodies, employers, contractors, consultants and insurers, in respect of building and civil projects. His non-contentious work includes advising and drafting construction, consultancy and other related contracts for employers, contractors and consultants in respect of a number of building and civil projects using different forms of contract

Henry Wheare

Henry is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh offices, and heads the Asia Intellectual Property practice. His practice covers all areas of intellectual property, including contentious and non-contentious matters relating to trade marks, copyright, patents and designs, confidential information and technology transfer. He also advises on competition law, intellectual property rights management, entertainment and licensing. Henry has practised intellectual property law for some 33 years. He advises international companies on Asia regional and global brand management; is engaged in complex technical patent and copyright cases; and handles cross border IP disputes. He is regularly consulted on behalf of film, music recording, broadcasting and computer industry groups in relation to developing intellectual property issues, especially in relation to copyright and the digital agenda.

Deanna Wong

Deanna Wong is a partner of Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong and Hogan Lovells Shanghai Intellectual Property Service Co. She first qualified in New Zealand (with a law degree and a science degree in biochemistry and genetic molecular biology) and has been in Hong Kong since 1999. Deanna's practice focuses on the international aspect of the firm's IP asset management, commercial exploitation, development and enforcement of different types of intellectual property rights. She is also responsible for the Hogan Lovells non-contentious registration practice in Greater China.

Stanely Boots

Stanley Boots is a consultant of Hogan Lovells Hong Kong office. He holds a regional role servicing clients on cross-regional energy and infrastructure projects. In addition to traditional thermal power projects, Stanley has broad experience with renewable power projects including wind, hydropower and geothermal. He is recognised as one of the leading carbon markets lawyers in the region, having been active with carbon market investments and transactions globally since 2005.

Jason Choi

Jason is a consultant specialising on conveyancing and other property related works and has extensive experience in acting for developers in their acquisition, sale and leasing of residential and commercial developments.

Andrew Cobden

Andrew Cobden is a consultant specialising in patent law. Andrew worked at Hogan Lovells in London for 17 years, handling matters in all areas of IP law but with particular focus on patent litigation. In 2003 he moved to Hogan Lovells' Tokyo office and in 2007 he transferred to Hogan Lovells' Hong Kong office. He has advised on European litigation and commercial IP matters including those involving patents, trade marks, copyright, registered designs and design rights and trade secrets. Andrew has undertaken a substantial amount of work on patent actions involving complex biotechnological, pharmaceutical, chemical and electrical patents. He has extensive experience handling multi-jurisdiction disputes in countries in Europe. Andrew also advises on licensing and transferring intellectual property rights.

Cindy Kao

Cindy is a consultant senior associate in our corporate team based in Hong Kong. She specialises in international securities offerings, initial public offerings and M&A transactions, including private equity investments. Cindy advises underwriters and issuers with respect to securities offerings in major securities markets. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Cindy worked with Baker & McKenzie's Taipei and Hong Kong offices.

Bryan O'Hare

Bryan is a consultant in the Hogan Lovells Hong Kong office. He has over 10 years of experience practising commercial and insolvency litigation in Hong Kong. He has acted in several of the most high profile and high value cases in Hong Kong in the last decade from the Court of First Instance to the Court of Final Appeal. These cases have usually involved complex legal and factual issues related to corporate fraud, shareholder disputes and director's liability. Bryan generally acts for listed companies, investment banks, insurance and reinsurance companies and insolvency appointment holders. He has a thorough knowledge of all stages of the litigation process (including post judgment enforcement issues) which he combines with a commercial and practical approach to dispute resolution.

Thomas Tarala

Thomas is a consultant and U.S. securities specialist with over 10 years of experience advising on corporate finance transactions. His clients have included underwriters and issuers in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the PRC and Hong Kong. Thomas has extensive experience in both equity capital markets transactions - including IPOs, secondary offers, private placements and venture capital - and debt capital markets deals - such as medium-term note programmes, structured note programmes, high-yield bonds and securitisation. Thomas speaks English, French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

Allan Wardrop

Allan is a consultant in the International Finance - Banking team in Hogan Lovells' Hong Kong office. Prior to joining the Hong Kong office, Allan worked in the banking team in Hogan Lovells' London office for close to seven years. Allan specialises in leveraged finance, acting both for banks and private equity houses, but also has broad experience in property finance, investment grade lending, private equity bridge and CFO financing, and restructuring. Allan has also completed secondments to Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. and Lloyds Banking Group, gaining a practical understanding of internal processes of large banking institutions.

Simon Yu

Simon Yu is a consultant in our Financial Institution Group within the Corporate Practice in Hong Kong. Simon has experience in private equity and M&A transactions, and other forms of investments in Hong Kong companies. Simon advises participants in the fund, insurance and banking industries on transactions and securities laws and other regulatory and compliance matters.

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•(a) Contact Hogan Lovells in China

 

Beijing Office

Tel: +86 10 6582 9488
Fax: +86 10 6582 9499

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Hong Kong Office

Tel: +852 2219 0888
Fax: +852 2219 0222

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