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Introduction

With over 1,800 lawyers -- including over 350 partners -- operating from 27 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, Lovells is a top-quality international legal practice, focused on the commercial and legal needs of its clients around the world. Lovells advises many of the world's largest corporations, financial institutions and governmental organisations and regularly acts on complex, multijurisdictional transactions, as well as some of the most high-profile commercial disputes.

Lovells has a long history in China and has been advising clients on doing business there since China's opening to the West almost 30 years ago. Lovells established an office in Hong Kong in 1982, and we were one of the first five foreign law firms to be licensed to open an office in Beijing in 1992. We were also among the first international law firms approved to establish a second office in Mainland China, which we opened in Shanghai in 2003 following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Our China offices have a large number of lawyers fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Russian, German and other Asian and European languages.

Lovells has established a strong relationship with the State-owned 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.

Recognised as a leader in the industry, Lovells' China practice has received numerous awards and nominations in the region in 2007 and 2008, 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 2007 at the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia Awards, Best China Deal at the 2007 FinanceAsia Achievement Awards and the International Law Office Client Choice Award for our Hong Kong office.

The Lovells' China team comprises 18 partners, 15 consultants and over 100 other lawyers in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong with significant experience and expertise across a wide range of practice areas including:

• Banking and finance
• Competition law (anti-monopoly law)
• Corporate: including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), equity and capital markets (ECM) and private equity
• Dispute resolution: including regulatory and international arbitration
• Intellectual property, media and technology: including brand protection and enforcement, information technology and licensing agreement
• Real estate: including land use rights, mortgages and structured investments
• Restructuring: including insolvency and distressed investments
• Projects, engineering and construction: including advising on build, operate and transfer infrastructure projects.

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Key deals for each practice area

Banking and Finance

• Advised Mizuho Corporate Bank and UBS on the financing of the €800 million acquisition of the AZ Materials Group by Vestar Capital Partners and The Carlyle Group, which has business throughout the Asia Pacific region, including in Taiwan and Korea
• Advised Mizuho Corporate Bank on financing for the acquisition of First Engineering Plastics, a business with operations throughout Singapore, Malaysia and China
• Advised Ares Capital Europe Limited and Lloyds TSB Bank plc on €100 million MBO of the EMEA subsidiaries of Italian sportswear company, Fila. The management team was backed by equity investment from Barclays Ventures and the Batca Group. The MBO involved a complex multi-jurisdictional acquisition structure, which required input from Lovells' offices in London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid and Milan.
• Advised Mizuho Corporate Bank on €1.2 billion acquisition of Fitness First by BC Partners
• Advised SoftBank Group on its landmark refinancing, by securitisation, of the US$15 billion leverage buy-out acquisition of Vodafone Japan. This deal received FinanceAsia's M&A Deal of the Year, Best Deal of the Year and Securitisation Deal of the Year 2007

Corporate

• Advised SoftBank on the US$400 million senior redeemable convertible preferred and warrant from Oak Pacific Interactive
• Acted for ALSTOM on the acquisition of a 51% shareholding in Wuhan Boiler Company, the first acquisition by a foreign investor (with mandatory General Offer) of a majority stake in a B share listed company in China
• Advised Jana Partners LLC, a New York-based hedge fund, on their successful bid to acquire a 30% equity interest in Shenyang Machine Tools Group Co., Ltd., China's largest machine tool manufacturer for US$132 million (RMB 1.011 billion)
• Advised Morgan Stanley and UBS on the US$1.9 billion Hong Kong listing and Rule 144A placing of Country Garden. This is the largest ever IPO by a Chinese real estate developer in 2007 and received FinanceAsia's Best China Deal of the Year 2008
• Advised Morgan Stanley and UBS on the US$1 billion Hong Kong listing and Rule 144A placing of China Molybdenum
• Advised Bank of China International on US$300 million Hong Kong listing with Regulation S placing of Sichuan Xinhua Winshare, the first Hong Kong IPO by a Chinese bookstore chain

Dispute Resolution

• Acted for the majority shareholders of the AQUAmate Group (which is a major sanitary products manufacturer and exporter and owns large manufacturing plants in Mainland China) in a shareholders dispute with the minority shareholders
• Advised Towry Law on multi-jurisdictional legal and regulatory issues arising from the collapse of two Cayman hedge funds sold to over 1000 investors spread over 10 countries
• Advised Hong Kong Airport Authority in resisting judicial review in connection with the construction of aviation fuel tanks
• Acted for an international hotel management group in a CIETAC arbitration in Beijing between the hotel management group and hotel owners
• Acted for a major Fujian shipbuilder on a LMAA arbitration in its defence of a claim by a shipowner for breach of contract
• Acted for a Chinese contractor in an ad-hoc arbitration in Hong Kong in respect of claims for impossibility of performance

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Intellectual Property, Media and Technology

• Advised Anheuser-Busch, Adidas, Reebok, Matsushita and others on brand protection strategies and extensive enforcement actions against brand cloning companies and company name hijackers in China and Hong Kong
• Acted for Apple in over 10 litigations and different types of enforcement work (We successfully took enforcement actions for Apple at 3 consecutive 2008 trade fairs (2 in Hong Kong and 1 in China), for the brand protection team and the iPod licensing team)
• Advised Schneider on appellate strategies to overturn record damages award of RMB345 million made against it by Wenzhou Intermediate Court
• Advised Mattel Inc. in relation to its trade mark, patent and design portfolio in China and Hong Kong and managing its portfolio, as well as providing global advice on protection of its rights in key markets
• Acted for Motorola in trade secrets, patent, copyright and design actions involving one of its ex-business Taiwanese partners in one of the largest IP cases ever in Chinese litigation history
• Acted for Qualcomm for global patent litigation actions regarding licence disputes with Nokia

Real Estate and construction

• Advised RREEF (the real estate asset management arm of Deutsche Bank) on its acquisition of a 50% equity interest in a Zhuhai existing Sino-foreign real estate development joint venture to develop the US$225 million Zhongzhu Uptown project
• Advised Merrill Lynch Global Commercial Real Estate on its investment in a mixed use development project in Guangzhou with a leadingHKSE-listed property developer
• Advised Merrill Lynch Global Commercial Real Estate on its investment in a prime villa development in Shenyang in cooperation with a HKSE-listed property development company
• Advised Morgan Stanley on the US$256 million acquisition financing of East Ocean Plaza Shanghai Phase I
• Advised a Beijing Municipal Government sponsored investment company on the proposed establishment of an a US $1 billion off-shore infrastructure investment fund with an overseas financial institution

Business Restructuring and Insolvency

• Acted for the successful bidder for a portfolio of settled assets owned by China Construction Bank with a face value of RMB 1.1 billion
• Advised on the liquidation of the window company of Zhuhai Municipal Government with US$ 1 billion in liabilities
• Advised on multi-million dollar cross-jurisdictional joint venture dispute between Danone and Wahaha in relation their operations in the PRC
• Advised Parmalat in Amministrazione Straordinaria for its diverstiture from its Sino-foreign joint ventures in Nanjing and Tianjin and operational assistance in Zhaodong
• 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

Projects, Engineering and Construction

• Advised the Beijing State Asset Management Co., Ltd., the state-owned entity nominated by the Beijing Municipal Government to hold its proposed investments in the 2008 Beijing Olympics "Bird's Nest", on all aspects of this US$ 430 million, 30 year BOT project, and also the design and construction aspects of the 2008 Beijing Olympics "Water Cube"
• Advised the lenders to China Huaneng Group on the acquisition of US$ 3.1 billion (S$4.235 billion) of shares in Tuas Power Limited, the first of the three main power generating companies in Singapore to be put up for sale by Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd.
• Advised on the construction, operation and maintenance of the Chengdu-Mianyang Expressway, including a private placement of shares
• Advised on investment in Beijing Line No. 5 Subway, the first mass transit railway project open to foreign participation
• Advised Foster Wheelar Italia and Tecnicas Reunidas of Spain on the design aspects of the US$ 6.3 billion Fujian Refinery Project

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Brief Introduction to Lovells offices in China

Lovells Beijing

Established since 1992, Lovells' Beijing office was one of the first five foreign law firms licensed to practise international law in Beijing. Lovells Beijing is led by Managing Partner, Robert Lewis who heads up the corporate and commercial practice. The team also includes corporate partners Michael Aldrich and Thomas Man, intellectual property partner Horace Lam and structured finance partner Fred Chang. The Beijing office is comprised of five partners, two consultants and a total of more than 30 lawyers.

Lovells Shanghai

The Shanghai office was opened in 2003, as Lovells was amongst the first international law firms approved to establish a second office following China's entry into the World Trade Organisation. Lovells' Shanghai office is divided into five main groups: intellectual property led by Douglas Clark (managing partner of the office), corporate and commercial headed by partner Andrew McGinty, projects (engineering and construction) headed by consultant Terence Wong, dispute resolution led by consultant Eugene Chen, competition law (anti-monopoly law) led by consultant Kirstie Nicholson. The Shanghai office is comprised of two partners, four consultants and a total of more than 30 lawyers.

Lovells Hong Kong

Established since 1982, Lovells' Hong Kong office provides an integrated legal service to clients doing business in North Asia, China and throughout the Asia Pacific region and beyond. The office covers a full range of practice areas ranging from Banking and Finance led by Gary Hamp and Owen Chan, business restructuring and insolvency led by Neil McDonald, intellectual property, media and technology led by Gabriela Kennedy and Henry Wheare, who also covers competition law. Timothy Hill heads up projects, engineering and construction, Jamie Barr, Tim Fletcher and Terence Lau lead the corporate, commercial and M&A practice and Allan Leung and Mark Lin in dispute resolution. The Hong Kong office is comprised of 11 partners, eight consultants and a total of more than 60 lawyers.

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Short profiles of Lovells partners and consultants in China

Beijing

Michael Aldrich

Michael has extensive corporate and commercial experience, particularly in foreign direct investment in China and the region. He also has substantial experience in the telecoms / IT sector. His professional experience began on 1987 when he worked as a legal clerk in one of the major local law firms in Taiwan. In 1992, he joined the China Practice Group of Baker & McKenzie in Beijing / Hong Kong. In 2000, he moved to Perkins Coie to help start that firm's China practice. He joined Lovells Beijing in 2005.

Horace Lam

Horace is a partner and the head of intellectual property practice in the Beijing office. 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.

Thomas Man

Thomas is a corporate partner in 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.

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.

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Shanghai

Douglas Clark

Douglas is the partner in charge of Lovells' intellectual property practice in Mainland China. He is based in Shanghai and is the managing partner of Lovells' Shanghai office and also a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office. He has been practicing intellectual property law in China since 1993 when he joined 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.

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.

Geoffrey Lin

Geoffrey is an intellectual property attorney and licensed US patent attorney based in 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.

Kirstie Nicholson

Kirstie is a consultant in Lovells' competition, EU and trade practice. Kirstie has experience in a wide range of transactional, advisory and contentious competition law matters relating to various industries, in particular the maritime industry. Her experience includes merger filings, European Commission investigations and litigation before the European Courts. She also advises on the full range of compliance issues, including in particular dominance issues and the relationship between competition law and intellectual property rights. In China, Kirstie has been helping clients to prepare for the introduction of the new Anti-Monopoly Law by providing general information about the key provisions of the AML and undertaking reviews of existing agreements and practices to ensure compliance.

Terence Wong

Terence is a consultant based in 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 is a senior partner of Lovells in Hong Kong, and head of the dispute resolution practice in Asia. Allan served his articles and practised in Manchester for a number of years after obtaining his law degree from Manchester University where he was awarded the Dauntesey Prize in International Law in 1983. He joined Lovell White Durrant (the former name of Lovells) in Hong Kong in November 1989 and specialises in commercial litigation. Allan has over 20 years experience in commercial dispute work, with particular emphasis on corporate commercial, contentious insolvency, fraud, asset recovery, judicial review, product liability, defamation, regulatory and insurance related disputes. He deals with PRC related disputes and has acted for foreign corporations in arbitration proceedings in China, as well as for Chinese state-owned companies involved in insolvency proceedings and litigation outside China.

Jamie Barr

Jamie is head of our 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.

Tim Fletcher

Tim is a corporate finance lawyer who enjoys a wide practice, embracing global and regional clients. Tim has over 10 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.

Gary Hamp

Gary is head of Lovells' banking practice in Hong Kong. Gary's recent experience has been primarily in leveraged and acquisition finance, acting for a wide variety of financial institutions and private equity sponsors, including Mizuho Corporate Bank, UBS, Kaupthing, National Australia Bank, RBS and Barclays. Gary has advised on senior, mezzanine and PIK financing arrangements in a variety of leveraged and acquisition financings, including take-privates, bid finance, recapitalisations and cross-border private acquisitions. In addition to his leveraged and acquisition finance experience, Gary also is broadly experienced in general syndicated lending, real estate finance, fund lending and tax structured financing.

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 the past 15 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.

Gabriela Kennedy

Gabriela heads the TMT group in Hong Kong, practising information technology, media, telecommunications and intellectual property law. Gabriela is involved in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious work relating to the information technology, media and telecommunications industries. On the information technology side, Gabriela's particular expertise includes smart card projects, the regulation of encryption technology, data protection, software licensing and outsourcing, as well as disputes relating to mod-chips and anti-circumvention devices. Gabriela has advised on, drafted and negotiated various types of information technology and new economy agreements. On the telecommunications side, Gabriela has drafted and negotiated a variety of telecoms agreements. Gabriela speaks a number of languages fluently, including English, French, Spanish and Romanian and has a working knowledge of Italian and Portuguese.

Terence Lau

Terence is a partner of Lovells' Hong Kong office. He has a broad range of commercial and corporate finance practice and has particular experience in equity offerings, listings, share repurchases, takeovers and mergers (including contested bids). His areas of practice also include private equity, joint ventures and schemes of arrangement.

Mark Lin

Mark deals with all kinds of commercial dispute resolution work, with a focus on disputes related to the corporate and financial services sectors. He has over 14 years of experience in the resolution of commercial disputes in Hong Kong and the region. 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, including a Stockholm Chamber of Commerce arbitration in Gothenburg and an ICC arbitration in London, as well as for the Law Society, as a prosecutor in disciplinary proceedings. He is a member of the Share Registrar's Disciplinary Committee of the Securities & Futures Commission. Mark has advised on the enforcement of CIETAC awards in Hong Kong on behalf of PRC companies. He is an arbitrator on the panel for .hk domain name dispute resolution and .cn domain name dispute resolution.

Neil McDonald

Neil has been involved in a wide range of matters in Asia and Australia, in respect of the restructuring and insolvency of distressed companies. He acts for commercial and investment banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, insolvency appointment holders, turnaround management firms, hedge funds and private equity firms. He specialises in PRC related insolvencies, restructurings, asset recoveries and exit solutions. He has extensive experience in banking and finance litigation, having acted for a number of banks and other financial institutions over the past 10 years. In particular, he has expertise in litigation involving distressed companies and secured property. He also has extensive experience in insurance and reinsurance.

Henry Wheare

Henry heads the Asia intellectual property group of Lovells. 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 practiced intellectual property law for some 30 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.

Owen Chan

Owen is a banking and finance lawyer whose practice has a focus on cross border transactions in Hong Kong and Mainland China. With more than 12 years' experience based in the Hong Kong and Mainland China markets and being a native Mandarin speaker, Owen advises on 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 advises on banking regulatory and insolvency issues in relation to foreign investment in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Andrew Cobden

Andrew is a consultant specialising in patent law. Andrew worked at 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 Lovells' Tokyo office and in 2007 he transferred to Lovells' Hong Kong office. Andrew 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.

Chris Dobby

Chris is a consultant in the commercial dispute resolution department in Lovells' Hong Kong office. Chris has considerable experience in dispute resolution and contentious restructuring and insolvency. He has handled numerous large scale commercial disputes and specialises in multi-jurisdictional litigation, insolvency and fraud.

James Dunlap

James has been based in Hong Kong and China since 1989. He has advised leading multinationals on a wide range of China corporate matters, especially mergers and acquisitions (either directly through merging or acquiring PRC entities, or indirectly through offshore vehicles), foreign direct investment (joint ventures and wholly foreign owned enterprises) including private equity, technology transfer and land issues. He has also frequently advised on PRC individual and corporate taxation and customs matters and on the implementation in China of corporate stock option incentive plans. He speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Russian and German.

James Fong

James has substantial experience as a corporate finance lawyer with leading law firms in Hong Kong. He has been advising sponsors and issuers on a number of Hong Kong Main Board and GEM IPOs. James also has 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.

Kelly Naphtali

Kelly is a consultant based in Hong Kong. She has extensive experience in litigation at all stages of the insolvency and restructuring of distressed companies and has been involved in all manner of applications concerning the protection and preservation of assets of insolvent companies, including applications to appoint provisional liquidators, receivers and managers and applications to freeze assets. Kelly has advised on numerous issues relating to 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 consultant in the Hong Kong office. He initially qualified as a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer. Before joining the firm, Damon worked for Maunsell Consultant Asia Limited in Hong Kong for five years as a civil and structural engineer. Damon has undertaken a wide range of contentious construction work, acting for contractors and main contractors, in respect of building and civil projects. He has handled a large volume of both arbitration and Court proceedings. On the non-contentious side, Damon has advised on various consultancy agreements, construction contracts, joint venture agreements, novation agreements and settlement agreements. He has also advised on construction bonds and insurance policies.

Thomas Tarala

Thomas is a senior US 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, China and Hong Kong. Thomas has extensive experience in both equity capital markets transactions, including IPOs, secondary offers, private placements and venture capital, as well as debt capital markets deals such as medium-term note programmes, structured note programmes, high-yield bonds and securitisation.

Deanna Wong

Deanna is a consultant based in Hong Kong. She first qualified in New Zealand (with a law degree and a science degree in biochemistry and genetics) and has been in Hong Kong since 1999. Her practice focuses on the international aspect of our firm's IP practice targeted at providing global advice to clients' cross-border IP strategies. This includes branding management, commercial exploitation, development and enforcement of different types of intellectual property rights. As part of client's IP portfolio management, Deanna is also responsible for the non-contentious registration practice in the Hong Kong office.

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Contact Lovells in China

Beijing Office

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

Shanghai Office

Kerry Centre
11th Floor, Shanghai Kerry Centre
Shanghai 200040

Tel: +86 21 6138 1688
Fax: +86 21 6279 2695

Hong Kong Office

11th Floor Pacific Place
88 Queensway
Hong Kong

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

http://www.lovells.com