Clients Say “A brilliant lawyer, but an even better service provider” Steve Popoff’s longstanding corporate clients rely on him as their trusted legal advisor. Known for his prompt, pragmatic and cost-effective counsel, Steve approaches specific client challenges with a keen eye to his clients’ strategic and business concerns. His clients appreciate his attentive, accessible, and affable manner, and often comment on his ability to make them feel as if they are his only client. Steve’s transaction-oriented practice includes experience on numerous complex transactions including acting for multi-national companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, public take-over bids, purchases and sales, related party transactions, and distribution and supply agreements. Steve also advises his clients on competition, pricing, construction and regulatory matters. As an agent for extra-provincial law firms, Steve acts in matters involving general, corporate, securities, and merger and acquisition work. With a background in chemical engineering, business and finance, Steve has both the technical knowledge and business acumen to understand each client’s industry, goals and concerns. He provides counsel to a number of private equity, health, refinery, electronics, insurance, consumer products, manufacturing, construction, pharmaceutical and professional partnership clients. His practice also encompasses securities matters, business restructuring and insolvency, and tax planning for entrepreneurs and professionals. Steve is the firm's Corporate Practice Group Leader and one of two partners who manage its TAGLaw relationship.
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Peter Pang is the founder and Chairman of the newly combined IPO Pang Xingpu Law Firm where he leads a team of lawyers with offices in China and North America. He has over 35 years of experience as a practicing attorney, over 20 of which were spent in the People’s Republic of China. As the new Chairman of IPO Pang Xingpu, Mr. Pang is poised to lead the newly combined firm into its next phase as a global professional services provider for China ventures. Mr. Pang’s primary practice is focused in 3 areas: Intellectual Property, Foreign Direct Investments and Labor Law. Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Pang served as in-house corporate and IP counsel at Shell Oil Company, M&A attorney for Hershey Foods, Vice President and General Counsel for Dole Packaged Food Corporation, Chief Corporate Counsel for Nissan North America, EVP and GC for Win Win Gaming, Inc. and Legal Representative for bwin Interactive Gaming AG. Most recently, Mr. Pang completed a three-year stint as Of Counsel to the U.S. Michigan based law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC, working out of their Washington DC office, where he primarily focused on international business transactions. Mr. Pang is currently active in practicing cross border mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, intellectual property law, commercial contracts and dispute resolution. He has written numerous books and articles on Chinese law and legal issues. He is also a frequent speaker at international bar organizations. Mr. Pang is not only a China expert, but he is also a global visionary, helping Chinese businesses expand their reach and footprint throughout North America and Europe. Mr. Pang has had a successful track record in matching Chinese outbound ambitions with Western offerings. With both the national and international perspective and having worked and lived in North America, Asia and Europe, Mr. Pang understands the cultural differences between the East and the West and can help international clients successfully and efficiently navigate through the Chinese bureaucratic and regulatory red-tape, and vice versa, working with Chinese enterprises, Mr. Pang’s vast international network of attorneys, accountants and local partners can help Chinese businesses realize their ambitions. Bar Admissions • California • Texas • New York • Pennsylvania • Washington DC Education • UC Berkeley • Santa Clara University • University of Houston (LLM) Memberships • International Business Law Consortium • International Referral • American Bar Association • Alliance of Mergers and Acquisition Advisors
Services: Corporate, Global Expansion, Intellectual Property, Labour law, Legal Services
Born and raised in Chandigarh, India but with extensive travel experience from a young age to North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, Shantanu is a practicing lawyer in the Indian Legal System over the last 11 years and has indepth knowledge and experience in Corporate and Commercial Laws. Adept with Court Procedures, Regulatory affairs, Compliance issues, Banking norms, etc., Shantanu is familiar with cross border issues pertaining to setting up of a new business by a foreign company in India, joint ventures, business collaborations, valuations of businesses, formation and incorporation procedures, private equity and venture capital investing. Shantanu has been regularly engaged as an expert witness in Indian law by solicitors and courts in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries. Familiar with matters pertaining to civil, criminal and administrative law, his services have been retained by a large number of public sector undertakings of the neighboring states and the Central Government. He renders opinion on matters pertaining to Indian corporate and commercial law for an international clientele specifically focusing on project structuring, investment, joint ventures, technology transfer agreements and a sector wise impact of WTO. SMA Legal, under his stewardship, has been able to venture forth in newer areas, namely rendering advisory services to foreign consulates and embassies in Delhi, Debt recovery for international clients and Advise on UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Immigration Laws. A practitioner in Alternative Dispute Resolution as well as court litigation, he appears before appellate authorities and courts throughout India. Shantanu writes on trade and immigration issues for various publications including the Tribune, a national daily published at Chandigarh. Education A graduate with Honours in English, Shantanu enrolled as a member of the bar after completing his law degree in 1999 from Punjab University, Chandigarh. Shantanu did his L.L.M from the University of London after having been awarded the prestigious Felix Fellowship to study for an L.L.M. at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Memberships • Associated Lawyers, an international law firms network • The International Bar Association (IBA), the world’s leading organisation of international Legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies • Indo-German Chamber of Commerce • The Association of British Scholars • OSEC Business Network Switzerland • TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) • The Capital Foundation Society of India and various Industry bodies representing Indian companies and small businesses
Services: Corporate, Legal Services
Commercial & Corporate attorney founder and managing director of the AGP Group consisted of "A.G.Paphitis & Co. LLC" law firm and its' affiliated companies "AGP Management/ AGP Trustees/ AGP Secretaries/AGP Accounting". Specializing on local and international tax law, coprorate structuring, company law and corporate governance, investment and financial advisory, FX/BO/EMI/PI consulting and licensing, civil and corporate litigation in Cyprus.
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