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Practice Areas Corporate and Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate. Education - Law degree (JD) cum laude from Escuela Libre de Derecho (1997). - LLM degree with honors from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1999). - Executive Program on Taxation, Finance and Accounting at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). - Executive Program on Finance and Accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Awards and Recognitions - Chambers & Partners Global – Corporate/M&A – 2010 – 2018. - Chambers & Partners Latin America -Corporate/M&A – 2010 – 2018. - Chambers & Partners Latin America – Real…

James has been advising numbers of US, European, Australian and Asian companies investing in China by way of setting up RO (Representative Office), JV (Joint Venture), WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise) or merger and acquisition with Chinese companies. With 20 years of legal experience, James is expertise in advising clients on commercial and corporate matters, James currently is the legal counsel to numbers of foreign-invested companies, including Nestle Guangzhou, Swire Guangdong Coca-Cola,Tyco International, Tupperware China, Coface China, Candy China, Taly China, etc. James has been involved in a number of large-scale assignments involving cross-border liquidation and restructuring, include GITIC and…

Prior to private practice, Dr. Steven Yu served at Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre, the first Chinese World Trade Organization (WTO) service body, where he advised government agencies, enterprises and industry associations on trade compliance upon China’s WTO access. Dr. Yu started his private practice in 2003, focusing on trade law, foreign investment law (including Chinese enterprises’ foreign investments and foreign investments in China), corporate and commercial. He leads the Firm’s team representing Chinese clients to safeguard their trade and investment interest in various jurisdictions; on the other hand, he assists foreign chambers and many international companies for their interest…

I am a partner of Clarkslegal and I head the firm’s construction, engineering and environmental projects group. I love the challenging diversity of my work, ranging from contract drafting and negotiating through to all forms of industry dispute resolution or, more preferably and when appropriate, dispute avoidance. Both I and the wider team are recognised by a number of the legal directories, including Chambers and Partners and Legal 500, as leading construction industry lawyers. In 2018, I was inducted to The Legal 500 Hall of Fame as an elite leading lawyer, for having received constant praise by clients for the…

Sedrak Asatryan

Director, Managing Partner, Attorney Professional experience Sedrak Asatryan holds the position of the Managing Partner of Concern-Dialog CJSC from 2003. In 2000-2009 he simultaneously supervised Yerevan Center of Technology Management department at Yerevan Municipality. He practices in the areas of Real Estate Law, Tax Law, Administrative Law, Heritage Law and Labor Law. At present he specializes also in the sphere of economic crimes. Mr Asatryan has a wide experience in representation to courts and various administrative bodies, such as Public Services Regulatory Commission of the RA, State Commission for Protection of Economic Competition of RA, RA State Revenue Committee, etc.…