Beijing, March 3, 2010, GLO has elected three new partners, effective March 1, 2009.
We take great pleasure to announce that three new partners have joined GLO,¡± said Jinrong Liu, the Managing Partner of GLO, This is a significant achievement in strengthening our well-established leadership capabilities in various legal practice areas.
The new partners are Huawei Lin, David Fu and Minghao Xu.
HUAWEI LIN was a partner of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. Mr. Lin is a widely recognized leading specialist with more than 15-year experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, real estate and foreign direct investment. Mr. Lin received an LLM from New York University Law School in 2006, an LLM from University of British Columbia Law School, Canada in 1997, and an LLB from Beijing University Law School in 1991.
DAVID FU was a senior associate of Shearman & Sterling LLP. Mr. Fu has 15-year experience in mergers and acquisitions, restructurings of foreign-invested enterprises, foreign direct investment and overseas pubic offerings and listings. He is widely recognized among international clients for his extensive experience in these areas. Mr. Fu received an LLM from Columbia University School of Law in 1998, a Master of Law from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, School of Law in 1993 and a B.A. from Anhui Institute of Education in 1990.
MINGHAO XU worked with Zhong Lun Law Firm and was a team leader in practice group of real estate development, projects and construction. Mr. Xu received an LLB from China University of Political Science and Law in 2002.
The addition of these outstanding lawyers to our partnership has been one of the most exciting developments of the firm in 2010,¡± said Mr. Liu, the Managing Partner of the firm, Huawei and David has each brought with them 15 years experience working with leading international firms and will certainly enhance our leadership capabilities in a number of legal practice areas, such as mergers and acquisitions, foreign inbound investment, capital markets as well as outbound investment by Chinese clients. Minghao will no doubt further strengthen our leadership in project finance and construction, and will expand our capacity in serving existing real estate clients.
GLO efforts in expanding and optimizing the partnership structure by introducing talented lawyers from leading international and PRC firms have proved successful since 2008. Another equally exciting development is the rapid growth of the firm Shanghai Office in the past two years, benefiting from the addition of five new lateral partners, including George Wang who worked with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in Hong Kong, Alan Zhou and Jane Ying who worked with Allbright, Lei Niu who worked with CIETAC and Weiwei Gu who worked with King & Wood.
About GLO
GLO is a leading full-service PRC law firm with more than 150 lawyers in Beijing and Shanghai offices in China.
Founded in 1984 under the auspices of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, GLO was the first law firm established following China's implementation of the "open-door" policy, and was subsequently transformed to a private partnership in early 2001. Since its inception, GLO has been focusing on foreign-related legal matters, and has been ranked as a top-tie PRC law firm by numerous international legal publications, such as Legal 500, Asian Legal Business, Asia Law & Practice and China Law & Practice.
As a recognized leading PRC law firm, we serve both PRC and international clients successfully in various industries and are continuously advising on many innovative transactions in a wide range of commercial areas, such as foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, capital markets, banking, project finance, general corporate, tax, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration. Our mission is to provide professional legal services with high quality at competitive rates to meet the needs of our clients.
