Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Overview:

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides coordinated legal advice and representation on some of the largest and most complex transactional and litigation matters in the world. Our headquarter offices in New York City work in tandem with our offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. to provide highly integrated transactional and litigation expertise. The Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo offices are staffed with U.S. corporate lawyers and serve both local clients and the local practice of our large U.S. corporate clients. Our London office houses both U.S. and English lawyers, including corporate attorneys and U.S. litigators advising on European competition law and other matters.

To meet the flourishing business needs of our clients, Simpson Thacher has been active in Greater China and Asia for more than 20 years through our office in Hong Kong. Our highly praised Hong Kong office offers one of the largest resident teams among U.S. law firms to leading Chinese and foreign companies. We advise on U.S., Hong Kong and English laws in our Hong Kong office, and most of our Hong Kong lawyers are bilingual speakers of English and Mandarin Chinese, with the necessary depth of local experience and appreciation of Chinese culture, customs and business practices to provide superior legal services for our clients.
Coordinating with the Firm’s offices in Beijing, as well as Tokyo and our other offices worldwide, we are able to provide global reach in our advice on:

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures
Inbound and outbound investments
Capital markets, including IPOs and debt offerings
Private fund formation
Banking and credit
Real estate

Our work also takes us to Australia, India, Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Simpson Thacher’s Hong Kong lawyers have a deep understanding of the region and how business is conducted in this part of the world.

Working with litigators in our other offices, we also provide support to Chinese companies and our other clients involved in investigations by U.S. authorities, complex court cases, internal investigations and dispute resolution.

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