Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Overview:

Davis Polk is one of the world’s premier law firms. Known for our skillful work in highly complex matters that are critical to our clients, we offer high levels of excellence and breadth across all our practices and specialties.

Our clients, many of them industry and global leaders, rely on the exceptional, collaborative service we deliver through our 10 offices worldwide. Their success is our core focus.Our Beijing office, which opened in early 2007, is led by 2 partners and currently has more than 15 lawyers. It joins Hong Kong and Tokyo as the firm’s third location in Asia, and expands the presence and reach of Davis Polk’s broad and highly successful practice in China.

Working in tandem with our Hong Kong office, the Beijing office represents issuers and underwriters in many important (and frequently precedent-setting) cross-border initial public offerings, RMB bonds, Yankee bonds, and other securities offerings, including many of the landmark transactions involving the privatization and listing of Chinese state-owned enterprises. We are a leader in high-yield debt offerings by Chinese issuers.

Our China M&A/Private Equity practice, supported by our worldwide M&A resources and expertise, puts us in a position well suited to advise Chinese companies seeking to make acquisitions and strategic investments outside China. In addition, the experience we have gained throughout many inbound transactions has given us in-depth knowledge of the Chinese rules regarding foreign ownership, investments and joint ventures.

Many of our lawyers resident in Beijing are admitted in the U.S. and Hong Kong and all are fluent in English and native Chinese, including Chinese dialects such as Shanghainese.

Clients in Beijing include leading international investment banks, Chinese investment banks and both Chinese state-owned and privately-owned enterprises. We also work closely with some of the market-leading Chinese law firms.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP – Providing services in the following areas of law: