While U.S. and British firms have been flocking to China, they’re not the only Westerners vying for a piece of the action. A handful of French firms are also in China, thoughas Salans and Gide have discovered latelythe going can be rough. Meanwhile, De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is trying another tack, by striking an alliance with China’s Allbright in one of the first fee- and client-sharing agreements between a French firm and a Chinese firm.
Salans, for its part, is currently in retrenchment mode in China. In late March the firm’s partners voted to shutter its five-lawyer Beijing office. Then, in early May, Salans announced that it was closing its Hong Kong office too, as well as ending its association with the local firm of Pang & Co.
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