Skadden builds in Asia with Shanghai debut
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom will launch an office in Shanghai on Monday (18 February), with the relocation of corporate partner Gregory Miao, previously sharing his time between Hong Kong and Beijing. The branch will focus on M&A, corporate and real estate, with Miao leading the corporate practice and Ed Sheremeta heading up its real estate division.
February 14, 2008 at 12:23 PM
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom will launch an office in Shanghai on Monday (18 February), with the relocation of corporate partner Gregory Miao, who previously shared his time between Hong Kong and Beijing.
The branch will focus on M&A, corporate and real estate, with Miao leading the corporate practice and Ed Sheremeta heading up its real estate division.
Miao, who was born in Shanghai, is the head of the firm's China practice. In 2007, he represented China CITIC Bank in a $5.9bn (£3.03bn) shares listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange, one of the largest initial public offerings that year.
Sheremeta is a partner at the firm's Tokyo branch. His real estate experience includes non-recourse financings, joint ventures and mezzanine structures.
The launch of the Shanghai outfit takes the number of Asian branches for the US giant to five, having opened in Tokyo 20 years ago, in Hong Kong in 1989 and in Beijing in 1991. Most recently, Skadden launched an office in Singapore in 1995.
The firm has been planning to expand to Shanghai for some time and applied to the Chinese authorities for a licence last year.
Initially Miao and Sheremeta will be the only partners in the office, although Skadden executive partner Robert Sheehan said the firm will relocate additional real estate lawyers from the US.
He commented: "Shanghai is the most vibrant developing city in the world and its real estate pocket is enormous."
Recent launches in the city by US firms during the autumn of 2007 include those of New York outfit Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, which had earlier opened in Hong Kong in 2006, and Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton.
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