Expanding its cross-border practice, New Jersey-based Archer & Greiner has launched a China practice group and an office in Houston, hiring three lawyers with experience in international work who had been working at boutique BOGC Legal in Houston.

The firm’s China practice represents clients with business in China and the U.S. It is chaired by Archer partner Steve Packman, who works in the firm’s offices in Philadelphia and New York, and lateral partner hire Jiangang (James) Ou in Houston.