SHANGHAI — In January 2007, McDermott, Will & Emery announced a groundbreaking deal that created an allied Chinese law firm, MWE China Law Offices, led by two prominent Shanghai lawyers. Later that year, Mayer Brown agreed to merge with Johnson Stokes & Master, Hong Kong’s largest law firm.
Both firms’ moves occasioned much hype and hoopla. But two years is a lifetime in the swiftly changing world of China practice. How are these firms doing today? In Part One of our special report, Shanghai-based writer and former Recorder reporter Kellie Schmitt reports on MWE China.
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