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In depth: China

Alex Aldridge looks at the rise of China's law firms, while CC assesses the prospects for foreign acquisitions and Herbert Smith reports on the navigation of state secrecy laws...
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China: The great search forward

Victor Liang plows his metallic beige BMW sedan through Beijing's traffic on a crisp February morning as he describes how he came to be the first general counsel at Baidu, China's leading internet search engine. It was five years ago, and he was wrapping up an LLM at the University of New South Wales in Australia after having studied law at Peking University a decade before. "I wanted to do some work to combine Chinese local issues and some overseas issues," recalls Liang, who toiled for a few years as a Beijing bureaucrat before switching careers.
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China: Outward bound

When Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) bought 12% of Rio Tinto in February 2008, the world sat up and took notice. The company had succeeded in acquiring a major stake in a global industrial player, a move that other Chinese companies had tried but many had failed. Just 18 months later, Chinalco was to provide another lesson for Chinese acquirers, as its proposal for an extended partnership with Rio foundered amid recovering commodity prices and global political attention.
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CC capital markets specialist named managing partner at Chinese firm

Clifford Chance (CC) capital markets partner Rupert Li has joined King & Wood as the Chinese firm's new global managing partner. Li, a former partner in CC's Beijing office and member of the firm's management committee, will lead King & Wood's efforts to expand its international law capability with a focus on Hong Kong.
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Weil Gotshal recruits CC funds partner for Hong Kong office

Weil Gotshal & Manges has grown its Hong Kong funds practice with the hire of Clifford Chance (CC) partner John Fadely. Fadely joins Weil from the magic circle firm, where he had been a partner in the funds group since 2008. Prior to working at CC he was at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.
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Norton Rose adds partner to Shanghai base with A&O hire

Norton Rose has bolstered its Shanghai office with the hire of a new partner from Allen & Overy (A&O). A&O of counsel Lynn Yang (pictured) is set to join the firm's corporate team as a partner on 1 July.
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Lovells Beijing chief joins Chinese firm as Hogan merger nears completion

Lovells Beijing managing partner Robert Lewis has left the firm ahead of its merger with Hogan & Hartson to join China's AllBright Law Offices. Lewis will join the Shanghai-based firm as a senior international legal consultant.on 1 May - the same day the Hogan Lovells merger goes live.
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Career Clinic: Could I hurt my career by going in-house too soon?

I qualified in September 2009 at a finance firm but was not offered a role on qualification. The market for NQs in finance/corporate is dreadful. However, I have been offered an in-house role in Hong Kong working in the Asia-Pacific region at an international commercial organisation.
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Eversheds and NCTM target China with office launches

Eversheds and NCTM are set to launch new offices in China as more international law firms target the rich potential of the country's legal market. Italy's NCTM plans to launch in Shanghai this summer, with the firm's licence application due to be approved in the coming months. The launch will mark the Milan-based firm's first office opening outside of Europe, coming alongside its existing bases in Italy, London and Brussels.
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Ashurst boosts Asia practices with London partner relocations

Ashurst is relocating London partners Stuart Rubin and Philip Thomson to Hong Kong and Singapore respectively as the firm moves to bulk up its presence in the Asia region. Ashurst counsel Rubin transferred from the UK top 20 law firm's London capital markets practice to Hong Kong in April. It is understood he will be made up to partner in the firm's 2010 promotions round, which will take effect on 1 May.
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