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Asia-Pacific Practice
Chair - Charles X. Wang
Charles (“Charlie”) Wang is the chair of our firm’s Asia-Pacific and China region practice. We provide general, corporate, dispute resolution services to clients operating in Asia, including China, and to Asian clients throughout the United States. This practice includes complex commercial litigation, arbitration, corporate finance, joint ventures and partnerships, technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions, investments and divestments, market entry and exit strategies, entity restructuring and antidumping and countervailing duties representations. The Chair, Charles “Charlie” Wang, brings decades of international experience as well as the necessary cultural and linguistic skills to bear in creating the legal and business solutions that work for clients. Our firm works with some of the best lawyers in China to provide innovative legal services to Americans doing business in China and Chinese doing business in the United States. Built on our decades of experience, we offer practical solutions in the fields of direct investment, joint ventures, intellectual property protection and dispute resolution, international trade matters, divestment, and exit strategies. Our firm is also affiliated with native law firms of other Asian countries who have special insight into the legal systems of those countries. The Asia-Pacific Practice Group gathers the talents of international business, transactional, and litigation attorneys who represent clients in all aspects of business and commercial disputes, including defending criminal, civil, and administrative matters, and prosecuting or defending arbitration, mediation, and international litigation.
Middle East Practice
Co-Chairs – David Mahdavi and George Doumar
Our firm’s Middle East Practice represents clients in a wide range of activities, including finance and banking, (both Islamic Law and Finance and Conventional Law and Finance), hospitality, energy, joint ventures, regulatory advice, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, communications and international trade and security matters. Our attorneys are internationally prominent in alternative dispute resolution, mediation, and arbitrations. In addition to this experience, lawyers in our Middle East Practice have represented both commercial and governmental clients in disputes before most of the major arbitral tribunals around the world in a host of different industries. We also have extensive involvement in international litigation arbitration work with local counsel as appropriate. In order to assist our Middle East clients in the most effective way, we draw upon our international reach, experience and close working relationship with local firms, with which we have unique relationships. Our wide range of Middle East clients include multinationals, local and private companies, investors, and government agencies. We assist companies and foreign affiliates with helping them develop proactively effective anti-corruption compliance programs, and regulatory matters from the appropriate country perspective to establish local operations in the export of sophisticated business transactions in the Middle East.
Latin America Practice
Co-Chairs – James T. Bacon and Warner F. Young, III
Our firm’s Latin America Practice attorneys have familiarity with all aspects of law in Latin America. We offer Latin America services tailored to family, entrepreneurs, and corporate clients, based both in the United States and in Latin America. Our connections to local firms that assist us allows us to serve as an effective bridge between client operations in the United States and in Latin America. We help clients capitalize on business, trade and investment opportunities, and assist in client growth strategies. We also assist U.S. based clients with outbound investment opportunities in Latin America, and through our law firm partners, provide local knowledge and resources as necessary to fully capitalize on market opportunities, investments, governmental strategies, financing and resolving international disputes. We have developed substantial experience in real estate development in Latin America and have assisted with sales and distribution agreements with Latin American governments. Our attorneys also provide cross-border dispute resolution, arbitration, and complex litigation as necessary to our growing customer base.