Arnold & Porter

Chairman: Richard M Alexander

Co-Managing Partners: Michael D. Daneker, Ellen Kaye Fleishhacker

Number of lawyers: Approximately 1,000 across ten domestic and five international offices

Firm Overview:

Arnold & Porter combines sophisticated regulatory, litigation, and transactional capabilities to resolve clients’ most complex issues. With over 1,000 lawyers practicing in 15 offices worldwide, we offer deep industry experience and an integrated approach that spans more than 40 practice areas. Through multidisciplinary collaboration and focused industry experience, we provide innovative and effective solutions to mitigate risks, address challenges, and achieve successful outcomes.

Main Areas of Practice

Corporate

Advises clients on cross-border M&A transactions involving China, foreign direct investment, strategic alliances and joint ventures, technology transfer and licensing transactions, cybersecurity and data privacy matters, and other legal issues that may arise as our clients operate and expand in China. The firm serves clients in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, manufacturing, technology, aviation, food and beverage, consumer products, education, hospitality,

and real estate.

Disputes

For clients facing litigation or other contentious matters in China, the firm partners with selected local counsel to provide strategic litigation management, ensuring a close alignment between the client's objectives and the litigation strategy implemented on the ground. For disputes that are subject to an arbitration agreement, the firm has a leading international arbitration team that represents clients in commercial arbitration proceedings conducted under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc arbitral proceedings.

International Arbitration

The firm has advised on international arbitration projects for the US and international clients. Serve as advisers, advocates and arbitrators in economic disputes between sovereign governments and private investors. The firm also has one of the most active and experienced investor-State arbitration practices in the Asia-Pacific region.

Investigations & Compliance

Conducts investigations, performs compliance due diligence and integration, provides compliance training, and designs compliance systems. The firm has broad experience mitigating risk in diverse areas, including charitable contributions; public tenders; state-owned media; design institutes; and distributors, travel agencies, and other third-party intermediaries. The firm uses data analytics to conduct trend and root cause analysis. The Shanghai location enables avoidance of issues with cross-border data transfer under PRC regulatory regimes.

Life Sciences Regulatory

Identifies the most efficient regulatory pathways and implementation strategies for the China market, including technology transfer, licensing, co-development, and importation versus local manufacturing. Advises on clinical trials, product registration, regulatory data protection, and commercialization efforts, such as advertising and promotion, wholesale and retail distribution, and pricing and reimbursement. Also assists on internal GCP and GMP audits, responding to regulatory inspections, and adverse event reporting and product recalls.