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Professionals

Gary Gao
Position: Partner
E-mail:gary.gao@dentons.cn
Office location:Shanghai
Phone:+8621-58785888
Fax:+8621-58786218

Education

Sept. 1986 – Jul. 1990, BA, East China Normal University

Sept. 1990 – Jul. 1993, MA, East China Normal University

Sept. 2003 – Jul. 2005, Post Graduate Program, East China University of Politics & Law


Working Experiences

Jul. 1993 – Feb. 1996, Lecturer, East China Normal University

Mar. 1996 – Feb. 2001, Business Manager & In-house Counsel, Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research

Mar. 2001 – Dec. 2004, Attorney-at-law, Shanghai Yishi Law Firm

Jan. 2005 – Feb. 2015, Partner, Haworth & Lexon Law Firm

Mar. 2015 – Present, Partner, Dacheng Law Offices


Qualifications

Licensed Independent Director for Listed companies


Practice Areas

1.Areas of Practice include Foreign Direct Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Construction, Dispute Resolution;

2.Major clients include the world biggest cosmetics manufacturer, an American Fortune 500 industrial product manufacturer, the biggest pharmaceutical company in Italy, the biggest health food company in Singapore, a Middle-East five-star airline company, the biggest airline company in South America and the biggest architectural firm in Japan;

3.Provided all the legal services in relation to the mergers and acquisitions of Chinese companies by a number of transnational companies;

4.Provided all the legal services for a number of transnational companies for the incorporation of their wholly foreign owned enterprises and joint ventures in China;

5.Provided all the legal services for a number of transnational companies in their acquisition of land-use right and development of production facilities in China;

6.Having been the long-term legal counsel of several pharmaceutical companies and conversant with the practices and operations of pharmaceutical companies;

7.Provided all the legal services in relation to the liquidation of several foreign invested enterprises in China;

8.Acted as the long-term legal counsel of several international airline companies and successfully handled a number of disputes in international air transport;

9.Acted as the attorney for a number of arbitration cases before famous arbitration commissions where the arbitration is conducted in English.


Working Language

Chinese, English


Publications

“Debt Collection in China”, EUCCC Journal, July 2003