With the world’s second largest economy, China is a leading exporter of business and consumer goods and a vast land of opportunity for Western products and international investment. Shanghai, in turn, serves as the gateway to Mainland China and increasingly the door for China's burgeoning outbound investment. A city with a long history of internationalism, Shanghai reopened to the world following China’s economic reforms in the 1990s. Since then, it has become China’s economic engine. Today, Shanghai is one of the world’s busiest ports and a magnet for foreign investment, recording double-digit economic growth for 14 consecutive years and attracting hundreds of international businesses to the skyscrapers of its Pudong financial district.

Greenberg Traurig attorneys have been helping clients for the past 15 years to bridge diverse legal systems and cultures with a focus on efficient and effective legal services. The attorneys in GT’s Shanghai office – working with multilingual colleagues in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam and other cities – advise U.S. and international clients entering the Chinese market, as well as those with established business interests in China. We assist in negotiating, structuring and documenting transactions both inbound to and outbound from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We also advise Chinese clients on transactions and other business dealings in the United States and abroad.

More specifically, our attorneys provide strategic advice and legal services in connection with foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, financings and securitization activities, intellectual property, trade and governmental strategies, international dispute resolution, infrastructure and project finance, technology and telecommunications, export controls, and business immigration issues.