Chinese Trade Insights and Networking

Join George Martin and Yiquang Li, from Faegre Baker Daniels, as they discuss China’s current strategy for expanding its global footprint and the country’s continuing efforts to encourage foreign investment.  Learn more about China’s ambitious Belt & Road Initiative (“BRI”), in which one trillion dollars is expected to be invested in BRI regions over ten years.  Also, look inside the booming Chinese e-commerce business that is leading to revolutionary changes in its own society and also those of other emerging markets.

About the Speakers

For more than 28 years, George Martin has dedicated his practice to assisting U.S. multinational businesses with their international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, with a special focus on China.  George has handled transactions and investigations in more than 40 countries, with an expertise in emerging markets, having lived and practiced law in China and Eastern Europe for five years. He is recognized in the Guide to Leading Practitioners: China as one of the pre-eminent practitioners with expertise in mergers and acquisitions involving China.

Yiquang Li (“Lee”) is a leading Chinese lawyer with a dual U.S. law degree, and is one of the few dually qualified Chinese lawyers who returned to China in the mid-1990s to help international firms facilitate foreign investment into China for their multinational clients. Lee advises companies conducting business in China on a wide range of transactional, operational and compliance matters.