David K.Y. Tang

Mr. Tang is the Managing Partner, Asia for the Firm and his law practice concentrates in the areas of foreign investment, cross-border financings, mergers and acquisitions, real property related transactions. He has more than 30 years of transactional experience in the Greater China market. Mr. Tang was managing partner of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP from 1995 – 1999. He is based in the Seattle and Beijing offices and is bilingual in English and Chinese. In September 2011, he was listed in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Guide to Leading Practitioners as one of the pre-eminent practitioners in the area of M&A in China. Mr. Tang is on the Council of The American Law Institute and is included in Best Lawyers and International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. He was named the 2012 Seattle Corporate “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers. He served on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2002 – 2008 and as its Chair from 2006 – 2008.

Publications

• “American and International Proposals for Facilitating Electronic Commerce,” Oxford University Press, 1999
• “Special Concerns of Foreign Investors in Sophisticated Real Estate Transactions,” PLI 1998
• “International Intellectual Property Law,” International Law Deskbook, ABA Press, 1996
• “International Joint Ventures,” Negotiating and Structuring International Business Transactions, 1994
• “Foreign Investors as Joint Venture Partners,” Foreign Investment, 1990
• “Economic Trade and Organizations in China,” Doing Business in China, Matthew Bender, 1989
• “Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises,” Journal of Chinese Law, 1988
• Various Newspaper Op-eds and Letters to Editor