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 25 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 speaks Chinese.  Mr. Tang is on the Council of American Law Institute and included in Best Lawyers and International Who's Who of Business 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

International

• Board, National Bureau of Asian Research
• Board, Pacific Council on International Policy
• Former Board, National Committee on U.S. - China Relations
• Board and former Chair, Washington Council on International Trade
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations

Legal

• Chair-Elect, Anglo-American Real Property Institute
• Best Lawyers
• International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
• Euromoney Guide to World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers
• Former Board of Governors, American College of Real Estate Lawyers
• Counsel, American Law Institute
• President's Award, Asian Bar Association of Washington

American Bar Association

• Former President and Board, American Bar Foundation
• Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
• Standing Committee on Membership
• Rules and Calendar Committee
• Nominating Committee
• House of Delegates
• Asian Law Initiative, Council Member
• Chair, Multi-jurisdictional Practice Committee, Section Officers Conference
• Special Committee on the Common Law 
• Special Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession (1996 - 1999)
• Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (Chair 2001 - 2002)
  

Other Bar Associations

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Washington State Bar Association
• Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association
• Member, International Bar Association

• Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

Civic Activities

• Board, Blakemore Foundation
• Executive Committee and Former Chair, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce
• Visiting Committees, Columbia University School of Law and University of Washington School of International Studies
• Chair, Higher Education Working Group
• Member, Committee of 100
• Board, University of Washington Foundation
• Faculty, Practising Law Institute, ALI-ABA, American Conference Institute and various Bar programs
• Board and Former Chair, Trade Development Alliance
• Former Trustee, Lakeside School (Chair, Schools Committee)
• Former Board Member, Seattle Art Museum
• Former Board Member and Treasurer, Legal Foundation of Washington
• Former Board and Chair, The Evergreen State College
• Former Board, Higher Education Coordinating Board
• Former Board, Harvard Alumni Association
• Former Trustee and Chair, Epiphany School
• Former Adjunct Faculty, University of Washington Law School