Xiaoqin(Gary)Gao
Gao Xiaoqin Partner
Corporate and M&A
Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency
Dispute Resolution
Real Estate, Construction and Energy
Detailed introduction
Mr. Gary Gao's areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, private equity funds, foreign direct investment, construction, and commercial arbitration and litigation. The clients he has served include the world's biggest cosmetics manufacturer, a US based Fortune 500 industrial enterprise, the biggest pharmaceutical company in Italy, the biggest health care products company in Singapore, a Middle East based five-star airline company, the biggest airline company in South America and the biggest architectural firm in Japan.
Gary has provided a full range of legal services for the mergers and acquisitions of Chinese companies by dozens of multinational corporations. He has also assisted a number of multinational corporations in incorporating their joint ventures or wholly foreign owned enterprises in China. In the past several years, Gary has provided a variety of legal services for several private equity funds and offered legal advice on their formation and operation. He has acted as long-term legal counsel to several pharmaceutical companies and is conversant with the practices and operation models of pharmaceutical companies in China. He has provided legal services for four airlines from the Middle East and South America in respect of their entry into China's market and acted as long-term legal counsel to these airlines. He has also successfully represented these airlines in a number of cases concerning international air transport disputes. Since he was engaged in the practice of law, he has represented a large number of arbitration cases before major PRC commercial arbitration institutions with which arbitration is conducted in Chinese or English languages.
- 2005 Postgraduate program, East China University of Political Science and Law
- 1993 M.A., East China Normal University
- 1990 B.A., East China Normal University
- 2015 - date Partner, Dentons Shanghai Office
- 2005 - 2015 Partner, Haworth & Lexon Law Firm
- 2001 - 2004 Attorney-at-law, Shanghai Yishi Law Firm
- 1996 - 2001 Business Manager & In-house Counsel, Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research
- Licensed independent director for listed companies
- Export to USA – Why We Should Choose Arbitration (Co-author with Eric Sherby), China Trade News, October 16, 2015
- Debt Collection in China, EUCCC Journal, Issue 7, 2003
- Contractual Risk Control of Architectural Design Consulting Enterprises without Design License, E-journal of Dentons Shanghai Office, February 27, 2017