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Yanping Wang has joined Miller Canfield as a principal and resident director of its Shanghai
office. Wang, a Chinese lawyer who is also licensed to practice in the US, will join the firm’s corporate group and China team, focusing on corporate transactions and assisting clients in doing business in and with China. She has extensive experience in corporate, customs protection, employment, foreign exchange, intellectual property, and real estate law.
Miller Canfield also recently announced that lawyer Amber Liu joined the firm in its Chicago office. A native of China, Liu has several years of experience as a corporate lawyer in China and in the US. She is licensed to practice in Illinois and New York and travels often between the US and China.
Bird & Bird has named John Chiu chief operating officer for Greater China and corporate development officer for Asia. He first joined the firm in Hong Kong in 2010 as its finance and administration director. He has spent the past 19 years in the Asia Pacific region during which time he successfully developed and operated multiple offices in China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Chiu’s appointment follows on from a number of lateral senior and team hires in the region this year, including Richard Keady and three associates to its dispute resolution practice in Hong Kong and China and IP partner Lorraine Tay in Singapore.
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