MWE China Law Offices (MWE China) integrates a local lawyer team and international legal resources to organize a tailored expert team for domestic and foreign clients. It provides global and diversified legal services that meet the needs of clients.
Founded in 2007, Shanghai-based MWE China established an exclusive strategic partnership and shared legal resources with McDermott Will & Emery, a world-renowned international law firm. This is the first time that a western law firm has established a formal and close partnership with a mainland China law firm.
The key business areas include overseas investment, tax, finance, private client trust and wealth management, labor and employment, compliance and regulation, data compliance, litigation and dispute resolution, healthcare and life sciences, antitrust and anti-unfair competition, intellectual property, energy and project finance.
MWE China has a team of legal professionals who have previously served in China’s judiciary, prosecutors’ offices and police offices. In the face of an increasingly complex regulatory and compliance environment with numerous legal issues of government approvals, investigations and sanctions, MWE China’s diversified team works together with clients to understand their businesses, then crafts solutions to help them meet their business needs and challenges in China and beyond.
The team has experience in building relations with the government, which is helpful to understand various regulatory concerns and strategies of national and local governments. At the same time, in each of the different regulatory matters, MWE China leverages an understanding of China’s increasingly complex legal environment to counsel clients on how to minimize risks and liaise effectively with government agencies. Furthermore, MWE China uses its knowledge of China’s business and government culture to provide professional advice to customers to help them operate their business in the most beneficial way and reduce or avoid damage to the company’s reputation and public relations.
In 2014, MWE China established MWE China Data Center and became the first law firm to set up a data center. It is also in the first group of law firms to focus on data privacy, local storage, transmission and data consultation service. MWE China uses legal knowledge and technology to help customers develop long-term data compliance strategies and constantly update and improve their methods and the strategic direction and works together with clients to implement innovative solutions.
After ten years of innovative and unremitting efforts in customer-based service, MWE China has become the most qualified legal adviser for many Fortune Global 500 companies. In this new era, MWE China welcomes clients from all sectors at home and abroad to cooperate with it for mutual benefit and win-win results.