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Advising China inc.

Event Name Advising China inc.
Start Date 21st Mar 2012 6:00pm
End Date 21st Mar 2012 7:30pm
Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes
Description


Selling professional services to the world's largest market

Antony Dapiran

Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP - Hong Kong

  • What are the opportunities for young Australians to enter the professional services sector? 
  • How do you convince Chinese clients the value of professional services?
  • What are the key factors to successfully advising Chinese clients?

About the speaker

Antony Dapiran is a partner of international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and divides his time between the firm's Hong Kong and Beijing offices.  Educated at the University of Melbourne and Peking University, Antony has lived and worked in Greater China for over 15 years.  

Antony specialises in advising Chinese clients on international securities offerings and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He has advised on many of the largest and most complex initial public offerings (IPOs) in the China market, on transactions raising in aggregate more than US$60bn, including the IPOs of Agricultural Bank of China and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China's two largest ever IPOs.

Antony is admitted as a legal practitioner in Hong Kong, England and New South Wales. He is listed in the Chambers Asia, IFLR1000 and Asia Pacific Legal 500 directories of leading lawyers, as well as the Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers. A frequent commentator on Chinese business and legal matters, Antony was recognised by The American Lawyer as one of the “New China Hands”, and is regularly quoted in media including the The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and South China Morning Post.

DATE: Wednesday 21 March 2012 
TIME: 6:00 PM 
VENUE: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre - The University of Melbourne
COST: Free of charge.
REGISTRATION: Please register here

This event is presented by Asialink and the Australia China Young Professionals Initiative.