Kevin is a US attorney and heads the employment practice in Shanghai. He has been based in Greater China for over 12 years.

He advises international clients doing business in China on all aspects of labour and employment issues. His practice focuses on start-up employment issues including the drafting of all employment-related documentation for companies entering into the China market (such as employment contracts, employee handbooks, non-competition and non-disclosure agreements and IPR protection agreements), employee incentives, termination, redundancies, dispute resolution (including mediation and negotiation with employees), transfer of employees on business restructuring, secondment of employees and personal data privacy protection.

He also has extensive experience on a wide range of China and cross-border regional transactions, such as joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, venture capital financing, project financing and corporate restructuring and reorganisation.

He has wide industry experience having represented or advised multinationals in the entertainment, luxury apparel and goods, airline, information technology, telecommunications, healthcare, biotechnology and manufacturing sectors.

Kevin has delivered a number of lectures on PRC mergers and acquisitions at events such as the Asian Legal Business In-House Counsel Conference, the Singapore Chamber of Commerce China Series seminars and as guest lecturer to graduate law students at the South China Institute of Politics & Law in Shanghai. He has also written articles for various publications on PRC mergers and acquisitions and doing business in the PRC.

Key experience:

• Advising Cardinal Health on the restructuring of several foreign invested enterprises in the PRC
• Advising Blank Rome on PRC customs/anti-dumping/safeguard measures
• Advising Singapore Press Holdings on the structuring of a publishing operations/joint venture in Shanghai
• Advising Primus Telecommunications on PRC manufacturing and purchase arrangements
• Advising Paul Y - ITC Construction Holdings on a PRC joint venture relating to a harbour development
• Advising Bangkok Ranch on the structuring of poultry production and processing operations in the PRC
• Advising Animation International on a PRC intellectual property infringement litigation/administrative action
• Advising Vopak in relation to terminalling and storage facilities in the PRC
• Advising Style Plantation on a joint venture with a domestic PRC manufacturer
• Advising First Act on PRC processing trade