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Mao Rong’s practice areas focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions involving China and the United States. In more than twenty years' practice, Mao Rong has advised US and European multinational companies on foreign direct investment in China, business operations, employment, advertising and sponsorship, product liability, customer complaints and intellectual property protections. 

Prior to joining the firm, Mao Rong worked at Eastman Kodak Company as an in-house corporate counsel for more than 10 years.  Mao Rong has experience of all kinds of legal issues relating to the day-to-day business operations of multinationals in China. Mao Rong has advised clients on setting up and implementing corporate governance and compliance programs in China, conducting legal training, and establishing internal control programs as well as managing locally the company’s worldwide merger and acquisition projects and transactions.

Publications

• Co-author, "Taxation of Business Enterprises", Doing Business in China, Matthew Bender, 1993
• Co-author, "Foreign Law Firms in China: New Registration Regulations", East Asian Executive Reports, 1992
• "China Concept Shares and China Funds", China Securities Newspaper, September 16, 1993 (in Chinese)
• "Antidumping Law of the United States and Antidumping Cases Against Chinese Companies", Economic Reference Newspaper, April 20, 1994 (in Chinese)
• Co-author, Handbook of Foreign Economic and Trade - the US Law Chapter, China Financial and Economic Press, 1995 (in Chinese)

Speeches / Presentations

• Mao Rong has been a frequent speaker at high profile legal conferences and seminars on Chinese law and doing business in China

Experience

Legal Education

Professional Admissions / Qualifications

• New York
• China

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York