Edward J. Epstein
Partner
Managing Partner - Shanghai Office
Shanghai
Business Phone:
86.21.6133.8998
edward.epstein@troutmansanders.com
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Troutman Sanders Shanghai Managing Partner Edward Epstein focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate development and investment, and Foreign Direct Investment, especially in the manufacturing sector. During more than 20 years supporting multinational companies in China, his practice has extended to general corporate law, including employment law, intellectual property rights, and dispute resolution, and in the service industries, such as retail and trading and distribution.
Epstein took his B.A. and LL.B. from the Australian National University, received an LL.M. from Columbia University, and is admitted to practice in Australia, Hong Kong and England. He was among the first western scholars to study law in China, at the Chinese People’s University in Beijing, after law schools on the mainland re-opened in the 1980s. Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and German, Epstein writes and speaks frequently on Chinese legal topics, and is sought after as an expert witness on Chinese law. He has also represented foreign clients before the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).
Presentations and Speaking Engagements
"Unwanted Guests? Foreign Investors Developing and Investing in Real Estate in China Today." at 5th Annual Summit on Legal, Tax & Financial Strategies for Doing Business in China, New York, 12 December, 2007
Selected Publications
"Business in China? Here's Some Tips..." Atlanta Business Chronicle, April 4, 2008
Understanding the Impact of China's New Labor Contract Law, www.bizchinaupdate.com, September, 2007
Doing Business in China, Chapters on Product Liability and Civil Law, 2006
Codification of Civil Law in the People's Republic of China: Form and Substance in the Reception of Concepts and Elements of Western Private Law in University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, 1998
The Concept of Dangerousness in the People's Republic of China and its Impact on the Treatment of Prisoners in British Journal of Criminology, Vol 36, No. 4, 1996
World Antitrust Law and Practice Chapter 38: People's Republic of China in (J. Garrett ed.) Little and Brown, 1995
Law and Legitimation in Post-Mao China in China's Law Reforms (P. Potter ed.), M.E. Sharpe: New York, 1994
Work Experience
Managing Partner, Shanghai Office, Troutman Sanders LLP, 2006-present
Partner, Salans, 2004-2006
Partner, Altheimer & Gray, 1998-2003