Cleary Gottlieb Adds China Practice Partner Megan Tang in Hong Kong

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced today that Megan Tang, counsel at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Hong Kong, will join the firm as a partner, effective November 10.

Megan will be based in the firm’s Hong Kong office and will focus on the firm’s China practice, including advising on capital markets transactions for investment banking and corporate clients of the firm in China and throughout Asia.

“Megan’s broad experience in China and across Asia makes her a perfect fit for Cleary Gottlieb and our China practice,” said firm Managing Partner Mark Walker. “Based in Hong Kong, she has represented issuers and underwriters in a wide variety of U.S. and Hong Kong capital markets transactions involving Chinese issuers. She also has experience working on transactions in India, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries in Asia.”

“Megan will significantly enhance our China practice resources and capabilities,” he continued. “We are proud to welcome her to the firm.”

At Cleary Gottlieb, Ms. Tang will work together with partners Clay Johnson in Hong Kong and Filip Moerman in Beijing in the firm’s China practice, including China capital markets and M&A transactions.

Ms. Tang’s experience includes acting as U.S. counsel for issuers and underwriters in a broad range of initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings and convertible bond offerings involving Chinese issuers, including U.S. SEC-registered offerings, Rule 144A/Reg S offerings and Hong Kong-listed offerings. Her recent experience includes representing the underwriters in the $22 billion initial public offering of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, and acting as counsel in offerings by China Medical Technologies, Suntech Power Holdings, ReneSola, China Telecom Corporation, China Coal Energy Company, Xinyuan Real Estate and Little Sheep Group, among others.

Ms. Tang joined Shearman & Sterling LLP in 2001 and was originally based in the Singapore office until transferring to New York later that year. She relocated to the Hong Kong office in 2004, where she has helped to develop and support Shearman & Sterling’s China practice. In 2006, she was elected counsel.

With the addition of Ms. Tang, the firm will have eight partners in Hong Kong and Beijing, three of whom work in the firm’s China practice, and 192 partners worldwide.

“Cleary Gottlieb’s strong practice in China and the rest of Asia, combined with its commitment to further growth and impressive track record of highly consistent and excellent legal work, presents a wonderful opportunity for me to expand my practice while at the same time bolster the firm’s capabilities,” commented Ms. Tang. “I’m very excited to join Cleary Gottlieb and to work with the outstanding lawyers there to further develop the firm’s practice in China and the region.”

Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Ms. Tang was an associate in the Singapore office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP from July 1999 through December 2000. She was a trainee solicitor in the Hong Kong office of Simmons & Simmons, before qualifying in 1997. She transferred to Simmons’ London office in 1998, where she remained until June 1999.

Ms. Tang received an LL.B. degree from King’s College, University of London, in 1995. She is a member of the Bar of New York, is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, and qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong. She is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.