The law in China - A fledging private system fearing it will be smothered

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June 20, 2014

ATI Magazine April/May 2014 issue

WITH the legal market globalising, China is not alone in fearing an inflow of foreign law firms, which have already snared most of the big deals being done in Singapore and Hong Kong, says Hunt & Hunt’s Jim Harrowell, one of Australia’s most experienced international lawyers. “I have some sympathy for them,” says Harrowell, but he is hopeful that Australian firms will be able to enter joint ventures and profit sharing with their Chinese counterparts by the end of this year . . .