Our Partners and Special Advisers have held senior positions at many top tier institutions including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank), Morgan Stanley, Dresdner Bank, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, The First Boston Corporation, Citibank, Zurich Financial Group, AEGON, Bear Stearns, Manufacturers Hanover (now J.P. Morgan Chase), Credit Suisse First Boston, Bank of China International, CITIC, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, Wing Lung Bank, China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Seven of us are resident in Beijing; three in Hong Kong; and the others in the United States and Europe.

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Our Beijing Office is headed by Dr. Po-Wen Huang, Taishan Capital's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, assisted by a highly qualified and energetic group of young Chinese and Western staffers. They have been graduates of such institutions as Yale, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford, the U.S. Naval Academy, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge, University of London, University of Lausanne, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, and Renmin University.

We live and work in China and Greater China, and have a thorough understanding of China's unique business environment. We also have years of experience in the United States, Europe, and other parts of Asia. This gives us a very global outlook, perfectly placed to understand the aspirations and concerns relating to cross-border transactions from both Chinese and international perspectives.