{"id":406,"date":"2019-02-02T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlsorgs3stg.wpenginepowered.com\/cla\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:48:42","slug":"2020-china-law-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/cla\/past-symposium-events\/2020-china-law-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 China Law Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

November 11\u201313, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Symposium Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erich Andersen<\/strong> is the Global General Counsel for ByteDance Ltd, where he reports to the CEO.   ByteDance is the company that owns TikTok, the hugely popular short-form mobile video app with over 100 million users in the US.  He has responsibility for the company\u2019s international legal affairs and regularly works with company leaders and external stakeholders on issues at the intersection of law and technology.   In recent months, Erich has been leading the company\u2019s work on US national security legal challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erich previously worked at Microsoft for 24 years where he held numerous senior roles, including as Chief IP Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for the Windows and Office product groups.  He was also based in Paris for three years while he served as head of legal and government affairs for Microsoft EMEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before joining Microsoft, Andersen served as a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court. He began his law practice with Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle, Washington.  Erich graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1986 and from the UCLA School of Law in 1989, where he served as Chief Managing Editor of the law review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I. The Future of US-China Relations<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonnie Glaser:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonnie S. Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she works on issues related to Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. From 2008 to 2015, Ms. Glaser was a senior adviser with the Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to mid-2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has written extensively on Chinese foreign and security policy. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yasheng Huang:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management<\/em> and Faculty Director of Action Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Between 2013 and 2017, he served as an Associate Dean in charge of MIT Sloan\u2019s global partnership programs and its action learning initiatives. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang is currently involved in research projects in four broad areas: 1) a book project titled The Nature of the Chinese State<\/em>, 2) collaboration with researchers at Tsinghua University to create a complete database on historical technological inventions in China, 3) as a co-PI in \u201cFood Safety in China: A Systematic Risk Management Approach\u201d (supported by Walmart Foundation, 2016-on), and 4) research on venture finance, production of scientific knowledge, work of the future in China. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and in media and 11 books in English and Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At MIT Sloan, Huang founded and directs China Lab and India Lab, which have provided low-cost consulting services to over 360 small and medium enterprises in China and India. Between 2015 and 2018, he ran a program in Yunnan province to train small and medium women entrepreneurs (funded by Goldman Sachs Foundation). He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as the National Fellowship at Stanford University and the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. He was named by the National Asia Research Program as one of the most outstanding scholars in the United States conducting research on issues of policy importance to the United States. He is or has been a Fellow at the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a Research Fellow at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, a Fellow at William Davidson Institute at Michigan Business School, and a World Economic Forum Fellow. He has served as a consultant at World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and OECD and is serving on a number of advisory and corporate boards of non-profit and for-profit organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yukon Huang:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yukon Huang is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. and a noted expert on China\u2019s economy and its regional and global impact. He was formerly the World Bank\u2019s Country Director for China. He is an advisor to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and various governments and corporations.  Dr. Huang has published widely on US-China economic and foreign policy issues.  His articles are seen frequently in the <\/span>New York Times, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy<\/span><\/i>.  His latest book is <\/span>Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong<\/span><\/i> (Oxford University Press).  He has a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BA from Yale University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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II. The Shifting Landscapes of US-China Cross-border Transactions<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GangQiao (John) Wang:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GangQiao (John) Wang is of counsel at Ropes & Gray practicing in the corporate department. John has extensive asset management experience in advising U.S. and global alternative asset managers in a wide range of matters related to fund formation and capital raising, governance, compliance and internal operations. John\u2019s experience includes advising clients on the formation and operation of private equity funds, healthcare funds, credit funds, venture capital funds, infrastructure funds, funds of funds and separate accounts. John also represents U.S. and international institutional investors (including endowments, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, funds of funds, private foundations, and family offices) in investing in U.S., European, Asian and Latin American leverage buyout, venture capital, real estate, energy, mezzanine and hedge fund investments, in primary, secondary and coinvestment transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, John worked as an intern at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York City and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to studying at Harvard Law School, John worked in a law firm in Shanghai and taught Chinese law as a full time faculty member at Fudan University Law School in Shanghai. He has passed the National Bar Examination of P.R. China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winston Ma:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/b>Winston Ma, CFA & Esq., Chairman of Advisory Board, OPEN MINERAL; former Managing Director, China Investment Corporation (CIC) <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China. Most recently, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, for 10 years. Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A nationally certified Software Programmer as early as 1994,  Mr. Ma is the book author of <\/span>China’s Mobile Economy<\/span><\/i> (Wiley 2016, among \u201cbest 2016 business books for CIOs\u201d), <\/span>Digital Economy 2.0<\/span><\/i> (2017 Chinese), <\/span>The Digital Silk Road<\/span><\/i> (2018 German), <\/span>China\u2019s AI Big Bang<\/span><\/i> (2019 Japanese), and <\/span>Investing in China<\/span><\/i> (Risk Books, 2006). His new books in 2020 are \u201c<\/span>The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy<\/span><\/i>\u201d (Wiley October 2020) and \u201c<\/span>The Digital War<\/span><\/i> – <\/span>How China\u2019s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain, and Cyberspace<\/span><\/i>\u201d (Wiley December 2020).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and has been a member of the Council for Long-Term Investing and Council for Digital Economy and Society. He is a member of New York University (NYU) President\u2019s Global Council since inception, and in 2014 he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Shoesmith (\u82cf\u5510\u660e):<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/b>Thomas M. Shoesmith is a partner at King & Wood Mallesons. He specializes in international M&A, cross-border investment and financing, multinational joint ventures, and commercial transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a partner in the corporate and securities practice, Mr. Shoesmith is a leading cross-border transaction expert. He specializes in cross-border transactions between China and the United States, and is particularly skilled at structuring transactions for clients in complex regulatory and political environments. Mr. Shoesmith has over 30 years-experience practicing in these areas. He has handled more than 200 cross-border M&A transactions, and complex multinational joint ventures in more than 50 countries around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Shoesmith has lived in Asia for more than 20 years and practiced in China from 2003 to 2010. Since then, he has focused on foreign-related transactions in China, including foreign direct investment in China, financing in Chinese companies, and IPO\u2019s in the US for PRC-based businesses. Mr. Shoesmith is currently based in Silicon Valley and is a frequent traveler between China and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Shoesmith joined King & Wood Mallesons in 2019. Prior to that time, he was the head of the China Practice of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and partner of a number of well-known international law firms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Shoesmith graduated from Harvard Law School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Shoesmith is admitted to practice in the State of California. His is comfortable working in English or Chinese.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Shoesmith\u2019s representative project experiences include:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n