KenTang
Senior Associate
Corporate, Trusts and Estates
ktang@seyfarthshaw.com.cn
Renowned for innovative thinking and commercial acuity, Ken’s experience spans the full suite of corporate, and trusts and estates planning for high-net-worth individuals and their family businesses.
More About Ken
The legal and commercial markets in China, particularly in respect of cross-border investments and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals have been developing tremendously and quickly over the past half century. Ken’s understanding of complex trusts and estates laws, combined with his attention to his clients’ personal needs, makes him a dependable advisor and representative.
Ken is known for his “hands-on” approach and commitment to clients in their pursuit of corporate objectives and provides clients with solutions grounded in deep legal knowledge and sensitivity to their personal challenges. He also boasts significant international experience and has acted in various complex PRC and cross-border trusts and estates matters and disputes involving multiple legal systems, time zones, and industries.
In addition to his trusts and estates practice, Ken is also a corporate and commercial specialist. With a deep understanding of the unique Chinese market, the culture, the way of doing business in China, and the way of development, Ken advises foreign clients on foreign direct investment into China and representing companies in relation to the transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate governance, and premises and office leasing.
Ken has extensive corporate transactional experience, acting for various companies and investors in the implementation of complex structured transactions. He is regarded as a strategic problem-solver with a high degree of business acumen. Ken is highly active in advising Chinese outbound investors on their offshore investments across a wide range of sectors, including high-tech, energy and resources, and dairy products companies.
Ken is known for his “hands-on” approach and commitment to clients in their pursuit of corporate objectives and provides clients with solutions grounded in deep legal knowledge and sensitivity to their personal challenges. He also boasts significant international experience and has acted in various complex PRC and cross-border trusts and estates matters and disputes involving multiple legal systems, time zones, and industries.
In addition to his trusts and estates practice, Ken is also a corporate and commercial specialist. With a deep understanding of the unique Chinese market, the culture, the way of doing business in China, and the way of development, Ken advises foreign clients on foreign direct investment into China and representing companies in relation to the transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate governance, and premises and office leasing.
Ken has extensive corporate transactional experience, acting for various companies and investors in the implementation of complex structured transactions. He is regarded as a strategic problem-solver with a high degree of business acumen. Ken is highly active in advising Chinese outbound investors on their offshore investments across a wide range of sectors, including high-tech, energy and resources, and dairy products companies.
- LLM, Australian National University
- A legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal and High Courts of Australia
- Passed PRC judicial qualification exam
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Renowned for innovative thinking and commercial acuity, Ken’s experience spans the full suite of corporate, and trusts and estates planning for high-net-worth individuals and their family businesses.
More About Ken
The legal and commercial markets in China, particularly in respect of cross-border investments and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals have been developing tremendously and quickly over the past half century. Ken’s understanding of complex trusts and estates laws, combined with his attention to his clients’ personal needs, makes him a dependable advisor and representative.
Ken is known for his “hands-on” approach and commitment to clients in their pursuit of corporate objectives and provides clients with solutions grounded in deep legal knowledge and sensitivity to their personal challenges. He also boasts significant international experience and has acted in various complex PRC and cross-border trusts and estates matters and disputes involving multiple legal systems, time zones, and industries.
In addition to his trusts and estates practice, Ken is also a corporate and commercial specialist. With a deep understanding of the unique Chinese market, the culture, the way of doing business in China, and the way of development, Ken advises foreign clients on foreign direct investment into China and representing companies in relation to the transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate governance, and premises and office leasing.
Ken has extensive corporate transactional experience, acting for various companies and investors in the implementation of complex structured transactions. He is regarded as a strategic problem-solver with a high degree of business acumen. Ken is highly active in advising Chinese outbound investors on their offshore investments across a wide range of sectors, including high-tech, energy and resources, and dairy products companies.
Ken is known for his “hands-on” approach and commitment to clients in their pursuit of corporate objectives and provides clients with solutions grounded in deep legal knowledge and sensitivity to their personal challenges. He also boasts significant international experience and has acted in various complex PRC and cross-border trusts and estates matters and disputes involving multiple legal systems, time zones, and industries.
In addition to his trusts and estates practice, Ken is also a corporate and commercial specialist. With a deep understanding of the unique Chinese market, the culture, the way of doing business in China, and the way of development, Ken advises foreign clients on foreign direct investment into China and representing companies in relation to the transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate governance, and premises and office leasing.
Ken has extensive corporate transactional experience, acting for various companies and investors in the implementation of complex structured transactions. He is regarded as a strategic problem-solver with a high degree of business acumen. Ken is highly active in advising Chinese outbound investors on their offshore investments across a wide range of sectors, including high-tech, energy and resources, and dairy products companies.
- LLM, Australian National University
- A legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal and High Courts of Australia
- Passed PRC judicial qualification exam
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