Mr. Pang specializes in helping multi-national companies in establishing a foothold and making an investment in China. He has substantial corporate and transactional experience, including M&A, foreign direct investments, corporate formation and government contracts, particularly as they relate to cross border transactions with China and Chinese state-owned enterprises. His expertise includes international distribution, retail distribution, vendor/supplier contracts, marketing agreements and joint ventures, both contractual and equity, particularly relating to China or with Chinese parties. Mr. Pang has been the principal driver behind over $5 billion of M&A transactions over the last 30 years, many of those transactions involved Sino-American parties. He also actively assists foreign enterprises to obtain difficult, hard to get licenses, permits, approvals and government support for entry into the highly regulated Chinese industries. As a lobbyist with many years of experience, Mr. Pang is well connected with the Central and many Provincial governments in China. Mr. Pang advises American companies on how to be competitive in the China and global economy and has held various senior level legal positions, board seats and executive management roles.
Mr. Pang’s expertise also include intellectual property prosecution, licensing and litigation for clients engaged in the following industries, including information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, gaming, telecommunications, retailing, television and consumer products. Mr. Pang has written chapters on trade secrets and technology transfer for the State Bar of California and University of California at Berkeley’s joint venture, Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB). Mr. Pang also specializes in protecting Famous American Brands from piracy and counterfeiting in China. His knowledge and network of investigators are capable of undercover investigation of a potential infringer, conducting a raid and seizure of the contrabands if justified in conjunction with local authorities and then filing administrative legal actions for damages. As a former in-house lawyer for Shell Oil Company and Dole Foods Company, Mr. Pang was principally responsible for the management and implementation of the worldwide intellectual property (patents, trademarks and copyrights) portfolio of those two companies, including strategic offensive protection and registration of trademark rights. As outside counsel to a number of Fortune 1000 companies, Mr. Pang is responsible not only for overseeing their international portfolio of trademarks, but specific design and implementation of a trademark strategy and enforcement in the People’s Republic of China, where many infringements have occurred. Most recently, Mr. Pang just concluded a multi-million dollar settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit in Macau SAR.
Mr. Pang speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, is a graduate of UC Berkeley in Biochemistry, Santa Clara Law School where he was a member of Law Review, University of Houston with a LLM in International Economic Law, attended certificated program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He also studied law and economics in China and Hong Kong. He is admitted to practice in California, Texas, New York, DC and Pennsylvania.
Accomplishments include:
Chief lobbyist and negotiator for bwin interactive Entertainment in China; principally responsible for advising the Austrian publicly listed company and the world's largest online entertainment company on legal parameters for online entertainment in China.
Chief Representative, Legal Counsel and Operating Officer for a Las Vegas based company focused on bringing lotteries to China.
Chief negotiator for an Australian company in the procurement of the first Gold License to a foreign enterprise.
Responsible for bringing TVSN Home Shopping Network to China through successful negotiation of the seminal television broadcast contract with CETV, which program is still running after 8 years (a historic first for China).
Organized and founded, with the late Henry Fok, a logistics center in Nansha, Guangdong Province, which now serves as the logistics capital to Southern China.
Negotiated and procured the permission from the Chinese government to allow the first western company (Las Vegas, NV) to sponsor and operate a lottery - including scratch tickets, lotto's etc. on Mainland.
Negotiated, acquired and operated a digital mobile game developer in China and expanded its offerings to over 55 games.
Submitted a bid for two giant pandas for the City of Oakland to the Central Conservation Association of China and completed with Memphis, TN for the rights (Memphis won).
On the mayor's list of special legal attache in the fight against counterfeiters in Guangdong Province.
Negotiated and procured the first gaming television show with SMG in Shanghai for a Western Company and executive produced 31 television shows in 2004.
Obtained the right for a US publicly listed company to distribute HIV detection equipment in China - a right that is tightly controlled and not granted easily.
Developed key relationships that lay the foundation for entry of new biometric payment systems into China in conjunction with the State owned China Union Pay.
In his career as an attorney, consultant and businessman, Mr. Pang has helped over 100 companies to obtain difficult approvals from the Chinese Government, solve complex problems and recognize untapped business opportunities.