Chinese firm Gaopeng & Partners has hired a Microsoft in-house lawyer as a senior partner in Beijing.
Ron Xie was most recently a Beijing-based general manager and assistant general counsel for Microsoft Corp.’s global sales group, responsible for litigation and antitrust. Microsoft is among the multinationals that are currently under investigations by the Chinese government for antimonopoly law violations. Chinese state regulators such as Ministry of Commerce, National Development and Reform Commission and the Administration for Industry and Commerce have intensified antitrust enforcement in the past two years.
