Womble Carlyle's Guanming Fang is carving out a niche with Chinese companies setting up shop in the United States. But when she started practicing law in 1998, she had no idea China would become so hot. "There is a much better opportunity for people like me who understand Chinese businessmen and can provide hand-holding for exploiting this market," says Fang, who majored in English lit at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, her hometown, and covered the United States and Europe as a journalist in Beijing.
June 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When Guanming Fang arrived in the United States from China at age 24, she did not think culture shock would be a problem. She’d majored in English literature at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, her hometown, and had covered the United States and Europe as a journalist in Beijing.
“I was so wrong,” she said with a laugh over bottled water at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, where, at 43, she is now an M&A lawyer carving out a niche with Chinese companies setting up shop in the United States.
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