Reed Smith has hired former Simmons & Simmons’ Beijing office head, Eric Lin, as a partner for its energy and natural resources industry group in the Chinese capital.
Lin, who is qualified in the U.S. and the U.K., focuses on mergers and acquisitions, and energy and natural resources projects development and financing. In 2016, he represented Shell International Ltd., a London-based management consulting arm of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc., on a $10 billion petrochemical joint-venture project with China National Offshore Oil Corp. in the southern Chinese city of Huizhou.
