Mr. Lewis has practiced law for more than 35 years, over 30 years of which have been in China, focusing primarily on cross-border M&A and other international transactions.  He was the first senior foreign lawyer to move from a leading international law firm to a top Chinese law firm, working as Senior International Counsel with Zhong Lun Law Firm in Beijing for 10 years. He previously served as managing partner of the Beijing office of Lovells (now Hogan Lovells) for nine years and, prior to that, he was Asia General Counsel for Nortel Networks.  Earlier in his career, he worked with Sidley & Austin in Los Angeles for six years and in 1993 joined the China Practice Group of Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Mr. Lewis is also co-founder of SIPAC partner docQbot, the first bilingual automated contract know-how platform in China, and co-founder of the leading overseas investment information and consulting platform – the China Going Global Think-tank (CGGT).  He is currently also Senior International Consultant with Chance Bridge Law Firm in Beijing and Shanghai. His publications include The Dawn of a New Era for FDI in China: A Practical Guide to China’s New Foreign Investment Law and The Rules of the Game of Global M&A: Why so Many Chinese Outbound Investments Fail, among others.