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Announcing Our Founding Member Firms

SINO INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

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Announcing Our Founding Member Firms

About

SIPAC (the Sino International Professional Advisory Council) is a global network of leading China desks built to service all facets of the Chinese legal market. Our advisors are recognized for their comprehensive expertise and experience in helping Chinese companies with their matters overseas. Our members are exclusively from top tier law firms who uphold our service values as an elite network of China Desks.

SIPAC connects

Chinese in-house counsel and law firms with our vetted list of expert legal advisors, to assist Chinese companies in key jurisdictions around the world.

Our mission

is to ensure Chinese companies can conduct business overseas with confidence.

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Leadership

ROBERT LEWIS

Chairman

Mr. Lewis has practiced law for more than 35 years, with nearly 30 years in China, focusing primarily on cross-border M&A and other international transactions.
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Mr. Lewis has practiced law for more than 35 years, almost 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.

JONATHAN BELL

CEO

Jonathan has more than a decade’s experience in the legal media industry, representing leading brands such as Thomson Reuters, Practical Law and Lexology.
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Jonathan has more than a decade’s experience in the legal media industry, representing leading brands such as Thomson Reuters, Practical Law and Lexology. He has worked in a range of commercial leadership roles in the UK and Hong Kong, focusing on content marketing, event management, LegalTech, management consultancy, and professional network development.

In addition to his work with SIPAC, Jonathan founded the Hong Kong Legal Walk, an annual charitable initiative, through which he has united Hong Kong’s legal community in support of local charities.

SARA YU

Head of Outbound Content

Sara is a practicing lawyer in China. She has worked for several years in a Red Circle firm in China serving foreign and foreign-invested enterprises as external counsel.
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Sara is a practicing lawyer in China. She has worked for several years in a Red Circle firm in China serving foreign and foreign-invested enterprises as external counsel. During this period, her main practice areas were domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and general corporate affairs.

Sara is also a founding team member of SIPAC partner docQbot, the first bilingual automated contract know-how platform in China, responsible for Chinese content development and supporting offline services. She currently is a Senior Associate at Chance Bridge Law Firm in Beijing.

Yang liming

Head of Channel Partnerships

Liming is a lawyer based in Beijing. He has worked in a Red Circle firm in China for several years.
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Liming is a lawyer based in Beijing. He has worked in a Red Circle firm in China for several years. He also has comprehensive experience in the legal tech industry. He is one of the first and most experienced automated template authors in China.

Liming is also the deputy general manager of SIPAC partner docQbot, the first bilingual automated contract know-how platform in China, focusing on partner relationships and overall product development.

Charles Saxe Levy

Strategic Advisor

Having recently moved back to Silicon Valley from Hong Kong, Charles is an entrepreneur at heart.
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Having recently moved back to Silicon Valley from Hong Kong, Charles is an entrepreneur at heart.

His career has evolved from founding several entrepreneurial businesses to managing startups and investments. Charles has a keen interest in the markets and specialises in macroeconomics and geopolitics. In other words, understanding anything that affects his investments is of utmost importance.

This skill has enabled Charles to keep ahead of the curve, identify emerging opportunities, devise astute strategies to ensure success, all to help his portfolio maintain a strategic edge.

Currently, he focuses on providing strategic guidance and advice in the realms of growth, investments, and innovation.