Hogan Lovells US LLP

Corporate

Partner

Philip Cheng is our go-to-strategist and fixer in Shanghai. Large corporate reorganizations, joint venture strategies, navigating data protection rules, and difficult employee terminations are the things that people have gone to him for.

He started as a China corporate practitioner focusing on mergers and acquisitions and foreign direct investment in 1999, before the legal services market expanded under the World Trade Organization. These days, he does much more, handling some of the most entrenched issues for household names and international businesses within the region.

Phil walks Western enterprises through the legal and commercial landscape during the entire life cycle of their investments and dealings in China. Many of his sector areas of focus are heavily regulated – pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, industrial products, automotive, and hospitality.

He is the person you want in strategy sessions, crisis situations, and where difficult judgment calls need to be made.

He is recommended for Corporate and M&A in China by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific and is listed as a Leading Individual in the Employment practice by Chambers Asia Pacific and IFLR 1000.

English, Cantonese, Mandarin

J.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 2000

B.A., Pomona College, 1994