Member Profile

Peter Pang is the founder and Chairman of the newly combined IPO PANG XINGPU Law Firm where he leads a team of lawyers with offices in China and North America. He has over 35 years of experience as a practicing attorney, over 20 of which were spent in the People’s Republic of China. As the new Chairman of IPO PANG XINGPU, Mr. Pang is poised to lead the newly combined firm into its next phase as a global professional services provider for China Ventures. Mr. Pang’s primary practice is focused in 4 areas: 3 inbound to China (IP, FDI and M&A) and 1 outbound from China (Outbound Foreign Direct Investment) where Mr. Pang connects SME’s and high net worth Chinese investors with investment opportunities outside of China in the areas of high tech (medical technology in particular), real estate and M&A opportunities in the automotive, manufacturing, environmental and green technology fields.

Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Pang served as in-house corporate and IP counsel at Shell Oil Company, M&A attorney for Hershey Foods, Vice President and General Counsel for Dole Packaged Food Corporation, Chief Corporate Counsel for Nissan North America, EVP and GC for Win Win Gaming, Inc. and Legal Representative for bwin Interactive Gaming AG. He also practiced as a partner at the Oakland firm Wendel, Rosen, Black and Dean LLP and the San Francisco firm Landels, Ripley and Diamond LLP. Most recently, Mr. Pang completed a three year stint as Of Counsel to the U.S. Michigan based law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC, working out of their Washington DC office, where he primarily focused on international business transactions.

Mr. Pang is currently active in practicing cross border mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, intellectual property law, commercial contracts and dispute resolution. He has written numerous books and articles on Chinese law and legal issues. He is also a frequent speaker at international bar organizations.

Mr. Pang serves on the anti-counterfeiting committee as a Committee Leader at the International Trademark Association (INTA) for 2015-2016. He and the firm are members of the International Business Law Consortium; International Referral, American Bar Association International Law Section, Alliance of Mergers and Acquisition Advisors and numerous other professional and civic organizations. The firm has been nominated by leading organizations as the “China Investment Law Firm of the Year”, “Intellectual Property Firm of the Year”, “Corporate Law Firm of the Year”, and numerous other awards.

Mr. Pang is not only a China Expert, but he is also a global visionary, helping Chinese businesses expand their reach and footprint throughout North America and Europe. Mr. Pang has had a successful track record in matching Chinese outbound ambitions with Western offerings. With both the national and international perspective and having worked and lived in North America, Asia and Europe, Mr. Pang understands the cultural differences between the East and the West and can help international clients successfully and efficiently meander through the Chinese bureaucratic and regulatory red-tape, and vice versa, working with Chinese enterprises, Mr. Pang’s vast international network of attorneys, accountants and local partners can help Chinese businesses realize their ambitions.

Mr. Pang is a graduate of UC Berkeley in Biochemistry, Santa Clara University Law School where he was on the Law Review, and University of Houston where he obtained his LLM. He also attended a certificate program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is admitted to practice in California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC. and numerous US Federal District Courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the International Trade Commission.

IPO Pang has been in China since the early 1990s and is known as one of the oldest joint venture law firms. Based in Shanghai with affiliate offices in the U.S., the firm is ranked as one of the top international boutique firms with operations in China.

IPO Pang functions through a number of partners and specialists that operate together as an international team and provides the personalized service that clients need in order to operate in a highly complex and changing legal environment. As a member of the International Business Law Consortium and International Referral organizations, the firm further extends its international network to include a team of highly selective, experienced, reputable attorneys, accountants, and other professionals who can assist and execute in nearly every country of the world. As each case is personally handled by a shareholder of the firm, we take pride in this method of client service as it enables each partner to take individual responsibility for delivering outstanding quality and value for each assignment.

Whether we are focused on building our firm reputation or in representing our foreign enterprise clients, IPO Pang treats every endeavor with integrity and dignity and greets every problem with innovation and imagination. As the late Bobby Kennedy often said in his speeches citing George Bernard Shaw: “Some men see things as they are, and ask why; we dream things that never were, and ask, why not?”