Our Beijing office works closely together with our Hong Kong office to expand the breadth of our Firm's China practice and transactional capabilities. The Firm's China practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and representation of private equity clients, both in buyouts and fund formation. We are also engaged in acquisition finance and lending, other corporate and commercial transactions and provide counsel to our U.S. offices in the representation of Asian clients in U.S. litigation matters. Working in tandem with our offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and London, we provide truly global capability for both local and international clients. The Firm's more than 45 Asia practice lawyers have direct expertise in all corporate matters. More than 15 of our lawyers in Asia are fluent in Mandarin Chinese, all of whom are members of the Bar of The State of New York, and have considerable transaction experience in China.