Lawyer Bio : Guanming Fang

Guanming Fang

Atlanta

 
Guanming Fang is a Member in Womble Carlyle's Corporate and Securities Practice Group and the team leader of the Firm's China Initiative. She advises mid-market companies in their mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, private equity transactions, and other corporate transactions. She has represented U.S. and international (particularly Chinese) clients across a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, service, life sciences, and information technology.
 
Guanming brings to the service of her clients her unique bi-cultural and bi-lingual background. Guanming grew up in China and is fluent in Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese, in addition to English. Her innate understanding of the Chinese culture enables her to explain complex U.S. legal principles and business issues in a language and manner that is easy for her Chinese clients to understand. She also uses this unique background to help U.S. companies navigate the intricate political, legal, economic and relationship web in China. Guanming is a frequent speaker on legal issues relating to U.S.-China cross-border transactions.
 
Guanming is the co-author of Investing in Private U.S. Companies, a Special China Edition of the Growth Company Guide, TechJournal South, 2009; and Guide for Expanding into the U.S. Market, 2010.
 
Guanming is also the co-founder and Chairman of Georgia-China Alliance, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting business exchanges between the United States and China.
 
Representative U.S. - China Transactions
  • Represent U.S. research institute in its high profile strategic alliance with a Chinese biotech company and a Chinese high technology development zone.
  • Represent Chinese companies in their expansion into the U.S. market, including developing investment strategies; negotiating incentives and other investment conditions with state and local governments; negotiating investment and real estate acquisition documents; structuring, negotiating and documenting business transactions with third parties; and providing general counsel regarding the U.S. market and legal environment.
  • Represent company with operations in China in its private offering in the U.S. market.
  • Represent U.S. companies in structuring, negotiating and drafting various contracts with Chinese companies, including technology license agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, and service agreements.
  • Represent U.S. companies in their expansion into the Chinese market, including establishing representative offices, joint ventures and wholly-owned subsidiaries.
 
Other Representative Transactions
  • Lead U.S. counsel for global acquisition transactions of a Japanese company with a total purchase price of over $300 million.
  • Lead counsel in the sale of a business for a cash payment of $8 million and an earn-out of up to $20 million.
  • Primary counsel in a complex acquisition of a company for a purchase price of over $23 million, involving the acquisition of stock from an ESOP with a Section 338(h)(10) election, separate acquisition of several real properties in a 1031 like-kind exchange, and a divestiture of a business division prior to the closing.
  • Primary counsel in the acquisition of the assets of a company for a purchase price of over $100 million.
  • Represent a public REIT in its reorganization and sale over a period of more than two years.
 
Honors
  • Named to "Georgia Rising Stars" by Atlanta Magazine
  • Named to "Who’s Who in Law & Accounting" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle
  • Named to “Who’s Who in Asian American Communities” by the WWAAC Committee
Guanming is the author of the China Practice Blog.

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Professional Activities

Bar Associations: State Bar of Georgia, Business and International Sections, Executive Committee, Technology Law Section, 2003-2005.

Admitted to bar 1998, Georgia.

Civic Activities

  • Co-founder and Chairman, Georgia China Alliance;
  • Fellow, Society of International Business Fellows
  • Board of Directors, Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association;
  • Advisory Board, China Research Center;
  • Board of Directors, Zoo Atlanta, 2006-2008;
  • Board of Directors, Chinese Business Association of Atlanta, 2001-2005;
  • Board of Directors, National Association of Chinese Americans – Atlanta Chapter, 1999-2000.

Education

B.A., 1985, Zhongshan University, P.R.C.; J.D., magna cum laude, 1998, Florida State University College of Law, Order of the Coif.

Prior Legal Experience

Associate, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998-2006;
 
Summer Associate, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997.

Presentations

Sample Presentations
 
“China's Labor Contract Law, Its Impacts and Outlook,” Luncheon Briefing, co-sponsored by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC and China Research Center, June 25, 2009.
 
“Negotiating and Drafting Partnership and Outsourcing Agreements,” The Legalities of Doing Business in China, organized by National Business Institute, August 19, 2008.
 
“New Legal Developments and Challenges,” China Business Briefing, organized by China Research Center, February 22, 2008.
 
“The Challenges of Doing Business in China,” Doing Business in China: The Ethical Landscape, organized by the Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, July 26, 2007.
 
“Introduction of the New Chinese Company Law,” Doing Business in China Seminar, organized by The Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, September 29, 2006.
 
“Negotiating Contracts with Chinese Businesses,” Doing Business in China Seminar, organized by The Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, September 28, 2005.
 
“China’s Implementation of Its WTO Commitments and Its Effects on Business,” The U.S.-China Business Forum: Building Prosperity Between Georgia and China, organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, May 4, 2005.

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Areas of Proficiency

  • Corporate
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Licensing
  • Private Equity Transactions 

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