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Deal Boosts Womble Carlyle's Emerging China Practice

September 20, 2007

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The firm’s Guanming Fang helped bring Sany Heavy Industry’s U.S. plant to Georgia

A major Chinese construction equipment maker's announcement Wednesday, (September 12) that it is opening a plant in Peachtree City was a milestone for the emerging China practice of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, the law firm that brokered the deal. In a deal two years in the making, Sany Heavy Industry Co. will launch a $30 million assembly plant in Peachtree Industrial Park.

"It's been a long relationship," said Womble’s Guanming Fang, the firm's lead lawyer on the project.

A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among AmLaw's 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states. The firm is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award, making Womble Carlyle the first law firm ever to receive the highest honor given to a business organization in recognition of its support of the Fund and its 45 member educational institutions.

Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with nearly 550 attorneys in eleven offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore, MD. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally.