Top Beijing Lawyer for Lovells Leaving for Chinese Firm
The managing partner of Lovells' Beijing office is leaving for Chinese firm Allbright Law Offices. Because Chinese restrictions on foreign lawyers prevent Robert Lewis from being a partner, he will be a senior international legal consultant in the Beijing office of Shanghai-based Allbright. The move makes the 52-year-old Lewis -- a Beijing partner at U.K.-based Lovells since 2001 and before that Asia GC for telecommunications firm Nortel -- one of the most senior Western lawyers to join a domestic law firm in China.
