Dr. Sven-Michael Werner, LL.M. (Hong Kong University) – Partner
Unit 1509, United Plaza
No. 1468, Nanjing West Road
Shanghai 200040
People's Republic of China
Tel. +86 (0) 21 62 47 72 47
Fax. +86 (0) 21 62 47 72 48
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Sven-Michael is a corporate lawyer and member of our China Group. He assists and advises European clients in relation to inward investment projects into China with a focus on M&A and private equity transactions. He is being regularly involved in relation to Hong Kong aspects of investment projects. Sven-Michael has conducted several due diligence examinations in relation to manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceutical enterprises in China.
He was educated at Hamburg University for his law degree and at the University of Hong Kong in Chinese commercial and foreign investment law. For his doctoral thesis on the return of Hong Kong to China he obtained a Ph.D. degree from Hamburg University. After two years of legal practice in China at a leading international law firm in Shanghai as well as at the German Embassy in Beijing, Sven-Michael was admitted to the German bar in January 2004. He has been working in our offices in Munich, London and Shanghai.
Sven-Michael publishes regularly on law issues relating to China and serves as a speaker on China-related seminars and training, e. g. with the Munich Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
Sven-Michael, a native German speaker, is fluent in English and speaks Mandarin Chinese and French.