Ralph Koppitz – Partner

Ralph Koppitz

Representative Office

Unit 1509, United Plaza
No. 1468, Nanjing West Road
Shanghai 200040
People's Republic of China

Tel. +86 (0) 21 62 47 72 47
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Ralph advises German and international manufacturing and service companies on all legal aspects related to their business transactions in China. This includes the areas of foreign direct investment, M&A (share and asset deal acquisitions, mergers of foreign invested enterprises, equity transfers), restructuring and liquidation, technology transfer, and labour law. Ralph has specific experience in the manufacturing (including medical devices, pharmaceutical, chemical), and service sectors (including logistics, trading and certification services). Increasingly important becomes the advice concerning China-outbound M&A and direct Chinese investments in Germany.

Ralph studied law at the University of Munich. In 1996/1997 he studied Chinese language at Beijing Normal University in China under a scholarship granted by the German Academic Exchange Service.  In 1997, Ralph was admitted to the Munich bar. From 1997 to 2002 he worked in the Beijing office of a major international law firm. In the year 2002, he joined Taylor Wessing as partner and head of the Shanghai office.

Due to his long term secondment to China, Ralph has established close contacts with relevant local and national authorities and institutions.
He served as Chairman of the EU Chamber's "Intellectual Property Rights Working Group" and member of the Boards of both the EU and the German Chamber of Commerce in China. Since 2010, he is elected as member to the board of the German School in Shanghai. He is also author of numerous publications on the Chinese legal environment.

Ralph, a native German speaker, is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and French.

 

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