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Shanghai-based Richard Wang & Co has a significant track record advising clients on maritime and shipping related issues, especially on contentious issues. Several of the firm’s partners are former judges in maritime courts. This gives the firm a competitive edge and insight when it comes to representing clients on shipping and maritime law related cases.

The firm’s maritime team regularly advises clients such as Maersk, DSR and BAX Global, and consults the government’s Shanghai Maritime Bureau and Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau on collision and environmental protection matters. Richard Wang & Co advises clients on the full range of maritime litigation issues including collisions, mediation, salvage, general average, insurance subrogation, environment and commercial disputes.

Richard Wang & Co remains one of Shanghai’s oldest and most established law firms, with additional offices in Tianjin, Beijing and New York. The privately owned firm has over 40 lawyers, many of whom are overseas trained or are overseas graduates. Richard Wang & Co advises clients on taxation practice and procedure, formalities and taxpaying technologies. The firm has good relationships with government entities, which allows the tax practice to deliver up-to-date information on tax law and policy. Richard Wang & Co often consults with major accounting firms in providing advisory services.