Bob Kwauk is the Office Managing Partner of the Beijing office. He relocated from the Firm's Calgary office to establish its Beijing office in 1998 and has resided there since that time. Previous to this assignment, Bob's experience in China included teaching economics and finance at a University in Xian in the late 1980s; a secondment to a law firm in Taipei in the early 1990s; and acting as counsel for a major Africa-based energy project invested by the national oil company of China in the mid-1990s.
Bob's practice includes assisting Canadian and other international companies investing and doing business in China. He has extensive experience in strategizing, structuring, negotiating and documenting various transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, mining, oil and gas, manufacturing and technology transfer. He also assists a number of Chinese corporations in their acquisitions and financing in North America.
Bob speaks extensively in conferences in China, North America and elsewhere in the world. He has been a director of Canada-China Business Council in Beijing for the last six years, three of which he was chairman, as well as a member of the China Law Advisory Board of Lexis Nexis, a leading international legal publisher.
Before becoming a lawyer, Bob was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, where he performed various criminal and national security-related functions in Alberta and Ottawa.
