Marcia Ellis - The Wire China

Marcia Ellis’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions involving companies and other assets in Asia. In the past three years, she has advised on deals with a total aggregate value of over US$265 billion.

She represented Alibaba Group in the acquisition of a 33% stake of Ant Financial, operator of China’s biggest online payment platform by market share; Softbank in the acquisition of a more than 40% stake in Arm China and in taking back control of Arm China in preparation for the IPO of Arm Holdings; as well as Ascendent Capital Partners in the US$1.66 billion take private of Hollysys Automation, a China-headquartered and US-listed industrial automation company.

Contact: mellis@mofo.com

Cover Story

Remember Tibet?

In recent years, there haven’t been any visible, large-scale demonstrations for Tibetan independence, either inside the country or abroad. This is a big contrast to the waves of self-immolations and solidarity protests of the past — and exactly what Beijing wants. If China’s digital surveillance and censorship efforts have reached their full potential in Tibet, what comes next?

The Big Picture

The Main Takeaways from the House’s China Week
By Eliot Chen and Aaron Mc Nicholas

Lawmakers have passed a string of bills this week designed to counter China — but with some notable omissions.

Q & A

Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China
By Andrew Peaple

The author of Mr. China discusses why improving knowledge of the country is so vital, why China has become so toxic politically and whether he would advise young people to make a career there today.

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Learn about the latest proposed export controls
Discover techniques to identify covered end users
Enhance compliance processes, avoid penalties

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Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China By Andrew Peaple

September 17th: Strategies for Identifying Military End Users

The Wire China Archives

The Main Takeaways from the House’s China Week
By Eliot Chen and Aaron Mc Nicholas

Tim Clissold on the Importance of Knowing China
By Andrew Peaple