Cedric Chou is the Chair of the Greater China Practice, and focuses his practice on cross-border and Greater China matters. Mr. Chou represents financial institutions, public and privately held corporations, high net-worth individuals, and high-tech and media companies. He assists clients in a broad range of matters, including corporate and finance, white collar investigation, litigation management and regulatory issues. Mr. Chou represented clients in the first SEC registration of a Taiwanese company and in one of the first insider trading investigations by the SEC on a China-based public company's senior executive. In recent years, he also assisted U.S. and Chinese companies in renewable energy investment.
Mr. Chou's experience working in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei, in addition to California, allows him to bring clients a greater understanding of Pacific Rim legal, business, government affairs and cultural issues. He helped establish the Hong Kong office of a major Wall Street law firm, and successfully assisted in developing its Greater China strategy. In addition, Mr. Chou is a well-known Chinese writer and the author of a critically acclaimed book on the rule of law. When he was based in China, he taught at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and the School of Law at Fudan University.