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Moulis Legal appoints new partner and head of China Business Desk
Moulis Legal has a new partner in the firm and head of the China Business Desk, effective 1 July 2020.
Tony Zhang
Charles Zhan will join Moulis Legal’s founder, Daniel Moulis, and partner director, Shaun Creighton, working on international regulatory and commercial law matters, with a focus on trade defence and cross-border transactions.
“With Charles as our newest partner and head of our China Business Desk, we are well positioned to assist our clients to cope with and to profit from the dynamic changes now taking place in world business affairs,” Mr Moulis said.
“Publicly, Charles’ legal skills are admired, and our clients regularly have good reason to celebrate his outstanding problem-solving skills.
“What is less well known, and what we as a team are privileged to enjoy each and every day, are his human qualities, as a dedicated father, a mentor to our young lawyers and a sage tactician.”
Mr Zhan joined Moulis Legal in 2011 as an Australian and Chinese dual-qualified graduate lawyer. As well as his promotion to partnership, he will now lead the firm’s China Business Desk, which focuses the firm’s energies in the service of clients involved in Australia-China trade, investment and disputation.
The China Business Desk unifies the firm’s deep understanding of the complex commercial, cultural and policy interplay that impacts on business between these major trading partners.
The firms said the move will exemplify Moulis Legal’s credibility in working with both Chinese and Australian clients in two-way business links between the countries.
Mr Zhan also takes an active role in Australia’s key China trade NGO, as vice-president of the ACT Division of the Australia-China Business Council.
“Moulis Legal and our lawyers have an exceptional reputation, locally and internationally, for being trusted advisers in complex trade, investment and commercial matters. Our clients span the business world, and we are also uniquely positioned in our China business expertise,” Mr Zhan said.
“Having spent most of my career at Moulis Legal and with our world-recognised international trade law team, I’m very proud to become a partner of the firm I love.”
