The British Chinese Law Association (“BCLA”) is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a series of debates and lectures looking forward to the next ten years of commercial law in China - the BCLA "China10" series. This series will cover financial, environmental and dispute resolution law. We invite you to the first of these seminars, in association with CMS Cameron McKenna: ******************************************************************************************************************************** CHINESE FINANCIAL LAW IN THE COMING DECADE ******************************************************************************************************************************** A discussion of the current state of, and prospects for, financial law in the People's Republic of China ******************************************************************************************************************************** SPEAKERS: Yongmei Evers Cai, Partner, King & Wood PRC Lawyers, Beijing AND Andrew Halper, Head of China Business Group in the UK, CMS Cameron McKenna, London ******************************************************************************************************************************** CHAIR: Matthew Townsend, British Chinese Law Association ********************************************************************************************************************************* DETAILS: AT: CMS Cameron McKenna, Mitre House, 160 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A ON: Thursday 25 March 2010, 5.30pm for 6.00pm start DRESS: formal PLEASE RSVP TO Paula.Smith@cms-cmck.com by Monday 22 March 2010 ******************************************************************************************************************************** YONGMEI EVERS CAI is a Partner in the Beijing office of King & Wood PRC Lawyers. She specializes in banking, cross-border finance, and real estate finance. She has had more than 15 years of legal practice with major international and Chinese law firms and extensive experience in advising major international and local financial institutions, commercial corporations and equity investors on corporate finance, commodity and trade finance, project finance, acquisition and leverage finance, mergers and acquisitions, syndicated lending, debt and corporate restructurings, compliance, structured finance, derivatives and structured products. ******************************************************************************************************************************** ANDREW HALPER is head of CMS Cameron McKenna's China Business Group in the UK. He is a corporate lawyer qualified to practice law in both England and Canada, he advises Western companies pursuing matters in China across a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, chemicals, food, real estate development, media, health technology, education, financial services, natural resources, franchising and trade. In addition, he advises Chinese enterprises engaged in business outside of China. His Chinese clients have included China National Petroleum Corporation and China Central Television. ******************************************************************************************************************************** We are delighted to announce that this event is supported by the China Britain Business Council (www.cbbc.org), the Association of Chinese Financial Professionals (www.acfpu.org.uk) and Chinese Entrepreneurs Global (http://www.ceglobal.org). We would also like to thank the Law Society's International Division for their support (http://international.lawsociety.org.uk/) . The Law Society are organising a delegation of Chinese law firms to the UK between 22 and 24 March 2010. For more information visit http://international.lawsociety.org.uk/node/7185.

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