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Brian Schwarzwalder
Partner
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Brian focuses on cross-border leveraged buyouts, mergers & acquisitions and growth equity investments, with a focus on transactions involving Chinese businesses. Brian regularly works with private equity sponsors such as Bain Capital and TPG Capital on transactions involving a broad range of industries including life sciences, technology, media, publishing, real estate and manufacturing. Brian has practiced in Hong Kong since 2004 and spent time in the Hong Kong offices of two major international law firms before joining Ropes & Gray in 2008. Prior to his time in Hong Kong, Brian was China Program Manager of the Rural Development Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization focused on property rights reform in developing and transitional economy countries. He is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin.
- Represented Bain Capital in its US$1.25 billion acquisition of MYOB, Australia’s largest business software developer. This transaction has been the third-largest private equity divestment ever in Australia.
- Represented TPG in its investments in ShangPharma, a Chinese pharmaceutical contract research organization currently listed on the NYSE, NT Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical marketing and distribution services provider, and China Vogue Casualwear, a Chinese manufacturer and distributor of casual sportswear products.
- Represented Bain Capital in connection with the US$489 million sale of Feixiang Chemicals, one of China's leading makers of amines and surfactants, to Rhodia.
- Represented Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies in multiple investments in PRC-based media companies.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers Asia: Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009-2011)
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Education
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JD, University of Washington School of Law, 1997; Articles Editor, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal
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The Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, 1995
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BA (Asian Studies), Williams College, 1992
Bar Admissions
- Hong Kong, Solicitor, 2011
- Washington, 1997
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