About Pamir

Practical and Effective Legal and Business Solutions in Greater China

Our team of multilingual professionals is able to bridge the gap between different business cultures and support clients in multiple languages, including English, Chinese (Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Shanghai and Suzhou dialects) as well as Japanese and Spanish .

Our clients include multinational and Asia-based companies, international legal, accounting and other professional services firms, investor groups and private equity firms as well as high net worth family groups.

We co-counsel with leading law and accounting firms from Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe on their client matters. We represent leading PRC corporate and family groups in their outbound investment and migration activities overseas.

Pamir is a member of IR Global, the fastest growing professional service firm network in the world; providing legal, accountancy and financial advice to companies and individuals across 150 jurisdictions. In addition, Pamir works with a national network of talented and internationally capable independent PRC counsel.

Why Clients Select Pamir

Focus on Client Growth with Integrated Business/Legal Services

We deliver practical integrated business and legal solutions to support our clients’ growth and business success.

We do this by:

• Identifying, developing, prioritizing and defining clear stakeholder business goals before drafting documents. The client is always in the driver’s seat.
• Teaming pro-actively with clients to find, secure and maximize their opportunities and benefits.
• Selecting, building and co-operating with clients to tailor solutions to meet their particular needs as they evolve over time.

Effective Communications

We strive to be good listeners. We strive to understand your goals so we ask the right questions to create the right solutions.

We do this by:

• Establishing an accurate situational analysis, often visually, with pictures, charts and bullet points
• Identifying all relevant stakeholders’ goals.
• Understanding the relevant business and regulatory imperatives.
• Mapping out the current situation, stakeholders and strategic options to ensure everything is considered.
• Map out the desired outcome visually with ownership and operational diagrams, stakeholder responsibility and task lists, main deal content charts and closing indexes
• Develop a budget, closing index, timeline and deliverables chart.
• Drive implementation. Monitor and evaluate progress.

Home Turf Advantage

Simple childhood lessons are often profoundly wise. When crossing a street far from home, look all ways and hold hands with someone from the neighborhood. With a proven track record and decades of success in Greater China, Pamir offers:

• An intimate familiarity with existing and pending legal and business trends in the region.
• Understanding of the decision-making, approval and implementation processes, and the ability to co-ordinate multiple bureaucracies.
• A long-term perspective on the region’s main trends which is not affected by short-term “stop-go-stop” policy reversals.
• A network of local counsel, feasibility experts and government relations developed over three decades is often critical to the success or failure of a client’s project or entire strategy in Greater China.

Focus on Results

• We are a trusted advisors to senior decision-makers of major multinational corporations, private family groups and private equity and institutional investors.
• Clients characterize us not only as their advisors, but also as their “family doctors”, “partners”, “profit centers”, “bodyguards” and their CXO’s “consiglieri”.
• We are the “Go To” team for the critically important cases, when the client needs to succeed, respond effectively to a crisis, plan/implement a critical strategy to grow the business to the next level, protect the intellectual property “crown jewels”, secure the financing, bridge the gap with the counterpart party, change the law or secure necessary approvals, enter a new market successfully, embark on a new venture or diversify into a new industry/sector.
• Pamir is the General Counsel’s general counsel.
• We build and nurture relationships over decades. We are to law what private banking is to sophisticated personal finance.

Cost Effectiveness

We provide cost-effective solutions by “getting it right” the first time.

We do this by:

• Actively listening to develop an accurate situational assessment considering all perspectives
• Eliminate wasted time by clearly defining business goals and project scope prior to preparing documents.
• Provide a budget based on the business value of the goals achieved, rather than time spent.
• Assemble a “just right fit” team for each task to be performed.