Salvaging a Distressed Infrastructure Project

 The Challenge A Latin American private energy generation company and its financiers were considering litigation against a Taiwanese engineering company in relation to a distressed engineering, procurement and construction project.  Our Approach We...

People Republic of China Insurance Litigation

 The Challenge A Latin American manufacturing company suffered considerable losses after mission-critical machinery purchased in People Republic of China was damaged during transit to their country. After one year of fruitless negotiations, neither the...

Damages in Bilingual Arbitration

 The Challenge An international hospitality group was awarded damages in bilingual arbitration after bad faith breaches of Management Contract by local hotel owner in premium brand hotel in prominent tourist destination.  Our Approach The first call...

High Tech Trade Secrets Litigation: Battle of the Titans

 The Challenge Both plaintiff’s and respondent’s counsel, both semi-conductor giants, placed a “first call” to Pamir to solicit retention as first chair counsel in connection with an eight year “battle of the titans” trade secret litigation spanning the US,...

Holistic, Culturaly-Aware Litigation Support

 The Challenge Multi-jurisdiction US litigation with e-discovery requirements involving China/Taiwan based parties and documents requires US litigation counsel to have the ability to collect, track, manage, translate massive volumes of Chinese language...

International Criminal Antitrust Investigations

 The Challenge A publicly listed Asian company with regional and global operations was named as a defendant in multiple criminal antitrust price-fixing cartel actions in the US, Canada, the European Union, Japan and Korea.  Our Approach We assisted in...

Pre-Merger Notification Requirements in Taiwan

1. Is there a mandatory merger notification regime? Yes. 2. Is there a voluntary merger notification mechanism, and if so, what advantages does it offer? Yes: even if a merger falls below the notification threshold the parties may seek a review of the proposed...

Common Reporting Standard (CRS) FAQ

Table of Contents What is CRS? What is the intended purpose of CRS? What countries will be impacted by CRS? When will CRS be implemented? Whose information will be shared under CRS? What information will be exchanged under CRS? How is information transferred under...

Pamir Joins Investor Immigration Conferences in China

Nicholas V. Chen, Jenna Wu and Juan Carlos Madrigal attended the 13th Edition of the “Industry Elite Convention 2018” at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai and the 2018 International Migration Summit at the Conrad Hotel in Beijing. At both events,...

Pamir Joins Breakbulk China 2018 in Shanghai

Partners Nicholas V. Chen and Jian Zhang joined China Breakbulk 2018, which took place March 27 and 28 in Shanghai. Breakbulk China is the largest conference and exhibition in Asia addressing the needs of traditional breakbulk and project cargo logistics. Nick and...

Minimising Corporate Liability: Advice from Outside Counsel

Jian Zhang was featured in a report titled “Minimising Corporate Liability: Advice from Outside Counsel”, published by IR Global. In the report, IR Global members offer their unique jurisdictional perspective on Director Duties and Liabilities &...

Elias Ek, Co-founder and President, Enspyre

Back in 2002, our new business was not doing well and we were thinking about closing it down. We were lucky to have the Pamir team spend a couple of hours with us going over our strategy and business processes. At the end of the session, we felt we had new energy and...

Jonathan Brody, COO, Speak2Me Ltd

Pamir has worked for our firm twice, both times providing highly personalized and comprehensive service on very short notice. The team are able to call on a broad and diverse network of highly knowledgeable and influential people, and they generous in sharing these...

Andrew Cohn, President, Duncan Bolt Co

[X] is an importer from China with a successful business – he is considering expanding his presence in China and needs some straight advice and input. I told him that you were the most honest and straightest shooter on either side of the...

Richard J. Kulle, President & CEO, gEM Services

We first became acquainted with Pamir in 2000 when they were representing one of our investors in an investment in our company. We quickly noticed the thoroughness and attention to detail they displayed in that transaction and began our business relationship with...

David Gussack, CEO, General Bearing Corporation

I want to thank you for the great, and timely, work that you guys did for us while I was in China the last couple of weeks. The speed and quality of the work we needed done was, indeed, important. The papers written on our questions were well-outlined and to the point...

Dan Squiller, CEO, PowerGenix

No one ever expected that [this engagement] would ever be so difficult. This was a very frustrating, complex, and challenging assignment to say the least. Although the desired result was not what we initially expected, through your hard work, guidance, and...

Janet Jacobs, Stoel Rives LLP

I’m extremely grateful to all of you and appreciative of the hard work that has gone in to responding so quickly to this complex issue. It is wonderful to know that we have such excellent global resources for our...