Charles C. Comey, Managing Partner of the firm’s Shanghai office and a co-chair of the Private Equity Buyout Group, advises clients on a wide variety of securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions as well as other corporate finance, technology, and cleantech related matters. He speaks and reads Mandarin.

Mr. Comey is recommended by the 2007 and 2008 PLC Cross-border Which Lawyer? as a leading lawyer for China-related private equity and venture capital investments.

Mr. Comey received his B.A. degree cum laude from Yale University in 1984, his M.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal. Mr. Comey studied Mandarin intensively at the Stanford University’s Inter-University Program in Taipei in 1987-88. From October 1994 until July 1995, he was seconded by Morrison & Foerster to the legal department of a major Japanese trading company, and thereafter was resident for nine years in Morrison & Foerster’s Tokyo office, where he specialized in cross-border M&A and securities offerings. Prior to practicing in Shanghai and Tokyo, Mr. Comey worked in Silicon Valley at Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto office, when he regularly represented issuers and underwriters in both initial and followon public offerings.

Mr. Comey is admitted to practice in California and is a member of the California and American bar associations.