Charles C. Comey is managing partner of the firm’s Shanghai office and co-chair of the China Private Equity Group, and advises clients on a wide variety of private equity, mergers and acquisitions as well as other corporate finance, joint venture, and Cleantech matters. He speaks and reads Mandarin.

Mr. Comey is recommended as a leading lawyer for China-related private equity and venture capital investments by IFLR 1000 and PLC Cross-border Which Lawyer? for his expertise in private equity in Asia and China. He is also recognized by Chambers Global 2009 as a “Band 1” practitioner in Private Equity: Buyouts and Private Equity: Venture Investments in China.

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. Beginning in 1994, 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 strategic alliance. Prior to practicing in Shanghai and Tokyo, Mr. Comey worked in Silicon Valley at Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto office.

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