Connecting with China: Business Success through Mutual Benefit and Respect

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people enabled and inspired the creation of this work and my heartfelt thanks goes out to them. Firstly those who contributed directly to the building of the content: Chloe Lee, IP Partner, Stephenson Harwood & Lo for her depth of insight, profound knowledge and culturally sympathetic approach to law and to Sino-Western commercial relations. Eifion Morris, partner Stephenson Harwood London for encouraging the project and fielding the Stephenson Harwood contribution so brilliantly. My thanks are also due to Phillip Moore at Andor for his powerful, insightful and assiduous contributions and for finding the time in a hectic international schedule to give the project his finest ideas and make it a priority.

 

I am also indebted to David Paice and James Hancock of Cathay Pacific for inviting me to the Cathay Pacific China business awards at the Dorchester, where I had the privilege of meeting and approaching Andor for this book and to Doctor Aislinn Rice of Andor for her sustained interest in and placement of this project. I would further like to thank Robert Bentley of Market Sector Research International Ltd for his professional, thorough and comprehensive contribution to the due diligence and governance chapter and for his sustained interest in the project since inception, which I greatly appreciate.

 

My sincere thanks are also due to the 15 Chinese CEOs who so kindly, generously and with such deference proffered opinions in the hope of promoting increased ...