Susan Munro

Partner

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• Beijing Office

Susan Munro is a Partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and a member of the International Department based in the firm’s Beijing office.

Ms. Munro has more than twelve years experience advising financial institutions, multinational companies and investment funds on China-related business and investment matters. She regularly assists clients with China market entry and exit strategies, mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments. Ms. Munro has extensive experience of working with foreign financial institutions in China, including foreign insurers and reinsurers, and with multinational companies operating in the chemicals, energy, semiconductor and software industries. She has particular expertise in Chinese employment issues and extensive experience of advising on protection of intellectual property in China.

In addition, Ms. Munro has conducted numerous China-related Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and earnings management investigations, and regularly assists clients with development and implementation of compliance policies tailored for China.

Ms. Munro has been active in Hong Kong and China related arbitrations for several years and has represented clients in disputes before various international arbitration commissions. She also regularly advises clients involved in cross-border litigation involving Hong Kong, China, the UK and other jurisdictions.

Ms. Munro was educated in England and Hong Kong.  After graduating in Chinese, she pursued post-graduate studies at Fudan University in Shanghai as a British Council Scholar and is fluent in Putonghua. She trained at the Inns of Court School of Law, London, and was called to the Bar of England & Wales and to the Bar of the Hong Kong SAR, where she practiced as a barrister in the Hong Kong courts.  Before joining Steptoe, Ms. Munro worked for a large US law firm in Shanghai for ten years. She is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and is licensed by the PRC Ministry of Justice as a Registered Foreign Lawyer. 

Select News & Events

• Third Party Risk: Performing the correct due diligence to survive a legal challenge when screening third parties in China, Anti-Corruption China Summit, Beijing, November 16, 2011
• Washington Briefing - Human Resources in China, US-China Business Council, Washington, DC, October 13, 2011
• Duelling With Dragons - Managing Business Disputes in Today's China at International Arbitration Conference, New York, September 20, 2011
• "Wages, the Wealth Gap and Global Manufacturing," Bloomberg China Conference, London, May 25, 2011
• Generations in Arbitration Conference, Advocacy, Efficiency and Collegiality: Stepping Stones for the Future of International Arbitration, Hong Kong, April 4, 2011
• "Arbitration in Mainland China" Presentation to Hong Kong Bar Association, Hong Kong, March 12, 2011

Selected Publications

• Reinsurance Update
  August 2011
• Recent PRC Regulatory Developments in RMB Cross-Border Investments
  July 18, 2011
• Labor & Employment Developments
  July 8, 2011
• New SAFE Circular 19: Encouraging Round-Trip Investments and Consolidating Regulation of In-bound and Out-bound Investments
  June 29, 2011
• Reinsurance Update
  June 9, 2011
• Reinsurance Update
  April 18, 2011
• FCPA Year in Review 2010
  March 15, 2011
• Reinsurance Update
  March 2011

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Professional Affiliations

• Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Arbitrator, Shanghai Arbitration Commission