Not everyone in the US is banging the protectionist drum these days. Cleveland-based law firm Squire Sanders Dempsey didn't just sit back and watch as its Mid-West client base upped sticks to China, it followed them. Now the firm is opening its second China office, in Shanghai.
The ministry of justice awarded Squire Sanders its licence on April 6, almost a year after the firm first applied to open a second office on the Chinese mainland, complementing its other Asian outposts in Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Dan Roules will continue to head the firm's China practice, moving between the two offices ahead of a permanent move to Shanghai, while national...