Overview

Wei Shao is the national practice group co-leader for the China Service at Dentons and specializes in international business transactions focusing on China. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and project financing, cross-border counseling, and general corporate and commercial transactions.

Wei has represented Chinese investors and entrepreneurs, sovereign and investment funds, private and public companies as well as major SOEs in various significant transactions in Canada, especially in natural resource and mining. Wei has also advised Canadian and US companies in natural resources, manufacturing, high-tech, environment, infrastructure and financial transactions in China. He has also provided legal advice to government agencies and diplomatic missions from both Canada and China. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences on matters related to investment in or from China.

Prior to his legal career Wei worked for the United Nations in New York. Wei is an interpreter accredited by the United Nations and by the federal government of Canada. As an interpreter or consultant, Wei has been involved in numerous ministerial and prime ministerial meetings or negotiations between Canada and China.

Wei is a current or past board member of a number of organizations, including the Vancouver Police Board, the Vancouver Aquarium, SUCCESS, and a large public company listed on TSX and HKEX.

U.N. Accreditation of Simultaneous Interpretation, Beijing University of Foreign Studies, 1986

Practice Areas

• Civil Litigation
• Corporate Law
• International Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1995 (BC)