Deep Dive on China, Session 2: Doing Business In and With China

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The New Reality of Doing Business In and With China

As the world’s largest economic superpowers, the U.S. and China often have very different perspectives when it comes to doing business both at home and abroad. However, the two countries are consistently the other’s largest trading partner and have historically always shared a significant business relationship. This May, the USHCA will partner with the World Affairs Council of St. Louis again to explore the New Reality of Doing Business in and with China.

This event will feature special panelists Liza Mark, who is an Administrative Partner and the Chief Representative for the Shanghai Office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and USHCA board member; Diane Long, Advisor at Xanadu Enterprise Ltd., past chairman and governor of AmCham Shanghai, and USHCA member; as well as Peter B. Walker, author of “Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the US” and former partner at McKinsey and Company. To learn more about Peter’s book and where to buy it, please click here https://peterbwalker.net/book/

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Moderator

Larry Taylor

Larry Taylor Co-founder of The Yield Lab Asia Pacific

Larry Taylor

Larry has 40+ years of experience developing agriculture business in Asian markets. Beginning with smallholder farm-credit at the Malaysian National Ag Bank, he had a 20-year corporate career with big ag living and working in 9 Asian countries. Experiences included product commercialization and strategic business responsibility with 2 Fortune 50 companies. Larry owned and operated a US-Asia  consulting firm specializing in market entry strategies. Larry built businesses in global markets serving government, corporate and non-profit clients. Larry earned a degree in Agricultural Economics and Animal Science from Cornell University. 

Larry Taylor's Bio

Panelist

Governor Bob Holden

Chairman and CEO of USHCA

Bob Holden

Bob Holden served as Missouri’s 53rd Governor, 2001-2005. Prior to being elected Governor, Holden served two terms as Missouri State Treasurer and three terms as a Missouri State Representative.

Bob Holden has been in public service his entire adult life. In addition to holding elective office, Holden worked for State Treasurers James I. Spainhower and Mel Carnahan, United States Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, and Congressman Richard A. Gephardt.

During Governor Holden's term in office, he chaired the Midwest Governors Association; opened Missouri’s first trade office in China; created Missouri’s first Hispanic Outreach Committee; moved Missouri from 41st to 5th in terms of women in leadership positions; appointed over 200 African Americans to prominent leadership roles; established the state's first Youth Cabinet; and built the first LEED certified state office building in Missouri.

Bob Holden is currently the Missouri Co-Chair for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and is an Executive Board member of the Missouri State NAACP Chapter. After leaving office in 2005, Holden founded the Holden Public Policy Forum and was a professor at Webster University for ten years. While at Webster University, he helped bring the first Confucius Institute to Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.

For over 40 years, Bob Holden has been an active participant in the American Legion Missouri Boys and Girls State Program. He led efforts to bring the first delegations of Chinese students to be participants in this historic program. Since that first delegation to Missouri Boys and Girls State, he has lead the efforts to continue these student delegations of Chinese students to Missouri and Missouri students to China with plans to initiate delegations from other states.

Bob Holden believes that long term economic success for the United States and China must be built on mutual respect, clear understandings and honest dialogue. This can be achieved by expanding our cultural ties, creating more educational partnerships, and creating bridges of opportunities for successful business in both countries.

Gov. Holden was recently inducted to the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame. Watch his honoree video here.

Gov. Holden's Bio

Panelist

Liza Mark

Administrative Partner and the Chief Representative for the Shanghai Office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and USHCA board member

Liza Mark

Liza Mark started the Shanghai office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, an international corporate law firm, in 2013 and is the administrative partner of the office. She is a partner in the Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group and regularly works in the firm’s Shanghai and Dallas offices. Liza has been working at U.S. firms in the U.S., Hong Kong and Shanghai for more than 20 years. She is familiar with the legal environments of these three countries and is able to help her clients fulcrum between the different business environments. She has concentrated her practice in private equity investments, securities and cross-border M&A.

She represents investors, issuers, and investment banks/financial intermediaries in financing transactions, including equity and debt public offerings and cross-border private placements in Hong Kong, India and the U.S. Liza is experienced in private placements of debt and equity securities, Asian in-bound equity offerings, Rule 144A offerings, medium term note programs, SPAC acquisitions, PIPEs, and Hong Kong IPOs. She also regularly advises clients regarding private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and U.S. public company securities law reporting and compliance.

Liza has deep experience in the clean technology, energy, transportation and logistics, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact industries. She has worked closely with foreign private issuers in their securities offerings in the United States and the Hong Kong markets.

Liza also serves on the board of advisors of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 1998 and a B.S. in Accounting and Finance, Indiana University Bloomington, 1995, summa cum laude, with honors.

Liza Mark's Bio

Panelist

Peter Walker

Author of "Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the US" and former partner at McKinsey and Company

Peter Walker

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Peter Walker's Bio

Panelist

Diane Long

AdvisorAdvisor Xanadu Enterprise Ltd.

Diane Long

For over three decades, Diane Long has had a ringside seat at what can only be described as an economic revolution. Diane’s unique & diverse skill set was developed in the cauldron of a forever changing landscape as China marched forward with reforms at a scale and a speed never before seen in history. She has experienced China as a teacher, business executive for corporations and start-ups. A social entrepreneur, Diane is founder of several non-profit organizations. Diane is eager to share insights to enable others to achieve their objectives in China.

Diane Long's Bio

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