UK SME Accountancy Firm JV’s Wth Anglo – Sino Law Firm

A partnership agreement has been signed between a Chester (UK) basedaccountancy firm and specialist Anglo-Chinese law firm, Christine Lee & Co , to we’re told ” encourage bi-lateral trade between UK and Chinese small to medium sized firms.”


The partnership has been created between Mitchell Charlesworth accountants? and Christine Lee & Co ? a law firm with offices in London, Birmingham, China and Hong Kong.

The pr tells us that Christine Lee & Co is the chief legal adviser to the Chinese Embassy in London and is only UK Chinese firm authorised by the Chinese Ministry of Justice to practise as a foreign law firm in China.

Launching the partnership, Mitchell Charlesworth partner, Paul Wainwright, and Christine Lee, director of Christine Lee & Co, urged the region?s SMEs to seize the opportunities presented by the partnership.

?We cannot state this strongly enough,? said Ms Lee. ?There is massive interest among SMEs in China to do business with SMEs across Chester, Cheshire and the North West. To put that in context an estimated 250,000 Chinese SMEs actively want to do business in the UK. The type of business they want to do includes joint ventures, research and development and mergers and acquisitions. The stumbling block, however, is that many simply do not know how to do it and how to make contact with UK firms. The same goes for UK SMEs wanting to enter the China market. That is where this partnership comes in. We will act as a bridge between firms in the UK and China sharing contacts and expertise in the key areas of law and finance ? to make deals happen. It is critical to point out that Chinese SMEs see the North West as a hugely attractive investment region because London is seen to be swamped with competition.?