Carolyn Dong – Acritas star lawyer

Through her over 30-year career, Carolyn Dong has rich experience in advising on Chinese clients’ overseas investments and international investors for their investments into China. She provides a full scope of services including advising on transactional and corporate structures as well as operational issues.

Paul Lee – Acritas star lawyer

Paul Lee has a broad background in banking and finance. His focus is complex cross-border financings, acquisition finance, syndicated loans and project finance, receivables financing, cash management arrangements and vendor financing. His work often involves a number of jurisdictions, such as England and Wales, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines.

Early career development

We are proud to develop our trainees’ professional performance and capabilities by creating opportunities tailored to their own skills and profiles. For example, international secondments to challenge your legal knowledge combined with the opportunity to enjoy interesting and enriching experiences.

Development and growth

We provide all our people with clear career paths and opportunities for development. With encouragement from our leaders, and coaching and training, you can grow and reach your full potential. Regardless of your role, you will be given challenges and opportunities in your everyday work – and throughout your career.

Our vision

At DLA Piper we strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients. We believe that great businesses can make a better world. That’s why we work hard to achieve the best results for our clients, wherever they do business, and for our people, wherever they work.

We’ve created a culture where every voice counts and every success is recognised. And in the face of fundamental changes in the legal industry, we’re redefining the structure and approach of the traditional law firm.

Our culture and values

We’ve created a culture that encourages and values individual choice and opportunity, combined with inclusion and teamwork. We give, we share and encourage you to do the same.

Our culture is always open and always honest, strengthened by the four values we live every day: Be Supportive; Be Collaborative; Be Bold; Be Exceptional.

We redefine the possible

At DLA Piper, innovation and challenging the status quo are the vital spark to how we think and what we do. Together, we create exceptional experiences, outcomes and growth for our clients and people.

We make this happen with a culture where you bring your passion and individuality to work every day. We want you to reach your full potential as part of a diverse, global team that thrives on collaboration, and seizing opportunities and commercial edge.