Publications

•  “Anti Corruption Risks:  Complying with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” in K. Cutshaw, M. Burke and C. Wagner (eds.), Doing Business in China (4th ed. 2014; 3d ed. 2009;)
  
•  “China” in Anti-Corruption 2007 (London 2007)
  
•  “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Dilemma,” The China Business Review 16 (Nov-Dec 2006)
  
•   Co-author, China Trade Law & Practice (looseleaf, Cameron May, London 2000-05)
  
•   “Chinese Trade and Investment Disputes:  Offshore Options” in I J. Cohen et al. (eds.) Arbitration in China:  A Practical Guide 7-01 (Sweet & Maxwell 2004)
  
•  Co-author, “Mergers and Acquisitions in China:  Finding a Route Through the Maze,” in Mergers and Acquisitions 2003-04 (Global Counsel Handbooks 2004)
  
•  “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Business in China,” 18 China Law & Practice 15 (2004)
  
•  Co-author, “China Invokes the WTO ‘Escape Clause’” Topics in International Law (O’Melveny & Myers 2003)
  
•  Co-author, “Mergers and Acquisitions in China,” in Global Counsel Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook (London 2003)  Co author, “China’s New Anti-Dumping Rules:  Battleground for New Protectionism?” 16 China Law & Practice 79 (2002)
  
•  Co-author, “Defending Dumping Claims:  Exporters to China Beware,” 14 China Law & Practice 1 (2000)
  

Mr. Norton has dealt with China throughout his career.  He began his study of the language and history of China in 1965 and had four years of Chinese language instruction at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University.  While at the State Department, Mr. Norton conducted the initial legal planning for normalization of relations with the People’s Republic of China.  He later negotiated with the Chinese government resolution of a major dispute concerning China’s entitlement to sovereign immunity in U.S. courts and led the U.S. Government team that successfully argued the immunity issues in U.S. courts.  In the late 1990’s Mr. Norton moved to China, practicing law first in Shanghai and then in Beijing. In 2002 he opened the Beijing office of a major U.S. law firm and managed that office for the next three years.  While in China, Mr. Norton handled a broad range of legal matters, both corporate and adversarial.  Mr. Norton represented U.S. clients in several arbitrations before CIETAC; served as the sole arbitrator in three ICC arbitrations in China; advised a Chinese client on related disputes in U.S. courts and arbitrations in Singapore and London; advised a U.S. trustee for a Turks & Caicos company on litigation in China and related litigation and arbitration in the U.K. and Hong Kong; advised foreign clients on a number of mergers and acquisitions in various industries; advised Japanese steel and chemical companies on responses to China’s first anti-dumping investigations; and advised Chinese companies on their responses to U.S. trade remedy investigations.

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