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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name"> Doing Business with China: What I Learned from a Decade in the Middle Kingdom - Paul Saydak</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2015-05-12T08:00:00" datetime="2015-05-12T08:00:00">Tuesday, May 12, 2015 from 8</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2015-05-12T09:00:00" datetime="2015-05-12T09:00:00">9am</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391992'><span class='fn org p-name'>Portland Development Commission</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">222 NW Fifth Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">United States</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=222%20NW%20Fifth%20Avenue,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097209%20United%20States'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>As Oregon’s largest foreign trading partner, China is critical to our state’s economy. Whether importing, exporting, investing in or courting investment from China, the business practices and cultural gaps can be impediments to those unprepared to work with the Chinese.</p> <p>Information is power, and what you don’t know can cost you time and money in any cross-border deal with a Chinese partner. Learn effective strategies to counter the common mistakes that American companies make when negotiating with the Chinese.. Question/answer period will follow the presentation along with a brief discussion of PDC’s China strategy.</p> <p>Featured speaker: Paul Saydak, Blue Sky Pan-Pacific, Portland, Oregon</p> <p>Coffee and refreshments served</p> <p>About our speaker:</p> <p>Paul Saydak is Managing Partner at Blue Sky Pan-Pacific in Portland. During a decade in China, he managed numerous cross-border transactions, including a Middle Eastern investment bank's pre-IPO acquisition nominated by China Law & Practice as “2009 Private Equity Deal of the Year.”</p> <p>Paul’s experience in China includes serving as Partner & General Counsel at a U.K. private equity firm based in Shanghai and as Senior Attorney at the Beijing office of a global law firm. Paul is a graduate of Rice, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and speaks Mandarin Chinese, Polish and Russian.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-business-with-china-what-i-learned-from-a-decade-in-the-middle-kingdom-tickets-16679858907?aff=es2">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>