Immigrant of the Day: Howard Chao (Taiwan)
Today’s Immigrant of the Day, like yesterday’s is a lawyer who was named to the National Law Journal 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. Born in Taiwan, Howard Chao is the partner in charge of the Asia practice of the Los Angeles-based law firm of O’Melveny & Myers. In 26 years with the firm, Chao has built the group’s Asia group team from its inception in the mid-1990s with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, adding an office in Beijing in 2003. Chao, also a member of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group, is a highly regarded figure in financial markets and mergers and acquisitions.
KJ