Mr. Robert Woll

Advisor, SINOTALKS^®
Private Investor & Legal Advisor to Multiple Tech Start-Ups Including WeStyle Inc.
Former Partner of Major Global Law Firms

Mr. Robert Woll is an international commercial lawyer with experience in both China and the United States, including twenty years in Hong Kong and six years in Beijing.  He is currently a private investor and legal advisor to tech start-ups, including WeStyle Inc., a digital fashion company based in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

During a multi-decade career in private practice, Mr. Woll worked as a partner at major global law firms, including Morrison & Foerster LLP, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, and Mayer Brown LLP.  Mr. Woll focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets, finance, investment funds, and financial institutions.  He has deep experience regarding compliance with a wide range of regulatory requirements in China, particularly in relation to China’s digital economy and technology sector.  In addition to advising a range of public and private corporations based in Asia, he advised multinational corporations and private equity firms on acquisitions, joint ventures, and investments, counselled private equity clients regarding consortium and co-investment arrangements, represented institutional investors investing in Asia, and advised private equity sponsors and managers on joint venture and co-general partner arrangements.

Mr. Woll has held numerous law firm leadership positions, including Hong Kong office managing partner at Morrison & Foerster from 2000 to 2005 and co-partner in charge of the Beijing office at WilmerHale, where he co-founded and became head of the China transactions practice in 2007.  Most recently, he was the leader of the Asia-Pacific investment management practice for Mayer Brown.  Leading legal directories have recognized him over almost two decades for his work in private equity and venture capital, energy/infrastructure, and investment funds (e.g., by Chambers, Legal 500, International Financial Law Review, Asia’s Leading Lawyers, and Who’s Who Legal – Private Funds).

Mr. Woll is currently serving on the Board of Stanford GSB (Graduate School of Business) Hong Kong Chapter Limited, which represents Stanford-affiliated alumni based in the Greater Bay Area of China, and on the Asia Advisory Board of Stanford Law School.  He previously served as President of the Princeton Club of Hong Kong and is a member of the John MacLean Society of Princeton University.  He has counselled dozens of Asian lawyers and students regarding their legal studies in the United States and on their career development.

Mr. Woll graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and from Stanford Law School, where he served as Senior Notes Editor on the Stanford Law Review.  Prior to law school, he was a Princeton-in-Asia Fellow at Tunghai University in Taiwan and taught at the Middlebury Chinese Language School in Vermont.  Mr. Woll is a member of the Bars of New York and California and is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong. He is currently a resident of Hong Kong.