Tom Shoesmith is an experienced business lawyer with over 30 years of experience in advising executives and corporate directors on using an international strategy to build enterprise value. With expertise in Asia, having lived in Japan and China for more than two decades and having opened and led the Shanghai offices of two international law firms, Tom has handled financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, venture capital and private equity transactions, and greenfield investments in numerous countries. Currently the leader of Pillsbury's China Practice and a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice group, Tom's clients include startups and investors as well as middle-market and Fortune 500 companies. Tom's insights have been distilled in his "Making Sense of China" series, which offers clear, common-sense explanations for companies and investors on how to do business in China.