David K.Y. Tang
David K.Y. Tang is a Partner with Preston Gates & Ellis
LLP and former managing partner. He is based in the Seattle
and Hong Kong offices, where he practices in the areas of real
estate and secured financing law, international business transactions
and foreign investment matters.
Among professional activities, he is deputy chairman of the
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Chair of the Greater
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, American College
of Real Estate Lawyers, Anglo-American Real Property Institute,
the Board of Visitors of Columbia University School of Law,
and has been on the adjunct faculty of the University of Washington
Law School. He is on the boards of the National Committee on
US-China Relations, Pacific Council on International Policy,
and National Bureau of Asian Research. In addition, Mr. Tang
is active in the American Bar Association, where he is currently
a member of the House of Delegates (Nomination Committee);
a member of the Asian Law Initiative; Chair of the SOC Multijurisdictional
Practice Committee; immediate past Chair of the Real Property,
Probate and Trust Law Section; a director of the American Bar
Foundation; and has served on the Council of the Section on
International Law and Practice. He is listed in the International
Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and the Euromoney Guide
to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers.
His recent publications include "Real Estate Lawyers
in Cyberspace: E-Signatures”; “American and International
Proposals for Facilitating Electronic Commerce"; “Special
Concerns of Foreign Investors in Sophisticated Real Estate
Transactions”; “International Intellectual Property
Rights”; “Foreign Investments as Joint Venture
Partners”; “Economic and Trade Organizations in
China”; and “International Joint Ventures”.
Mr. Tang graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. magna
cum laude, attended the Hague Academy of International Law
and received his J.D. degree from Columbia University.
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