Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

Mason Cargill's practice focuses on transnational mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. His clients include foreign corporations investing in the U.S. and U.S. corporations investing abroad. Mason also has significant experience with commercial real estate development, including large mixed-use projects in Asia and the U.S.

Mason has been deeply involved with China for more than 20 years. He represented the developer of the Shanghai Centre mixed-use real estate project, which was the first major foreign real estate investment in China. Mason also has represented U.S. corporations in their joint ventures, acquisitions, and greenfield projects in China. More recently, he has represented PRC state enterprises in their transactions with U.S. corporations. From 2003 to 2005, Mason was based in Jones Day's Shanghai Office, where he was responsible for coordinating cross-border investment transactions. Mason has represented Georgia Tech Facilities in revenue bond financings as well as the on-campus construction projects that were funded through such financings.

Mason is a member of the Georgia China Alliance and the Global Commerce Council of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. He is a past chairman of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce and serves of the board of directors of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.

Areas of Practice

• Private Equity
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• M&A
• Hospitality

Representative Cases

• Acquisition
• Acquisition
• Acquisition
• Acquisition of Changzhou City Mingfan Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.
• Acquisition of CMS
• Acquisition of CMS , (2009)
• Acquisition of IMPAC
• Acquisition of Royal Group Technologies
• Acquisition of Shandong Gold Millet Biological Products
• China Central Place
• Chinese Joint Ventures
• Joint venture
• Mixed Use Project
• Private Placement of Senior Notes
• Revenue Bond Financings
• Sale to UPS
• U.S. Acquisitions
• U.S. Acquisitions

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Harvard University

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