David Olsson is a Partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, based in Beijing and heads up the firm's banking and finance practice in China.

With over 25 years experience working in the Australian and international markets, David has a leading reputation as a corporate finance and debt capital markets specialist. David's practice in China focuses on:

• market entry issues faced by Australian and international financial institutions;
• the development and distribution of financial products in the Chinese domestic market;
• the bond and financial derivatives markets in China; and
• the financing of Chinese outbound investment and M&A activities, particularly into the mining, energy and resources sectors in Australia.

David brings significant commercial experience to his practice, having been one of the firm's national Managing Partners and prior to that national practice team leader of the banking and finance team. He also headed up the firm's offices in Melbourne and Hong Kong and worked for several years in London and the Middle East. Chambers Asia 2010 says "the firm has also made substantial strides into China under David Olsson's leadership."

David is recommended in the 2009 edition of the Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers produced by Euromoney's Legal Media Group and was also recognised as one of China's leading capital markets lawyers in The International Who's Who of Capital Markets Lawyers 2009.