Omario Kanji

Omario Kanji is a cross-border attorney who began his legal career in securities law, assisting Chinese companies’ initial public offerings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He has since assisted entrepreneur and SME-clients in their corporate growth, intellectual property management, and global business strategies in the PRC and Europe. Omario resided in Italy for three years and in Beijing and Hong Kong for ten years and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Spanish, French, and Kutchi (a dialect of Gujarati, from the Indian subcontinent), and is conversational in Korean.

Omario earned a BA in Psychology and Italian from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), an MA in International Relations and China Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor. He also received an LLM in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Omario is licensed to practice law in the states of California and New York and the District of Columbia.

In the past, Omario served as Adjunct Associate Professor and Assistant Academic Director of Global Immersions at Temple University’s Fox School of Business in Philadelphia, assisting MBA candidates in understanding the international business environment. Omario has led two-week business study excursions to Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Munich, San Juan P.R., Santiago, São Paulo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Tokyo, and Wuhan. Omario’s MBA students elected him Professor of the Year in 2013 and 2014. Omario has also served as adjunct professor in the Temple University–Tsinghua LL.M. Program in Beijing, China, teaching corporate compliance, torts, and intellectual property law.

Omario also serves as legal and strategy counsel to a family real estate office, managing real estate portfolios in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Toronto and Porto. Omario shows students how theoretical concepts of international law and international business practices collide with practical realities such as culture, history, and developmental economics. Omario delights in demonstrating the immense challenges and rewards of conducting business abroad, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa.

Education

Tsinghua University Law School 
Beijing, China 
LL.M. Chinese Law

The University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, Michigan
J.D.

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Washington, D.C.
M.A. China Studies, Conflict Management

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, California
B.A. Psychology, Italian