INVESTMENT LAWYER OF THE YEAR IN CHINA Shihui Partners
Zan Zhu Partner Tel: +86-134 6667 3832 zhuz@shihuilaw.com www.shihuilaw.com
Ms Zan Zhu of Shihui Partners is specialised in venture capital and private equity transactions, securities offerings and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. She provides legal services to numerous leading companies and has extensive experience in a wide range of industries, including IT and Telecoms, Media and Entertainment, Healthcare and Life Sciences, etc. She has advised a wide range of clients on private financing and IPOs in both domestic and overseas stock exchanges, and has represented clients in various high-profile M&A deals.
formation, foreign direct investment, outbound investment, wealth management, dispute resolution, corporate compliance, antitrust, asset securitisation and data protection.”
Moreover, Ms Zhu has extensive experience within the venture capital and private equity industry, and has represented numerous well-known foreign and domestic VC&PE funds for their fund formations, downstream investments and exits.
Moreover, all of the firm’s partners are seasoned practitioners in their respective fields, equipped with solid professional skills and extensive practice experience. Many of them have become regulars in various professionally reputable awards and rankings. All of Shihui Partners’ lawyers are graduates of prestigious law schools in China, and many have received post-graduate legal educations from the foremost law schools in common law jurisdictions. The firm has a highly selective recruitment process to ensure that it only recruits the most talented and promising candidates in the market.
She has also assisted hundreds of companies in connection with their private placement, M&A and initial public offerings, which has covered a variety of industry sectors, including telecoms, Internet, education, healthcare and life sciences. Among her other distinctions, Ms Zhu has been recommended as a leading lawyer in 2018 and 2019 by the China Business Law Journal, as well as a China Top 15 Rising Partner in 2020 by the LEGALBAND. Ms Zhu commented: “Having successfully emerged from China’s legal market, we are a team of talented, passionate law practitioners, who are committed to stay as strong, yet adaptable, market leaders. We serve our PRC and overseas clients with solid legal expertise and valuable business insights, distinguishing ourselves in the market with a well-built reputation. “We have outstanding track records in a large spectrum of commercial areas – encompassing mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private equity, venture capital, fund
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“We believe in the power of technology,” added Ms Zhu. “We have focused on investment into information technologies and smart systems, in order to upgrade our way of practice. Our technology edge has laid the foundations of our outstanding legal services with steady quality, high efficiency and strong adaptability. We firmly believe that our efforts in digitalising our services will fuel the legal industry in China with fresh and powerful revolutions. “We have served various industry backbones, innovation pioneers, and sophisticated investors who are leading the Chinese market. We have advised our clients on a variety of high-profile transactions, through which we are
privileged to witness their success in growing into the predominant leaders of their respective sectors and the rapid rise of China’s economic force. “In our long history, we have advised a wide range of clients on private financing and IPOs in both domestic and overseas stock exchanges, and have represented clients – both domestic and overseas – in a diverse array of high-profile M&A deals.” Furthermore, in the past 12 months, Shihui Partners has represented JD.com in its secondary listing in Hong Kong Exchange, which was the largest public offering project in HK in 2020. The firm has also represented Genethon Health in its IPO in the US – which is notable as it was the largest initial public offering project in cancer precision treatment industry. These IPO projects have improved the firm’s market position within the capital markets field.
All of the firm’s partners are seasoned practitioners in their respective fields, equipped with solid professional skills and extensive practice experience. Many of them have become regulars in various professionally reputable awards and rankings. All of Shihui Partners’ lawyers are graduates of prestigious law schools in China, and many have received postgraduate legal educations from the foremost law schools in common law jurisdictions.