Baker McKenzie FenXun

Transactional - Private Equity

Partner

Hong Zhang has abundant experience in corporate affairs, especially in the areas of cross-border M&A (including PE and VC) and joint ventures. She focuses on domestic and overseas cross-border M&A and related legal issues including complicated PE and VC investment and financing, the restructuring involved in dismantling or setting up ‘red-chip’ structures, pre-IPO equity financing and employee incentives for various types of corporations, as well as strategic cooperation and joint venture business. She has accumulated extensive experience and unique insight across a wide range of sectors such as TMT, Fintech, healthcare, real estate, financial institutions, High Tech and high-end manufacturing.

Before joining the Firm, Ms. Zhang worked in major Chinese and international lawyer firms. She advised numerous Chinese companies in high-profile overseas M&A, and assisted multiple prominent international PE firms’ significant M&A transactions and equity investments in the Greater China and Asia region. Ms. Zhang is particularly skilful in advising clients on complicated cross-border transactions and providing input of high commercial value. She has also advised large multinational companies on their M&A and restructuring issues in Greater China and Asia, as well as acting as perennial legal counsel for several large Chinese state-owned enterprises (including government control investment companies).

Awards and rankings

Next Generation Partner in Corporate/M&A - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2023–2024 Next Generation Partner in Private Equity - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2020 Next Generation Lawyer in both China Corporate and M&A and Private Equity/Venture Capital practices - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2018-2019 China Top 15 Female Lawyers - Asian Legal Business (ALB), 2023 The A-List Elite 2023-24: Growth Drivers - China Business Law Journal, 2023–2024

English; Mandarin

Columbia Law School, (LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) (2009) East China University of Politics and Law (LL.B.) (2004)