Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Chinese
• English

Lawyer Overview

Alex Zhang serves as coordinator for the China investments practice at Jones Day. He has extensive experience in cross-border investments and in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital/private equity financing, Asia distressed assets transactions, corporate finance, real estate financing, international joint ventures and licensing, as well as various types of inbound and outbound investments relating to China.

Since 1990, Alex has represented American, European, and Asian multinational corporate clients and private equity/venture capital funds in addition to investment banks. Notable transactions for these clients include direct investments, equity and debt financing, acquisitions, and other corporate and commercial transactions relating to China. Alex also has represented a large number of Chinese state-owned enterprises and other PRC and Asia-based companies in their outbound investments, acquisitions, public offerings and other corporate financing, commercial transactions, and dispute resolutions in Hong Kong, the U.S., and Europe.

Alex is a frequent speaker on legal matters relating to China. He is a recipient of several outstanding professional achievement awards, including recognition by Chambers Asia 2008 as a leader in the private equity field. He is a member of the American Bar Association. Alex is a native of Beijing, and he has also lived and worked in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Private Equity
• Buyouts
• Fund Formation
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer
• Labor & Employment
• Asia Labor & Employment

Representative Cases

• Sinochem Int'l Co., Ltd. v. Malaysia Int'l Shipping Corp., No. 06-102 (S. Ct.)
• Acquisition of Air Intake Module and Air Filtration Business
• Acquisition of Ceramics Division of Johnson Matthey
• Alliance with Deutsche Bank
• Hebi Coal Mine Joint Venture
• Issuance of Notes by Dynamic Energy Holdings Limited
• Issuance of Series A Preferred Stock
• Issuance of Shares by Alchip Technologies Limited
• Private Placement
• Private Placement
• Private Placement
• Project Financing of Block 18

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Collective Bargaining, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Law, Joint Ventures, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Venture Capital, Wage & Hour Laws, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota

Education

• U of Minnesota - Main Campus

Published Works

• Legal Considerations for Managing Restructurings in China, 2009
• Mergers and Acquisitions in China, 2006
• China's New Foreign Exchange Control Rules Offer Improved Regulatory Transparency for Equity Financing Deals, reprinted in International Finance & Treasury, World Trade Executive, January 15, 2006, 2005
• How Chinese corporations should handle M&A, Chinese edition of Newsweek, 2005
• Subsidiaries of Publicly Listed Chinese Companies Going Public Overseas, Counsel to Counsel, 2004
• Subsidiaries of Domestically Listed Chinese Companies Going Public Overseas, 2004
• Investment in the People's Republic of China, 2004

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Shanghai 200040 20004, China

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