Ms. Zou is a partner based in the Shanghai office. Ms. Zou’s practice focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital, and general corporate matters.

Ms. Zou joined Haiwen in 2021. Before joining Haiwen, Ms. Zou practiced more than 9 years with Fangda Partners.

Merger & Acquisition

■  Represented institutional clients in complex equity or asset acquisitions, including New Frontier on its acquisition of a leading oncology centres in Hong Kong, CITIC on its acquisition of the controlling stake of Terminix China business, one institutional client on its asset acquisitions of several popular video games and related assets, Chi Forest on its acquisition of a well-known tea-based drink brand, Danaher on its acquisition of 100% equity interests in Pall-Austar Lifesciences, Bayer on its acquisition of Dianhong Group, Unilever on its acquisition of Qinyuan.

■  Advised institutional clients on corporate and business sales, including Education First (EF) on its sale to Permira the majority equity interests in English training business across several countries, Coty on its sale to KKR 60% interest in the professional beauty business and retail hair business at an enterprise value of USD4.3 billion, Li & Fung Group on its sale to Suning Group OK convenience stores and brand.

Private Equity and Venture Capital

■ Represented private equity, venture capital and other institutional clients, such as CITIC Capital, CICC, Alibaba, Ant Group, Lilly Asia Ventures, PAG, TPG, Softbank Asia, Being Capital, Morgan Stanley, Swire, Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, Sequoia, Hillhouse, Primavera, Goldman Sachs, Boyu Capital, Brookfield, American Express and YF Capital in a wide range of their investment transactions, including offshore-structured and onshore-structured investments, strategic and financial investments.

■  Assisted unicorn companies in equity financing transactions.

■  Ms. Zou has assisted in private equity and venture capital transactions that involve Nio, Unity, Moonshot, Minimax, Range Technology, Galaxea AI, To Summer, Gentle Monster, SMG Pictures, CGV Cinema, LOHO, Dazzel, thyssenkrupp, Qingke, Wasu Media, 91 Wireless, ZTO, STO, YTO, JD Express, Best Logistics, Ane Logistics, Deppon Logistics, Air China Cargo, Mobike, MediTrust Health, 51 Credit Card, Dada, PPLive and Xiami, etc.

Joint Venture and General Corporate

■  Advised on a wide range of joint venture and strategic collaboration transactions, including joint venture transaction between Nio and JAC, joint venture transaction between Enmore and UK listed company TP ICAP, Vopak’s joint venture transactions, Starbucks’ strategic collaborations with several leading groups, etc.

■  Advised on general corporate matters for institutional clients, including BMW, Jiangling Motors, Nio, Starbucks, Swire, Huntsman, Coty, Adidas, Kering, Bayer, Unilever, GE, etc.

Ms. Zou received her LL.B. degree from Fudan Law School in 2012, and her LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School in 2017. Ms. Zou is licensed to practice law in both China and the State of New York.

Mandarin, English, Cantonese