WSGR hires PE-focused partner in Shanghai

Chen, who will divide her time between WSGR's Shanghai and Hong Kong offices, joins from Davis Polk, where she spent 10 years in New York and Hong Kong. She has extensive experience with private equity investments, M&A, private company acquisitions, going-private transactions, PIPE deals and foreign direct investment in China.

Past clients have included private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, as well as corporates from the internet, healthcare, semiconductor, financial services, energy, and cleantech sectors.

"Zhan has impressive experience in private equity, going-private, and cross-border M&A transactions and enjoys a solid reputation in the Chinese business and legal community," said Weiheng Chen, head of WSGR's China practice. "Her addition illustrates our continuous efforts to build transactional capabilities to serve our enterprise and private equity client base in China, which is a key growth focus of the firm. We all look forward to working closely with her."

WSGRis headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices across the US and in Europe. Its Asia operations are run out of Hong Kong and Shanghai.

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