Weiting Zhu
Registered Foreign Lawyer
Weiting Zhu is a triple-qualified (England & Wales, New York, and PRC) corporate associate in the firm's Hong Kong office. Her practice focuses on cross-border transactions.
Registered Foreign Lawyer
Weiting Zhu is a triple-qualified (England & Wales, New York, and PRC) corporate associate in the firm's Hong Kong office. Her practice focuses on cross-border transactions.
Languages - English, Chinese
Jurisdictions - England & Wales, New York, and P.R.C. (*Qualified in the P.R.C. but does not hold a current P.R.C. practicing certificate.)
Weiting has experience in cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, foreign direct investments, capital markets, and general corporate governance matters in a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, life sciences/healthcare, consumer goods, manufacturing, and energy & infrastructure. She also advises multinational corporate clients in connection with dispute resolutions and white-collar crime investigations.
Prior to joining Stephenson Harwood, she works at a prestigious US firm's New York office, and another market-leading US firm in Shanghai.
Weiting obtained her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Columbia Law School, where she was awarded the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She also holds a LL.M. degree from King’s College London.
LinQuest Corporation - Public and private M&A
Advised LinQuest Corporation, a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners, on its acquisition of 100% equity interests in Capability Analysis & Measurement Organization LLC, a research, development, test, and evaluation programs provider for U.S. Defense Department customers
AgroFresh Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: AGFS) - Public and private M&A
Assisted AgroFresh Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: AGFS), a Philadelphia-based provider of technologies and services to extend the shelf life of fresh produce, in connection with its go-private buyout deal with investment funds affiliated with Paine Schwartz Partners
KIRKBI AG - Public and private M&A
Advised KIRKBI AG, the family holding and investment company behind the LEGO Group, on the $100 million Series D financing to Kerecis Limited, an Icelandic company pioneering the use of fish skin in cellular therapy and tissue regeneration
Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) - Public and private M&A
Assisted Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) in connection with ironSource (NYSE: IS) merging into a wholly owned subsidiary of Unity via an approximately $4.4 billion all-stock deal
Antarctica Capital - Private Equity
Advised Antarctica Capital, an international private equity firm, on its acquisition of controlling interest in Descartes Labs, a solutions provider of automated geospatial intelligence
Tinicum Capital Partners - Private Equity
Advised Tinicum Capital Partners and its portfolio company TSL Engineered Products on the sale of Advantek, a leading provider of highly engineered carrier tape and associated protective packaging products, to Cornell Capital
Dignity Health - Corporate
Advised Dignity Health, a California-based not-for-profit public-benefit corporation that operates hospitals and ancillary care facilities, in its cooperation with a medical service subsidiary of Ping An Group in connection with telemedicine/second opinion service provision to hospitals and clients in China
SunPower Corporation - Corporate
Advised SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR), a leading distributed generation storage and energy services provider in North America, in a sponsored spin-off of its solar panel production operations into Maxeon Solar Technologies
Sterling Fund - Corporate
Advised Sterling Fund on its first establishment of a joint venture university in China
