Managing Partner at Wei Tu Law Firm*
Zoe is the managing partner of Wei Tu Law Firm*. She specialises in corporate financing legal issues and has over 20 years of experiences in M&A, cross border financing and regulatory advice and data protection. Zoe also advises clients on their complicated employment law issues.
Languages: Mandarin and English
Jurisdiction: PRC
Zoe has been advising Chinese and international client on their cross-border M&A and financing transactions. Zoe has very sophisticated M&A experience in the sectors of healthcare, new technology and energy, and modern manufacturing.
Zoe has provided PRC law assistance for hundreds of cross border assets financing transactions. She and her team have also provided regular PRC law analyses and regulatory advice to financial institutions regarding designing and launching new cross border financing products and legal issues arising from their operation. Zoe's clients include leading banks, financial leasing companies, virtual banks, and other financing institutions.
Zoe has very solid experience in advising clients on data privacy issues in the context of commercial transaction, M&A, and compliance review. Zoe also works a lot on the data privacy issues for financing institutions in terms of general compliance and new financial products, working together with various financial institutions, especially e-commerce platforms and virtual banks.
Relying on her in-depth experience in corporate, financing and data privacy, Zoe and her team are capable of providing comprehensive one-stop legal solutions for complicated cross border transactions involving new technologies and sectors.
Zoe's employment practice covers all kinds of complicated employment issues, e.g. mass layoff under the context of restructuring or M&A, regulatory compliance of senior management renumeration of financial sectors, cross border concurrent employment, etc.
*Wei Tu (a PRC law firm registered in Guangzhou) and Stephenson Harwood (a law firm registered in Hong Kong) are in a CEPA association under the name “Stephenson Harwood - Wei Tu (China) Association”. CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement) is a free trade agreement concluded between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Under CEPA, Hong Kong based law firms are permitted to operate in association with Mainland Chinese law firms to provide comprehensive legal services in Mainland China governed by Chinese and non-Chinese laws.
Acquisition of equity in a state-owned equity
Representing a US airplane appliance producer in the acquisition of further interests in one of its joint ventures with a Chinese state-owned company. The acquisition is completed by public bidding through China Beijing Equity Exchange.
Healthcare
Providing legal services for a US medical service provider in its acquisition of hospitals located in China mainland.
Privatization loan
Advising on the privatization loan and related equity pledges and other securities in relation to the privatization of a Hong Kong listing company.
Cross border transfer of financing assets
Advising on cross border transfer of trade financing assets between overseas bank and Chinese bank.
Regulatory advice for card network
Providing regulatory compliance advice to a leading international card network on its operation in China.
Data transfer of medical service provider
Advising a leading HK medical service provider on data privacy protection on cross border transfer of patient records, management of electronic medical records, standard privacy policy and personal information collection statement.
Data leakage service
Assisting a European consumer product brand in the investigation carried out by Cyberspace Administration of China over personal data leakage.
SCC filing
Assisting a leading shipper in the SCC filing with CAC.
Mass layoff
Providing legal advice to a famous European airline company on the termination of air crew after the cancellation of the route starting from Guangzhou
Renumeration compliance advice
Providing compliance advice to a world leading insurance company on the renumeration package for the senior management of its PRC subsidiaries.
