Zhiying (Olivia) Zhan’s practice focuses on corporate and finance matters including a variety of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, commercial, real estate, employment and tax matters. Her practice includes advising on transactions structure, conducting due diligence, and preparing and drafting transactional documents for various projects in the high-technology, real estate, energy and natural resources, manufacturing, aviation and securities industries. She also has substantial experience providing ongoing advice on general corporate and compliance control issues for foreign invested companies in the People’s Republic of China.

With three years’ work experience with the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, she has significant background knowledge of the development of high-tech industry and familiarity with procedures for administrative approvals. She also gained experience interacting with government authorities and negotiating complicated and sensitive issues were developed in this phase. Olivia also worked in the banking and investment department for a leading local law firm in Beijing for three years, where she represented a number of domestic companies in banking and financing, mergers and acquisitions, bonds issuance and initial public offerings in China-based and international stock exchange projects.

Representative Experience

• Representing a US-based real estate investor and developer on acquiring a commercial real estate project in Beijing, China and advising on issues of strategy, land use rights, financing and foreign exchange.
• Advising a publicly traded US-based mining equipment and engines manufacturer on establishing a research center in an industrial park in China including questions of land use rights and recognition as a high-tech enterprise.
• Advising a US-based manufacturer on equity acquisition of a China-based company from its Korea-based shareholder.
• Advising a US-based Internet technology company on the liquidation and dissolution of its wholly owned subsidiary in Shenzhen, China.
• Advising on a natural gas supplier’s pre-IPO financing and preparing for an IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange.