Practice areas

Equity and debt capital markets; M&A (including private equity investments); Bank financing

Introduction

Rose Zhu has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, some of which are high-profile, ground-breaking transactions. Leveraging on her 20-plus years of experience with the world’s highest-ranking Wall Street practice, she advises the largest companies and on the most complex deals in the U.S. and China.

Her practice concentrates on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and financings.
(I) Within capital markets, she led debt and equity offerings for a wide range of industries, and on markets including NYSE, Nasdaq and HKSE. Her marquee deals include the multi-billion dollar IPOs of Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Guodian Technology; and large-scale or complicated debt offerings for various companies at Sinochem, HNA and high yield issuers (including MTN programme establishments, greenfield high yield offerings and debt tender offers), acting for issuers or bulge-bracket investment banks.
(II) For mergers and acquisitions, she led outbound and inbound transactions, including stock and asset, private and public, and friendly and hostile, transactions. Her high-profile transactions include transactions for listed companies at COFCO; proposed acquisitions for Sinochem of listed targets with over 20 jurisdictional reaches; Bank of China’s proposed transactions over financial institutions with complex regulatory landscapes; Minmetals’ strategic restructuring with Metallurgical Group; and investments by prominent PE shops. (III) An expert on the Foreign Legal Experts panel of China Banking Regulatory Commission, her bank financing experience includes a variety of secured and syndicated lending transactions, with a focus on leveraged financings. Her notable deals include CITIC Bank’s financing to a Hillhouse-led group, for its taking-private transaction of Belle International; China Development Bank’s financings to borrowers in several belt-and-road countries; CITIC Bank’s financings to HNA Tourism, for its acquisition of Carlson Hotels; GF Investment’s financing to a PE-led consortium, for its acquisition of a biotech company in multiple jurisdictions; Chase’s financings to U.S. companies for their acquisitions; and Citibank’s financings with complex lending arrangements.

Zhu’s major clients include COFCO, Sinochem, China Development Bank, China Construction Bank, Minmetals, HNA, Agricultural Bank of China, CITIC Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China, Bank of China, Sinofert, Jinmao, CNIC, Guodian Group, Three Gorges, Chalco, Shanghai Railway, Chongqing Machinery, Guangshen Railways, PPG, IBM, Lucent, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JPMorgan, UBS and Credit Suisse.

Zhu is a speaker at various professional conferences and was quoted by Caijin, Caixin, IFLR and FinanceAsia. She graduated with honors with a JD degree from Stanford Law School, among others.

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