Ms. Zhang is a Partner at Beijing Dacheng Law Offices and Deputy Secretary-General of the firm's Belt and Road Research Center. With more than a decade of practice experience, she focuses on cross-border investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, and complex commercial dispute resolution. Ms. Zhang has extensive experience advising both Chinese enterprises on their outbound investments and Fortune Global 500 companies on their inbound projects in China. She regularly leads high-value, multi-jurisdictional transactions and disputes across a range of industries. Her work spans the full business cycle, from structuring and execution of investments and acquisitions to post-merger integration, compliance and governance, restructuring, and dispute resolution. Drawing on her dual expertise in transactional and contentious matters, Ms. Zhang provides clients with forward-looking, integrated legal solutions that anticipate risk and align with long-term strategic goals.
Ms. Zhang has led and participated in more than one hundred projects spanning North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and key offshore jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Her experience covers a wide range of sectors, including finance, manufacturing, infrastructure, culture and tourism, consumer goods, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), and energy and natural resources. She is deeply familiar with the cultural and systemic differences across legal jurisdictions and the diverse approaches to dispute resolution. With a strong command of international commercial practices, Ms. Zhang excels at coordinating multi-jurisdictional teams and crafting integrated legal strategies that balance local legal requirements with the commercial realities of global transactions and disputes.
Ms. Zhang has provided comprehensive legal services to a diverse range of clients, including government agencies, large state-owned enterprises, private companies, financial institutions, domestic and offshore investment funds, listed companies, and multinational corporations. Her deep understanding of the differing perspectives and negotiation dynamics among various stakeholders enables her to navigate complex, multi-party settings with efficiency and precision, advancing transactions to successful completion or facilitating the effective resolution of disputes.
Ms. Zhang also serves as an expert mediator for foreign-related cases at the People’s Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing, a mediator with the Beijing Mediation Development Promotion Association, and an arbitrator with Tangshan Arbitration Commission / Tangshan International Arbitration Court (TSAC). In recognition of her expertise in cross-border matters, she has been selected into the Beijing Lawyers Association’s Talent Pool for Foreign-Related Legal Practice (Cross-Border Investment, Civil and Commercial Litigation, and Arbitration). She was also recognized as a LegalOne Stellar Accolade 2025 | M&A, in recognition of her outstanding achievements in outbound investment and cross-border M&A.
Ms. Zhang holds dual academic backgrounds in both civil law (China and the European Union) and common law (the United States). She studied at Columbia University in the United States, Sciences Po Strasbourg in France, Beijing Normal University, and China Foreign Affairs University (the only university directly administered by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs). She is fluent in Chinese, English, and French.

Advised a central government ministry of China on the acquisition and operation of overseas assets across more than 20 countries and regions, providing comprehensive legal and compliance support

Provided full-scope legal services to a state-owned bank in multiple domestic and international credit and acquisition financing projects

Provided legal services to a subsidiary of a state-owned real estate development group in connection with asset and equity restructuring and disposition

Served as selected counsel to a state-owned fund, providing legal services in the areas of corporate mergers and acquisitions and investment funds, providing legal services for projects including the Fund's overseas M&A transaction

Provided legal services to a state-owned railway construction group in connection with the investment and construction of a Central Asia railway project, a key project under the Belt and Road Initiative

Advised a state-owed group on its investment and construction of a waste-to-energy power plant project in a Central Asian country

Represented a state-owned group in negotiations with Apple Inc. and IBM Corporation on cooperation projects relating to IT network and data storage services

Provided full legal support to a leading health & pharmaceutical company in its acquisitions of a U.S.-based ginseng company and an Indonesian bird's nest enterprise

Advised a state-owned investment group on its USD 250 million acquisition of an Indonesian rubber processing group (a listed company in Indonesia) and its Singapore affiliate

Advised a leading accounting firm on the establishment of its Southeast Asia regional office

Provided full-scope legal services to a China-based private group in connection with its RMB 300 million acquisition of a Turkish mining company

Provided comprehensive legal services to a global leading non-ferrous metals producer (a Fortune Global 500 company) in connection with a RMB 2 billion M&A transaction

Advised a world-leading general aviation aircraft manufacturer, on the establishment of a joint venture company and R&D center in China

Represented a Singapore-based commodity group in the acquisition of a waste oil processing plant in China

Advised a Hong Kong company in its withdrawal from a domestic joint venture

Represented a Guinean company in its acquisition of a gold mining project in Guinea

Advised a leading fintech group on business compliance, VIE structure dismantling and restructuring, and its Hong Kong IPO, the first internet finance company listed in Hong Kong

Represented a subsidiary of a well known China-based multinational group in the acquisition of a gaming company

Represented a Korean fund and a Hong Kong fund in a series of cross-border investment disputes against a well-known domestic group, with an amount in dispute exceeding RMB 500 million, involving multiple jurisdictions including the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, and Mainland China

Represented a state-owned insurance group in Malaysia on debt collection, investigations, recoveries, and matters involving asset takeover/receivership

Represented the controlling shareholder of a well-known wildlife park in a series of Sino-foreign joint venture disputes with the foreign shareholder

Represented a private China-based private group in a dispute with a central SOE arising from a mining cooperation project in Africa

Represented a leading global commodity trader in a series of disputes arising from sales contracts and applications before courts in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui for recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Successfully secured property preservation during the recognition stage, a pioneering outcome in early cases involving pre-recognition asset preservation for foreign arbitral awards in China

Represented the controlling family of a well-known domestic fund management company in a complex series of family wealth and asset division disputes involving multiple jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, and Mainland China