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Kevin Zhang
Mr. Zhang is counsel in Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, currently practicing as a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Hong Kong. He focuses on both capital markets and M&A transactions in China and the United States. He has substantial experience in complex capital markets transactions, representing both U.S. and non-U.S. issuers and all the major investment banks in IPOs and high-yield debt offerings. He also advises a broad range of corporate and financial investor clients on strategic mergers, pre-IPO investments, PIPE investments and joint ventures. Mr. Zhang also advises U.S. public companies on SEC reporting and corporate governance matters. |
Work Highlights
CAPITAL MARKETS
- NetEase's $3.1 billion Hong Kong secondary listing
- iQIYI’s $2.25 billion U.S. IPO
- Tigermed’s $1.3 billion Hong Kong IPO
- ING's $1.27 billion U.S. IPO
- Tencent Music's $1.1 billion U.S. IPO
- JOINN Laboratories' $844 million Hong Kong IPO
- Ming Yuan Cloud's $797 million Hong Kong IPO
- DouYu's $775 million U.S. IPO
- Studio City’s $359 million U.S. IPO
- Liepin’s $352.6 million Hong Kong IPO
- Youdao's $220.2 million U.S. IPO and concurrent private placement
- RE/MAX’s $220 million U.S. IPO
- MOL Global’s $169 million U.S. IPO
- Sunlands’ $150 million U.S. IPO
- Boqii's $70 million U.S. IPO
- Mogu's $66.5 million U.S. IPO
- CNFinance's $52 million U.S. IPO
- LIZHI's $45.1 million U.S. IPO
- CNOOC's $3.8 billion SEC-registered notes offering
- iQIYI's $1.2 billion convertible notes offering
- Fosun International's €1 billion high-yield notes offering
- JD.com's $1.0 billion SEC-registered notes offering
- Baidu's SEC-registered sale of $998 million of Ctrip shares
- Tencent Music's $800 million SEC-rgistered notes offering
- KKR Financial's $325 million SEC-registered preferred stock offering
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
- Uber China’s merger with Didi
- Tencent’s strategic investment in connection with Meili’s merger with Mogu
- Murphy USA's spinoff from Murphy Oil and listing on the New York Stock Exchange
- Shanda Group’s strategic investment in Legg Mason
- Tencent’s pre-IPO investment in Mogu
- Temasek’s strategic investment in NIO
- Tencent’s strategic investment in Bilibili
- TE Connectivity’s sale of its circuit protection devices business to Littelfuse
- Hot Topic's leveraged buyout by Sycamore Partners
- Various PRC-related equity investments and divestitures by Tencent, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, Warburg Pincus and other private equity firms
Professional History
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Hong Kong office, since 2014
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New York office, 2012-2014