Mr. Zhang is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and a resident partner in the Beijing office. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including private equity portfolio investments, buyouts, joint ventures and strategic investment transactions. He also advises clients on cross-border securities and general corporate matters.

In his private equity practice, Mr. Zhang has represented Bain Capital, Carlyle, CDH, CCMP Asia, IDG/Accel, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, SAIF Partners, Sequoia, Warburg Pincus and many other private equity firms on numerous transactions. His recent experience includes advising COFCO in connection in its investment in Smithfield Foods; Baring Private Equity Asia in financing a management buyout of Asian American Gas; CCMP Asia in connection with its acquisition of the flue gas desulphurization business from a publicly listed company in China; and Merrill Lynch on several investments in China. He has also worked on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions transactions, including Yahoo’s acquisition of a China-based search engine; Focus Media’s acquisition of Framedia and Allyes Information Technology; and Shanda’s acquisition of a significant stake in Sina. The securities matters handled by Mr. Zhang include the initial public offering and notes offering of Shanda Interactive Entertainment, and the initial public offerings of Acorn International, China Finance Online, China Sunergy and ATA.

Mr. Zhang graduated from Shanghai University of International Studies in 1981 and in 1982 received his post-graduate certificate from the United Nations Training Course at Beijing University of International Studies. In 1993, he received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award and the topics editor of the Boston University International Law Journal. He is admitted only to the bar of Massachusetts. Mr. Zhang is a native speaker of Mandarin.

He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of Boston University Law School.

Before joining Davis Polk, Mr. Zhang was the managing partner of the Beijing office of O’Melveny & Myers.