Katherine’s practice focuses on M&A (including restructuring and divestiture), Investment and Financing, as well as Corporate & Compliance. She possesses solid expertise and extensively practical experience in such transactional practices, including without limitation, conducting due diligence, identifying and assessing legal risk, formulating legal solution, as well as architecting, drafting, negotiating, revising, and finalizing legal documentation.
In M&A practice, she, on the basis of understanding the client’s business essence and core requirements, has excelled at seeking an insight into core risks in projects and putting forward pragmatic solutions or strategies in accordance with legal rules and actual status of projects. This approach has successfully facilitated domestic and foreign clients executing and closing multiple cross-border and domestic M&A transactions with minimized exposure.
In terms of Investment and Financing practice, she, through systematic thinking and prudent risk management, provided numerous prominent provincial state-owned enterprises, central state-owned enterprises, and privately-owned companies with pragmatic and efficient legal services for financing in domestic and overseas capital markets (including initial public offerings (IPO), seasoned equity offerings, rights issues, and restructuring of listed company). In addition, she has also provided legal services related to foreign direct investment for multiple domestic or foreign enterprises.
In the realm of Corporate & Compliance practice, she has provided legal and regulatory supports to a number of multinational corporations for complex/strategic commercial projects or business strategies across their core business lines in China and Southeast Asia, prudently balancing commercial aspiration with risk control. Her key contributions have been recognized by the clients.
Katherine joined BZW (Shanghai) Law Firm (“BZW”) in 2026. Before joining BZW, she had prior experience with both a renowned law firm and several leading multinational corporations. Additionally, she sat on the Group-level Investment Committee and served as a Director or Supervisor of controlled subsidiaries at a leading domestic industrial gas group.
