Zhixiang（Kevin）ZHOU
Partner Title：Management Committee Member / Business Partner of Shanghai Office
Tel：+86 21 5598 9888/ 9666
Email：zhouzhixiang@dehenglaw.com
Working Language： Chinese/ English
Mr. Zhou focuses on investment & M&A and dispute resolution. With a prior career in the financial investment industry, he has extensive experience handling matters related to investment and financing, debt collecting, and has managed a wide array of cases involving litigation and arbitration, civil-criminal intersections, M&A, cross-border investments, and tax planning. His multidisciplinary expertise across law, finance, and taxation enables him to provide clients with comprehensive and multi-jurisdictional professional advice.
Representative Matters
- Accomplished, as Head of an investment institution, debt restructuring investment and successful exit for Xiamen project of Tahoe Group (Stock Code: 000732), with detailed work involving fund coordination, judicial disposal, contractor negotiations, and government liaison, etc.
- Provided full-scope legal services for equity investment projects of a renowned semiconductor investment fund in China.
- Provided tax planning services for equity structure adjustments of a securities investment private fund.
- Provided full-scope legal services to a leading special opportunity fund for non-performing asset disposition, including litigation resolution, enforcement facilitation, bankruptcy proceedings coordination, and mass incident resolution, etc.
- Provided legal services for a large Korean company with its lawsuit in China.
- Provided legal services for a Singapore company with its lawsuit in China.
- Represented a well-known Shanghai enterprise in arbitration proceedings regarding partnership interest transfer and repurchase disputes.
- Provided criminal legal services to an individual involved in a well-known corruption case.
- Provided criminal defense legal services for an individual involved in a Shanghai top nightclub case.
- Provided criminal complaint legal services for internal governance of a well-known Shanghai company.
Education Background
- School of Law, Tsinghua University (2008-2011, LL.M.)
- The Hague Academy of International Law (2010, Summer Trainee)
- Sichuan University Law School (2004-2008, LL.B.)
Professional Qualifications
- Bar Admission in P.R. China
- Certified Asset Management Professional by AMA of China
Professional Background
- Worked as Managing Director of an asset management company under a listed company
- Worked as Senior Vice President in the Legal & Compliance Department of an asset management company under a central state-owned enterprise
- Worked as an Attorney in the Financial Department of a law firm
- Worked as Chairman Assistant to Chairman of the Leo KoGuan Foundation US
- Worked as Editor-in-Chief of Tsinghua University Law School's English journal Tsinghua China Law Review during the period of pursuing the LL.M. dgree
Selected Publications
- An Empirical Study on the Capital Reserve Conversion into Share Capital in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Listed Companies
- A Brief Analysis of the Forms of Joint Repurchase Liability among Shareholders in Repurchase-based Valuation Adjustment Mechanisms
- Interpretation of the Measures for the Management of Non-performing Asset Business of Financial Asset Management Companies
