Melissa Zhu (Mimi)

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Melissa Zhu has more than 15 years of extensive experience in providing cross-border legal services, including advising foreign clients' transactions relating to China, or Chinese clients' overseas investments and other projects. She regularly handles mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investments, joint ventures, strategic investments, divestitures, restructurings, and other commercial transactions. The clients she represents cover manufacturing, technology, life science, mining and energy, automotive, infrastructure, real estate, transportation, and financial services.

Representative transactions led by Melissa recently include: a top Chinese biotechnology company's sale of U.S. subsidiaries and IP licensing-out, which is recognized as a milestone project in the Chinese life science industry; a leading Chinese new energy vehicle brand's joint venture establishment with a European brand and Middle East investor; a Chinese automotive company's strategic cross-shareholding with a German vehicle manufacturer and the relevant stock transactions; an American manufacturing company's sale of its business in China to a Chinese public company; a Chinese state-owned company's acquisition of African mining projects; the restructuring between a Chinese real estate company and its foreign partner; and a foreign sovereign fund's investment into a billion dollar-valued Chinese unicorn company.

Melissa also has helped clients in handling a considerable number of global disputes. Her recent experience includes assisting a top Chinese insurance company in litigations in the United States. In addition, she often works closely with lawyers from other jurisdictions and practices for advising clients on various types of regulatory and compliance issues, covering foreign investment approval, anticompetition, listing rules, sanctions and export control, anticorruption, data security, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG).

Erfahrung

  • MGI Tech sells Complete Genomics to Swiss RocketsJones Day represented MGI Tech Co., Ltd., a China-based global leader in DNA sequencing, on the sale of its U.S. subsidiary, Complete Genomics Inc., a pioneering life science company that develops and commercializes end-to-end DNA sequencing platforms, including instruments, reagents, and software, for high-throughput human genome sequencing and analysis in research applications, to Swiss Rockets AG, a specialized biotechnology incubator and accelerator based in Basel, Switzerland.
  • Valmet acquires Severn GroupJones Day is advising Valmet Oyj in the $480 million acquisition of Severn Group, a well-established industrial valve company, from Bluewater, a UK-based private equity firm.
  • MGI US and Complete Genomics grant license to Swiss Rockets to develop, manufacture, and commercialize CoolMPS™ sequencing technologyJones Day represented MGI US LLC ("MGI") and Complete Genomics Inc. ("CGI"), U.S. subsidiaries of China-based MGI Tech Co., Ltd., in connection with a license agreement with Swiss Rockets AG ("Swiss Rockets"), a Switzerland-based biotech firm.
  • Orano and XTC New Energy create two JVs dedicated to production of batteries for electric vehiclesJones Day advised Orano in the context of the setting-up of two joint-ventures dedicated to the production of critical materials for batteries for electric vehicles, together with Chinese group XTC New Energy.
  • Joint Administrators of The Body Shop International Limited (in administration) sell business and assetsJones Day advised Geoffrey Rowley, Anthony Wright and Alastair Massey of FRP Advisory in their capacity as joint administrators of The Body Shop International Limited (in administration), an appointee of the shareholder, Aurelius Investment Advisory Limited, in connection with the trading administration and subsequent sale of the company's business and assets.
  • International Automotive Components Group sells Chinese businessJones Day advised International Automotive Components Group, LLC in the sale of its Chinese business to Ningbo Huaxiang Automotive Door Systems Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ningbo Huaxiang Electronic Co., Ltd.
  • WEG acquires industrial electric motors and generators business from Regal Rexnord CorporationJones Day advised WEG S.A. in the $400 million acquisition of the industrial electric motors and generators business of Regal Rexnord Corporation.
  • Geely forms joint venture with Renault Group to launch leading powertrain technology companyJones Day advised Geely Automobile Holdings Limited and Geely Holding Group on the creation of a 50/50 joint venture with Renault Group dedicated to becoming the global leader in developing, manufacturing, and supplying best-in-class hybrid and highly efficient internal combustion engine powertrains.
  • Investment Global divests shares in Daimler TruckJones Day represented Investment Global Co., Limited, a portfolio company of Beijing Auto Group, a backbone enterprise in China's automobile industry, in connection with the sale of approximately 29 million shares in Daimler Truck Holding AG, one of the world’s leading truck manufacturers (FRA:DTG) in a combination of brokerage and derivative transactions.
  • Ahlström Capital BV and Nidoco AB invest in the Decor business of Ahlstrom-MunksjöJones Day advised Ahlström Capital BV and Nidoco AB in the acquisition of the Decor business of Ahlstrom-Munksjö.
  • Avient acquires DSM Protective Materials businessJones Day advised Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), a leading provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions, in the $1.485 billion acquisition and financing of Koninklijke DSM N.V.’s protective materials business, a leading specialty engineered materials business built around the invention of Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber.
  • Findos Investor sells Rhenoflex GmbH to Coats GroupJones Day advised Findos Investor GmbH in the €115 million sale of Rhenoflex GmbH, one of the leading global manufacturers of sustainable structural material solutions for the footwear industry, to Coats Group plc.
  • China Post Group Limited invests $128 million in Ule Holdings LimitedJones Day advised China Post Group Limited with its $128 million investment in Ule Holdings Limited through Telpo Philatelic Company Limited ("Telpo"), a subsidiary of China Post.
  • Sanofi announces carve-out creating EUROAPI and spin-off of approximately 58% of shares to its shareholdersJones Day advised Sanofi in the carve out creating EUROAPI (a leading European company dedicated to the development, production and marketing of active pharmaceutical ingredients) and the listing of this entity on Euronext Paris and the placement of 12% to the French State (through French Tech Souveraineté) for a price of up to €150 million.
  • Armor sells stake in ARMOR-IIMAK to AstorgJones Day advised EN5, controlling shareholders of the Armor group, on the management buyout of Armor Iimak group and the simultaneous 40% investment by Astorg Midcap in the Armor Iimak group.
  • PTTGC acquires allnex from AdventJones Day advised PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited in the €4 billion acquisition of allnex Holding GmbH from Advent International.
  • Cardinal Health sells its Cordis business to Hellman & Friedman for approximately $1 billionJones Day advised Cardinal Health in connection with the divestiture of its Cordis business to Hellman & Friedman for approximately $1 billion.
  • EagleTree Capital sells Airtech Group, US Valve Corporation, and related entities to IDEX Corporation for $470 millionJones Day represented investment funds managed by EagleTree Capital in the sale of Airtech Group, US Valve Corporation, and related entities to IDEX Corporation for $470 million.
  • J.F. Lehman acquires Global Marine GroupJones Day advised long-standing client J.F. Lehman & Company, a leading middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on the aerospace, defense, maritime, government, and environmental sectors, in connection with the acquisition and related financing of Global Marine Group.
  • DFI acquires 20.49% stake in Ace PillarJones Day advised DFI Inc. in its $14.8 million acquisition of a 20.49% stake in mechatronics components maker Ace Pillar Co.
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