Yizhe Zhang

Yizhe Zhang is a strategic advisor and international competition lawyer with two decades of experience advising multinational companies on competition, foreign investment, Chinese national security review, and other regulatory matters involving China. She combines first-hand government experience at China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) with extensive private practice in high-stakes transactions, government investigations, and regulatory strategy.

Yizhe represents clients in cross-border transactions including NVIDIA's US$7 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Tokyo Electron's US$29 billion merger with Applied Materials, PotashCorp's US$38 billion all-stock merger of equals with Agrium, UTC's US$18.4 billion acquisition of Goodrich, and Safran's US$9.1 billion acquisition of Zodiac Aerospace. She represents clients in Chinese regulatory conduct investigations across the automotive, semiconductor, health care, consumer products, and other industries.

Yizhe also advises Chinese companies going abroad. She provides compliance counsel, coordinates multijurisdictional merger filings and in-depth reviews, and advises on global privacy and data protection matters. She also works with Jones Day team representing Chinese companies in U.S. antitrust class actions and U.S. Department of Justice investigations.

Before joining Jones Day, Yizhe worked in MOFCOM's Anti-Monopoly Office where she was part of the team drafting the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law and related regulations on foreign mergers and acquisitions.

Yizhe coauthored Anti-Monopoly Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2011) and contributed to the China chapter of "Antitrust Issues" in International Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions (ABA Publishing, 2012).