Angel Huang

Angel Huang, who serves as Jones Day's Partner-in-Charge of Mainland China Offices and M&A Chair for Asia, focuses her practice on cross-border M&A transactions, foreign direct investments (FDIs), and strategic investments. She has more than a decade of experience practicing in China. Angel represents clients in a range of sectors, including manufacturing, financial services, technology, biotech and pharmaceuticals, education, chemical/energy, and automotive.

Angel has extensive experience in representing Chinese companies in their investment overseas. She has first-hand experience regarding current hurdles to Chinese investment worldwide and can advise clients based on her valuable local perspective while working with foreign jurisdictions experts to provide seamless transactional advise to clients. In particular, she works closely with Jones Day U.S. regulatory lawyers on the key issues involved with most Chinese outbound investments in the United States, for example, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), U.S. export control, and economic sanctions issues. She has recent experience in representing Chinse companies in responding to BIS (Bureau of Industry and Security) enforcement regarding the Entity List Designation as well as the Unverified List Designation working with U.S. government regulatory experts. In addition to her transactional work, Angel regularly advises clients on cross-border compliance issues arising from their investments in China, such as government investigations and the geopolitical challenges.

Angel is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of North Alabama's Executive MBA program in Suzhou and Changzhou, China, where she teaches courses on M&A and corporate governance.