Sophia Zhang

Sophia Zhang advises banks and borrowers on a wide range of financings, especially real estate finance and acquisition finance. She is also experienced in foreign direct investment, merger and acquisition and other general corporate matters.

• Advised China Development Bank, Hong Kong branch, on a term loan facility made available to Shandong Gold Mining (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd..
• Advised Noble Group Holdings Limited on the restructure of a multi-million debt owing from two PRC private-owned coal trading companies to its PRC subsidiary Noble Resources (Shanghai) Co., Ltd..
• Advised Blackstone Group on its financing of the acquisitions of PRC commercial real estate and logistics projects.
• Advised the logistic company, GLP, on its acquisition of various logistics properties.
• Advised a consortium of private equity investors on raising RMB 4.5 billion for an entity by investing in it, and on the entity’s subsequent acquisition of an overseas subsidiary of a well-known Chinese education enterprise.
• Advised OCBC on its investment in a K12 online education enterprise.
• Advised the Swedish listed company Mycronic on its acquisition of Axxon.
• Advised a berry company Driscoll’s on its investment and establishment of a planting base and administration and sales head office in China.
• Advised a famous food enterprise Shinho on its business operations in China.
• Advised a fabric transaction website Lianshang.com on its establishment of a business structure on an E-commerce platform.

• University of Sydney, Juris Doctor
• Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, LLB

• NSW, Australia

• Chinese
• English