Career
Mr. Zhu is an experienced lawyer who specializes in advising Chinese and multinational corporations on their business investments, transactions, and compliance matters, including corporate compliance, private equity investment, foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. His clients cover a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, foods, automobiles, logistics, TMT, retail, and international trade. Mr. Zhu has been consistently recognized as a highly recommended practitioner in life sciences, healthcare, and corporate compliance by leading global legal ranking organizations such as Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
Mr. Zhu has particular expertise in advising healthcare and life science companies in their various stages of development, including financing and license-in deals for start-up companies, mergers and acquisitions, and various regulatory and compliance matters, such as anti-corruption and anti-bribery, clinical trials, drug and medical device registration, distribution, advertising and promotion.
Mr. Zhu is also well-versed in data compliance matters, having served Chinese and multinational corporations in dozens of data compliance projects, including data compliance analysis, formulating corporate internal data protection and compliance programs, data legal due diligence, handling data incident crises, and drafting data agreements and standard data protection clauses. His work in this area has included industries such as banking, technology, travel, retail, hospitality, medical services, pharmaceuticals, genetics testing, personal credit evaluation, AI driving, Internet mapping, fund management, online payments, and precision marketing, etc.
Publications
The Healthcare Law Review – China, 1st to 8th editions (2017 - 2024)
Chambers Life Sciences: China Trends & Developments (2022 - 2025)
The Legal 500: Life Sciences Guide 2024
Awards
Leading Lawyer in Healthcare
Chambers Greater China Region, 2022-2025
Leading Lawyer in Healthcare
Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2019-2021
Leading Partner in Data protection
Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021-2026
Leading Partner in Life Science & Healthcare
Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2026
Top 15 Cybersecurity & Data Protection Lawyers
ALB
2025
China Top 15 Lawyers - Healthcare
LEGALBAND
2025
Recommended Lawyer in Regulatory/compliance
the Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2019-2020
2019 list of foreign-related legal case experts
The Shanghai Law Society
2019