GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - China
Zhixiang Liang of Baidu Inc.
Victor Liang is Vice President and General Counsel at Chinese multinational technology company Baidu. Before joining Baidu in 2005, he worked at the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. He has also previously worked with Jun He Law Offices and as a visiting attorney at the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. As the long-standing head of legal functions at the company, Victor played a crucial role in the company’s successful IPO in 2005 and has helped to support the company’s extraordinary growth during the subsequent years.
Recently he has overseen several highly significant transactions, including the company’s USD1.9 billion divestment of its financial services business to a consortium led by TPG and The Carlyle Group. He is praised by sources for his strong leadership on this transaction, one interviewee explaining that “Victor and his team deserve significant credit for their excellent work on that transaction; they ran that process very well.”