Howard Zhang, O'Melveny&Mysersllp, Managing Partner Close Window

Howard Zhang is the managing partner in O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Beijing office. Howard's practice focuses on the public offerings and private placements of securities, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and foreign direct investment transactions.
Illustrative Professional Activities
Represents leading international venture capital firms, strategic investors, and issuers in a variety of financing and cross-border transactions
Has advised leading Internet, e-commerce, and technology companies in connection with the private placements and public offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other types of transactions
Has represented underwriters in public offerings of securities, including American Depositary Receipts of foreign issuers
Has represented investment managers with respect to the formation of investment funds, organizing limited partnerships, and limited liability companies
Illustrative Recent Representations
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited in its US$150 million Nasdaq listing of ADRs
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited in its US$270 million follow-on offering of convertible notes
China Finance Online in its US$80.6 million Nasdaq listing of ADRs
3721 Network¡¯s US$120 million sale to Yahoo
Shanghai Framedia Advertising Development Ltd. (the largest community advertising network in China)¡¯s acquisition by Focus Media Holding Limited for US$183 million.
Kasen International Holdings¡¯ HKSE Main Board listing
Warburg Pincus¡¯ investment in China Yintai
Education
Shanghai International Studies University, B.A.
Boston University, J.D.
Professional Activities
Admitted: Massachusetts
Honors: Topics Editor, Boston University International Law Journal; Recipient of American Jurisprudence Award; Named Asia¡¯s Hot 100, and China's Hot 30 by Asian Legal Business; Named ¡°Leading Lawyer in Corporate Finance¡± and ¡°Leading Lawyer in Capital markets, M&A, Private Equity & Venture Capital¡± by Asian Legal Business; Listed in the ¡°World¡¯s Leading Private Equity Lawyer Directory¡±
Languages: English and Mandarin Chinese