Bio

Niping Wu concentrates her practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions with an emphasis on private equity and strategic investments in Chinese companies and businesses, regularly acting as counsel to international investors active in China. She also has extensive experience in cross-border debt financing transactions. Additionally, Niping advises Chinese companies on outbound investments, and has also worked on U.S. public offerings by China-based issuers. Niping is recognized by Chambers Asia as a leading private equity lawyer and by Expert Guides as a leading practitioner in private equity. She has been practicing law in China for nearly two decades. Prior to joining Fenwick, Niping was a partner at other prominent U.S. law firms, where she led transactional matters with an emphasis on serving international private equity firms investing in China. Niping has advised numerous private equity funds such as PAG, TPG, Orchid Asia, MBK Partners, Mount Kellett, Hony Capital and American Securities; financial institutions such as Bank of America, Barclays and China Life; and corporation clients such as Giant Network Group, Gridsum Holding, Baozun, Zongyi Group, ArcelorMittal, Precision Castparts and Funtalk.