Bio

Fang Xue is Chief Representative of the Beijing office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department and its Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice groups. Ms. Xue has broad-based corporate and commercial experience. She has represented Chinese and international corporations and private equity funds in cross-border acquisitions, private equity transactions, stock and asset transactions, joint ventures, going private transactions, tender offers and venture capital transactions, including many landmark deals among those. Ms. Xue previously worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP where she spent four years in the New York office and two years in the Hong Kong office, prior to moving to Beijing in 2009. She is fluent in English and a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Xue received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law, where she served as Research Editor of the Law and Contemporary Problems and was a member of the Order of the Coif. She was also the recipient of 2003 Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Organization and Finance. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and is qualified to practice in China. Ms. Xue has been recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” in the 2018, 2019 and 2020 editions of Euromoney’s IFLR1000 financial & corporate legal rankings and listed as a leading lawyer in the 2020 and 2021 editions of Chambers Asia-Pacific for China-based Corporate M&A work. An interviewed client remarked, “she is extremely responsive and always willing to go an extra mile to get things done, anticipating issues early and explaining complex legal matters in plain English while bridging the cultural differences of diverse interested parties in cross-border transactions.” She was also included in the 2021 edition of China Top 15 M&A Lawyers by Asian Legal Business, 2020 edition of The A-List by China Business Law Journal and the first edition of The Best Lawyers in China for her work in “Private Equity and Venture Capital Law (International Firms)” based on peer selection and was named to the shortlist for the “Best in M&A and Private Equity” category of the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Woman in Business Law Awards 2016. Ms. Xue published an article “Recent Trends and Issues in Outbound Acquisitions by Chinese Companies” in December 2016, on Thomson Reuters’ The M&A Lawyer, a monthly newsletter specializing in mergers/acquisitions law, corporate governance and antitrust issues.