Jiaying Zhang advises a range of clients through all stages of the investment cycle within the energy and infrastructure industry. In particular, she counsels infrastructure funds on a wide range of complex domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and consortium transactions, management equity plans and restructurings. Jiaying was recently named a finalist in the “Rising Stars” category at Law.com International’s 2022 British Legal Awards and a 2022 Top 25 Up-and-coming lawyer most active on UK Listing Authority deals by MergerLinks.
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Work Highlights
- I Squared and TIP Group on the sale of TIP’s Canadian business, TIP Canada, to Transportation Equipment Network (“TEN”, f.k.a. Star Leasing)
- KKR in its potential acquisition of Greenvolt, valuing the company at €1.16 billion, and its investment in €200 million convertible bonds issued by Greenvolt
- Actis in its consortium arrangements for the acquisition of the macro towers portfolio of Telekom Serbija
- TPIH in its sale of a 49% stake in CSP Spain to CMA CGM
- KKR in its $2.2 billion take private of ContourGlobal plc and £2 billion take private of John Laing Group plc
- Stonepeak in its acquisition of a €1 billion stake in Inspired Education Group
Accolades
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Law.com International, "Rising Star" (2022)
Education
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University of Melbourne, 2011 Bachelor of Commerce
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University of Melbourne, 2011 Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
Admissions
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Victoria, Australia 2012
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England and Wales 2021
Jiaying Zhang advises a range of clients through all stages of the investment cycle within the energy and infrastructure industry. In particular, she counsels infrastructure funds on a wide range of complex domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and consortium transactions, management equity plans and restructurings. Jiaying was recently named a finalist in the “Rising Stars” category at Law.com International’s 2022 British Legal Awards and a 2022 Top 25 Up-and-coming lawyer most active on UK Listing Authority deals by MergerLinks.
Jiaying’s recent work highlights include advising:
- I Squared and TIP Group on the sale of TIP’s Canadian business, TIP Canada, to Transportation Equipment Network (“TEN”, f.k.a. Star Leasing)
- KKR in its proposed takeover of Greenvolt, valuing the company at €1.16 billion, and its investment in €200 million convertible bonds issued by Greenvolt
- Actis in its consortium arrangements for the acquisition of the macro towers portfolio of Telekom Srbija
- KKR in its sale of a 30% stake in X-Elio to Brookfield in 2019, and sale of a further 50% stake to Brookfield in 2023
- TPIH in its sale of a 49% stake in CSP Spain to CMA CGM
- KKR in its $2.2 billion take private of ContourGlobal plc
- KKR in its £2 billion take private of John Laing Group plc
- Stonepeak in its acquisition of a €1 billion stake in Inspired Education Group
- KKR in its £4.2 billion acquisition of Viridor Limited from Pennon Group plc
- KKR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Coty Inc.’s professional beauty and retail hair businesses, with an enterprise value of $4.3 billion
- KKR in its sale of LGC to a consortium led by Cinven and Astorg
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Jiaying spent time on secondment at KKR, where she worked on multiple transactions including with their infrastructure fund.