Named “Rising Lawyer of the Year” by China Law & Practice, Amy Liu is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions. Based in the Firm’s Beijing office, she has advised corporate clients and private equity sponsors in connection with a variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, leveraged buyouts, minority and strategic investments and other corporate matters.
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Work Highlights
- Blackstone Capital Partners, KKR Asia, Primavera Capital and Warburg Pincus in various private equity investments in Greater China
- New Frontier Corporation in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of United Family Healthcare
- Ant Group in its Series C equity financing totaling US$14 billion
- China National Chemical Corporation in its acquisition of Syngenta AG for approximately US$43 billion
- Alibaba Group in multiple transactions, including its US$4.63 billion investment in Suning Commerce Group Limited and Suning’s US$2.2 billion investment in Alibaba Group, and its strategic new retail partnership with Starbucks in China
Accolades
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“Rising Star of the Year” at the China Law & Practice Awards 2019
Education
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Harvard Law School, 2014 J.D.
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Grinnell College, 2011 B.A.
Amy Liu is Counsel in the Firm’s Corporate Department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. She has advised corporate clients and private equity funds in connection with a variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, leveraged buyouts, minority and strategic investments and other corporate matters. She was named “Rising Lawyer of the Year” at the 2019 China Law & Practice Awards.
Amy’s recent representative matters include advising:
- Blackstone Capital Partners, KKR Asia, Primavera Capital and Warburg Pincus in various private equity investments in Greater China
- New Frontier Corporation in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of United Family Healthcare
- Ant Group in its Series C equity financing totaling US$14 billion
- China National Chemical Corporation in its acquisition of Syngenta AG for approximately US$43 billion
- Alibaba Group in multiple transactions, including its US$4.63 billion investment in Suning Commerce Group Limited and Suning’s US$2.2 billion investment in Alibaba Group and its strategic new retail partnership with Starbucks in China
Amy received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2014 and her B.A. in Classics, with honors, from Grinnell College in 2011. She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.