Zen Zhang is a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Group. Mr. Zhang has a broad-based practice focused on representing domestic and international corporations in various complex technology transactions, including outsourcing transactions, technology mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, and strategic alliances. Mr. Zhang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Mr. Zhang started his legal career in New York as an associate in the Technology, Communications & Outsourcing Group of a top global law firm. He has negotiated outsourcing agreements, mergers and acquisitions and other complex technology transactions for several Fortune 100 clients across a wide variety of industries. Acting as attorney, interpreter and translator, he also represented Chinese clients in various technology and corporate-related transactions and negotiations in the U.S.
During law school, Mr. Zhang was a director and the chief risk officer of Summa cum Laude Tutors Corp., a non-profit start-up based in New York City. He was a co-author and the chief editor of the start-up’s business plan, which received third place at the 2007 Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial Challenge.
Mr. Zhang received his J.D. in 2009 from Columbia Law School, where he was the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Golub Scholar and the technical editor of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. He received his B.Sc. in computer science (software engineering option) in 2005 from the University of British Columbia.