Head of Gunderson Dettmer’s China practice, Zhen Liu, and Beijing partner, Richard Chang, have been named to China Business Law Journal’s A-List as China’s 2023-24 Growth Drivers Elite International Lawyers.

Zhen has substantial experience representing startups, emerging growth companies, public companies, as well as venture and institutional investors. Over the years, she navigated many startups from incorporation and early stage financings to growing into Unicorns and Super Unicorns. She counsels leading venture capital firms and startups on a wide range of legal matters ranging from providing strategic and corporate structuring advice to founders and investors at the earliest stages, to managing venture capital and growth financings, to negotiating M&A and other liquidity transactions for late stage growth companies.

Richard focuses his practice on the representation of emerging growth companies, in particular life sciences and technology companies, throughout their corporate lifecycle. He regularly advises public and private companies and investors in a wide range of corporate transactions, including venture capital and growth equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings.

The China Business Law Journal’s annual A-List highlights the top PRC and international lawyers committed to China-related businesses. The lawyers recognized in the A-List comprise lawyers that were selected after extensive research involving more than thousands of nominations by executives and general counsels of Chinese and international companies, law firms, and organizations across the globe.