Leadership & Board

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  President, Member of the Board 

• Clay Zhu has been practicing law in the United States for 25 years since 2000. He has been licensed in California, Oregon, the U.S. District Court of California, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of the United States and other places. He is currently the chief partner and attorney of DeHeng Law Firm's Silicon Valley office. Clay has been working at large US law firms in Silicon Valley and San Francisco for a long time, focusing on cross-border investment and mergers, compliance of US companies and other fields. He has also served as senior legal counsel for international institutions such as the World Bank. He has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, China Economic Review and other well-known medias, and delivered keynote speeches at Columbia University, New York University, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations and other well-known institutions. Clay has long focused on high-tech investment, acquisition and compliance issues of Chinese companies in the United States. He has assisted Chinese companies and funds to complete more than $9 billion investments in the fields of chips, unmanned vehicles, new energy, artificial intelligence, industrial automation, and biopharmaceuticals in the United States. Clay has accumulated rich experience in export control, overseas investment review, intellectual property transaction and other fields. On behalf of Chinese enterprises, he has negotiated with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Treasury and other organizations for many times and achieved compliance plans, which greatly reduced the compliance risks for Chinese clients in the United States. Clay has also served as the appointed attorney for many private organizations and think tanks in the field of cross-border mergers and acquisitions and high-tech, including the California U.S. China Trade Promotion Council, the Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association, and the Sino-US High-Tech Annual Investment Summit. 
• 朱可亮律师2000年开始在美国执业，至今已经在美国执业二十五年，拥有加州、俄勒冈州、加州联邦地区法院、美国联邦第九巡回法院等多地的律师执照，目前是德恒律师事务所硅谷办公室的首席合伙人、律师。朱律师曾经长期在硅谷、旧金山等地的美国大型律所工作，专注于跨境投资并购、美国公司合规等领域的业务，还担任过世界银行等国际机构的资深法律顾问，曾接受《华尔街日报》、《中国经济评论》等多家知名媒体的采访，并在哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学、世界银行、美国外交关系委员会等知名场合发表专题演讲。朱律师长期关注中国企业在美国的高科技投资并购和合规问题，至今已经协助中国企业和基金在美国完成了涉及到芯片、无人车、新能源、人工智能、工业自动化、生物制药等领域总价值超过九十多亿美元的投资。朱律师在出口管制、海外投资审查、知识产权交易等领域积累了丰富的经验，代表中国企业多次与美国商务部、美国财政部等机构进行洽谈并达成合规方案，为中国客户极大的降低了在美国的合规风险。朱律师目前还担任了加州中美贸易促进会、硅谷华人工程师协会、中美高科技年度投资峰会等多家民间机构和智库在跨境并购与高科技领域的指定律师。
   

 Treasurer, Member of the Board 

•  Ying Cao is the founder of Ying Cao Law LLC in the Greater New York area of the United States, and the Secretary General of the Corporate Business Committee of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Bar Association. She is licensed to practice Law in New York and New Jersey. Yin Cao Law LLC's main business practices include: H-1B, L-1, O-1, E-2/E-3 and all the other working visas, EB-2/3 professional immigration, EB-1C business immigration, EB-1A/EB-1B, NIW outstanding talent immigration, EB-5 investment immigration, MNC Structure, corporation law, commercial and residential real estate, commercial Litigation, etc. Ying has worked for Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Pryor Cashman LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP. From the practice in 2006, her clients range from listed companies and start-ups to professionals and outstanding talents in various fields. The firm's strong professional quality, cost-effective services, well above the industry average success rate of cases, and efficient attorneys as well as case management team have made it well known in the greater New York area. 
• 曹英律师是位于美国大纽约地区Ying Cao Law LLC (英卓律师事务所)创始人,美国移民律师协会纽约分会公司业务委员会秘书长，拥有纽约和新泽西两州的律师执照。 英卓律师事务所主营业务包括：H-1B，L-1，O-1，E-2/E-3等各类工作签证、EB-2/3职业移民，EB-1C商业移民、EB-1A/EB-1B、NIW杰出人才类移民、EB-5 投资移民、跨国公司架构、公司法，商业和民用地产，商业诉讼等等。曹律师曾先后供职于苏利文.克伦威尔律师事务所(Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)，普凯律师事务所(Pryor Cashman LLP) 以及古德温波特 (Goodwin Procter LLP)。从2006年执业至今，曹律师的客户从上市公司，初创企业到各领域专业人士和杰出人才。过硬的专业素质，高性价比的服务，远高于业界平均水平的案件成功率，高效的律师和案件管理团队，让英卓律师事务所在大纽约地区声名鹊起。
   

  Secretary, Member of the Board

• Gang Yuan is an attorney with rich experience in cross-border business. He has been a partner and senior attorney in one of the world's top-ranked large British and American law firms and his cumulative practice is more than 16 years. His professional experience has involved providing legal advice to clients on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity transactions and dispute resolution. His main business area is advising Chinese clients on overseas investment and foreign clients' investments in China. His extraordinary experiences includes representing a variety of Chinese companies in overseas investments, financing and acquisitions, representing major Chinese energy companies, industry-leading public companies and large private companies in outbound investments, especially supporting Chinese companies in investment and dispute resolution in the United States. Gang has also represented multinational companies on acquisitions in China, including acquisitions of Chinese companies by the world's largest private equity funds and multinational companies. Gang has also successfully represented clients in numerous private equity transactions and delved into a number of insurance deals. Gang works with America's leading family offices to provide legal services to high-net-worth individuals. Gang is a practicing attorney in New Jersey, New York and California. 
• 袁刚律师是一名有丰富跨境业务经验的律师，曾经在全球排名前列的大型英美律所担任合伙人和资深律师，累计执业超过16年。工作经验涉及向客户提供有关合并收购、首次公开发行、私募交易及争议解决的法律咨询。他的主要业务领域是向中国客户进行海外投资交易及外国客户对华投资提供咨询。他的经验包括代表中国的各类企业进行各种海外投资、融资和收购，代表中国的大型能源公司、行业领先的上市公司及大型民企的对外投资，特别是为中国企业在美国的投资和争议的解决提供支持。袁律师也代表跨国公司对中国的收购，包括代表世界大型私募基金和跨国公司对中国企业的并购。袁律师还代表客户进行过众多私募交易。他还深入处理过多项保险交易。袁钢先生还与美国领先的家族办公室合作，为高净值人士提供法律服务。袁律师是美国新泽西州、纽约州和加州的执业律师。

 Member of the Board 

• Ms. Ying Li is a partner at the New York office and the head of the Firm’s China Practice. She obtained J.D. from Cornell Law School. Ms. Li focuses her practice in the areas of corporate finance, corporate, and securities law. She assists public and private companies in their corporate transactions including securitizations, banking, public financings, international market financings, cross-border acquisitions and other general matters. Her experience includes representation of issuers of securities as well as investors, underwriters and placement agents in connection with both public and private offerings of equity and debt securities in the U.S. In particular, Ms. Li advises various China-based and U.S. listed companies in connection with their underwritten offerings, private placements and reverse merger transactions. She counsels public companies with respect to periodic reporting obligations as well as on corporate governance issues. Ms. Li has also represented foreign investors and real estate developers in connection with the U.S. EB-5 Investment Program. Ms. Li’s clients include bio-tech companies, software developers, FINRA registered broker/dealers and other companies involved in the financial sector, SPACs, pharmaceutical companies, real estate developers, manufacturing companies, high net worth individuals, and a number of small businesses. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Li was a partner of the New York office of Zhong Lun Law Firm (中伦律师事务所). She also spent time as an associate in several securities law firms in New York.
• 李莹律师是翰博文律师事务所纽约办公室的合伙人，也是此所中国业务负责人。李律师毕业于康奈尔大学法学院并拥有法学博士学位，执业州为纽约州，覆盖的业务范围包括证券法，公司融资，公司并购以及证券法合规等。 李莹律师在兼并收购、融资、上市公司证券法合规、公司治理、股东协议等方面拥有丰富的实务经验。李律师主要从事跨境收购、美股上市、公募私募融资、上市公司证券法合规等业务。李律师是进入杭州市政府资本市场专家库的首位美国执业律师。李律师精通英语、普通话和粤语。李律师负责过的经典案例有： 代理祁连国际（Nasdaq: QLI）的IPO项目；代理师董会（Nasdaq：SDH）的IPO项目；代理宝盛集团（Nasdaq：BAOS）的IPO项目；代理中北能源（Nasdaq：CNEY）的IPO项目； 代理天睿祥保险 （Nasdaq: TRIX）的IPO项目；代理华夏博雅（Nasdaq：CLEU）的IPO项目；代理龙运国际（Nasdaq：LYL）的IPO项目； 代理明大嘉和 （Nasdaq: MDJH）的IPO项目；代理亚洲时代 （Nasdaq: ATIF）的IPO项目；代表万通证券对亿邦国际进行总值2亿美金的再发行项目；代表中国水饮料集团以六亿五千万美元对价被在纽交所挂牌的Heckmann公司收购；代表某业务重心在亚洲的特殊目的公司（SPAC）的六千万美元的IPO项目；代表某纽约房地产公司与花旗银行签订三亿美元定期贷款协议；代表美国Laboratory Partners公司以五千三百万美元收购一个私人医药公司； 为数十个美国上市公司提供证券法合规、常规申报（比如季报、年报、股东公告）的服务

Member of the Board 

• Zhidong Wang, founder and managing partner at Wang, Leonard, Condon & Seyfried, is a nationally acclaimed attorney embarking on his third decade of serving the Chinese community nationwide. Growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, Z taught himself a variety of subjects with whatever books he could lay his hands on. By 1987, Z had successfully completed his master’s program in International Relations in Beijing. Having achieved the epitome of what he could accomplish in China, Z came to the United States with little money and a wealth of determination. In 1994, Z graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School then in 1996 opened the doors to his own law firm, Z. Wang & Associates after a two-year service with a big firm in Chicago. From 1996 to 2004, Z‘s law practice focused primarily on immigration law and his China practice. He has assisted thousands from the Asian Community with their immigration, real estate and business transactions. His China practice grew along with his reputation as hundreds of Asian companies have sought his advice and counsel on the implementation of business start-ups in the United States as well as U.S. companies with their market entry ventures into China. During the past two decades, Z has expanded the firm’s practice to civil litigation, criminal trials, real estate, business transaction, and corporate matters. His work has been acknowledged and reported by national media in China and in the U.S. Z spent countless hours helping Yingying Zhang’s family in their searching of her body and justice in the United States since the tragedy in 2017. Now he is representing six Chinese families in their wrongful death lawsuits in the US Federal Court against Boeing and other defendants related to an aviation disaster happened in Ethiopia in 2019. Z has been admitted to the Bar in the State of Illinois, two Federal District Courts in Illinois, and the Federal Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuit. He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In addition to these memberships, Z served as a Director of the Board for the Notre Dame Law Association for 20 years. Since 2008, he has been chosen, as the only one from the Midwest U.S., to serve as a legal counsel for the Legal Advisory Committee of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.
• 王志东律师，美国法律博士，在芝加哥执业27年，为王志东律师事务所（Wang, Leonard, Condon & Seyfried, LLP）管理合伙人，主要代理中国公民和企业在美国的法律事务，其代理的案件包括：章莹颖被绑架致死案 – 为其家人提供义务法律援助，凶手被判处终身监禁不得保释；埃航空难起诉波音案 – 代理多个中国遇难者家庭状告美国波音公司，目前仍在进行之中；虚拟货币和区块链案 – 常年代理中国该行业顶尖公司之一在美业务；各类移民案 – 特殊人才和工作类移民，投资移民，亲属移民，擅长移民法庭，上诉法庭和联邦巡回法庭的各类诉讼。王志东律师曾在Notre Dame 法学院理事会担任理事、顾问共20年，自2008年起担任中国侨联海外法律顾问，曾参加国务院侨办组织的世界海外律师参访活动并任团长，担任中华海外联谊会理事，受邀参加庆祝抗日战争胜利70周年和国庆70周年天安门广场阅兵观礼。王志东律师事务所的十位律师和近三十位助理中分别有一半成员可以熟练使用中文为客户服务。

  Member of the Board 

• Dr. Cui found Univest Securities in November 1993 and has more than 30 years of experience in financial and investment management. She led Univest Securities successfully through the "tech bubble" in 2000 and "sub-prime crisis" in 2008. Univest Securities is the member of FINRA and SIPC, provides individual and institution investors and companies full line of Brokerage services: Corporate and Government Debt Securities, Mutual Funds, Market-Making in Corporate Securities, Options & Derivatives, Life Insurance and Annuities, Investment Advisory Services, Investment Research, Financial and Tax planning, Underwriting or selling group participant, Mergers and Acquisitions, Asset Management, Private placement of securities. Univest Securities raised capital for following Companies: INMB $8,166,500; MRZM $7,000,240; HAPP $11,000,000; ANPC $16,000,032; QLI $28,750,000; $ BAOS $34,500,000; GSMG $14,375,000; UPC $25,000,000; TANH $10,000,000; EBON $335,000,000; etc.
• 崔博士于1993年11月创立万通证券，在金融管理和投资领域拥有30多年的经验。她成功带领万通证券度过了2000年的“技术泡沫”和2008年的“次贷危机”。万通证券是 FINRA和SIPC的成员，为个人，机构，和公司提供全系列的经纪服务：公司和政府债务，共同基金，公司证券，期权与衍生产品，人寿保险和年金，投资咨询，投资研究，财务及税务规划，IPO承销 和 已上市公司的融资及私募，并购，资产管理。万通证券的投行部为以下公司募集了资金：INMB $8,166,500; MRZM $ 7,000,240; HAPP $ 11,000,000; ANPC $ 16,000,032; QLI $28,750,000; $ BAOS $ 34,500,000; GSMG $ 14,375,000; UPC $ 25,000,000; TANH $ 10,000,000; EBON $ 335,000,000, ETC。