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About Ziqian Tao

Ziqian is an associate in our New York office. Ziqian focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. He has experience representing public and private acquirers and target companies in domestic and cross-border transactions.

Recent work

Tao’s representative experience includes: 

  • Peerless Aerospace in its $300 million sale to Diploma plc
  • Renesas in its $249 million acquisition of Sequans Communications
  • Qualtrics in its $12.5 billion sale to Silver Lake and CPP Investments
  • Ritchie Bros. in its $7.3 billion acquisition of IAA
  • WHP Global in its transformative strategic partnership with Express
  • iRobot in its $1.4 billion sale to Amazon
  • Edgio in its $300 million acquisition of Yahoo’s Edgecast 
  • Vida Ventures in its investment of Affini-T Therapeutics’ $175 million financing
  • Cedar Realty Trust in its $1.2 billion sale of the Company and Assets
  • Biocon Biologics in its $3.335 billion acquisition of Viatris’ Biosimilars Assets 
  • Kingswood Capital Management in its sale of Senture

Qualifications

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2021

  • J.D.

Cornell University, 2017

  • B.A. in Economics and Philosophy, with distinction

Bar Admission

  • New York