Albert Zhu
Lawyers
Represents U.S. and international clients, including private equity firms, on public and private mergers and acquisitions and other matters.
Albert represents U.S. and international clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, corporate governance, shareholder activism and other general corporate matters. He also advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a range of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of investments, leveraged buyouts and minority investments.
Experience
Recent Work
- Cheney Brothers $2.1 billion acquisition by Performance Food Group
- Airbus potential acquisition of certain Spirit AeroSystems activities
- Delta, Certares, Knighthead and Cox investment in Wheels Up
- Shearman & Sterling merger with Allen & Overy
- JPMorgan acquires assets and assumes certain liabilities of First Republic
- HNI $485 million acquisition of Kimball International
- Brookfield $8.3 billion acquisition of CDK Global
- MSCI $950 million acquisition of Real Capital Analytics
- Lucid Motors $24 billion combination with Churchill Capital Corp IV
- Morgan Stanley $7 billion acquisition of Eaton Vance
- Natura acquisition of Avon
- Davis Polk Advises Cornell Capital on Its Acquisition of Frédéric Fekkai Brands in Partnership with Frédéric Fekkai
- Emerson acquisition of General Electric’s Intelligent Platforms business
- Davis Polk Advises Contura Energy on the Merger of Alpha Natural Resources with Contura
- Davis Polk Advises Roche on Its Acquisition of Flatiron Health
- Davis Polk Advises Tailwind Capital on Its Acquisition of HMT
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School
- cum laude
B.B.A., Accounting, University of Texas at Austin
- summa cum laude
M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin
Qualifications and admissions
- District of Columbia
- State of New York