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About Ziqian Tao

Tao is an associate in our New York office. Tao 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: 

  • PropertyGuru on its pending $1.1 billion sale to EQT
  • Sonoco on its pending $3.9 billion acquisition of Eviosys 
  • Peerless Aerospace on its $300 million sale to Diploma plc
  • Renesas on its now terminated $249 million acquisition of Sequans Communications
  • Qualtrics on its $12.5 billion sale to Silver Lake and CPP Investments
  • Ritchie Bros. on its $7.3 billion acquisition of IAA
  • WHP Global on its strategic partnership with Express
  • iRobot on its now terminated $1.7 billion sale to Amazon
  • Edgio on its $300 million acquisition of Yahoo’s Edgecast 
  • Vida Ventures on its investment in Affini-T Therapeutics’ $175 million financing
  • Cedar Realty Trust on its $1.2 billion sale of the Company and Assets
  • Biocon Biologics on its $3.335 billion acquisition of Viatris’ Biosimilars Assets 
  • Kingswood Capital Management on 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