Yixuan Zhu is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Beijing office. Her practice focuses on representing Chinese companies and individuals in cross-border litigation, arbitration, and government enforcement action. Yixuan is a founding member of the firm’s China practice. She helped the firm open both of its Shanghai and Beijing offices and worked in the firm’s New York office for years.
Yixuan has first-hand experience in nearly every type of cross-border dispute. Yixuan has handled commercial and intellectual property litigations in federal and state courts in New York, Delaware, California, Texas, Minnesota, and Florida, and is very familiar with all stages of U.S. litigation proceedings including pleadings, discovery, motion practice, mediation, trial, and appeal. She has litigated cases involving securities, corporate governance, copyright, patent, trade secret misappropriation, complicated financial matters, investment, antitrust, and UCC auctions etc.
Yixuan has worked on HKIAC arbitrations, including obtaining a complete victory on liability for a Chinese investor in an investment dispute governed by Hong Kong law, and is currently representing an investor in an investment treaty arbitration against a Southeast Asian State.
Yixuan has also represented a variety of clients in complex government investigations that involve a wide range of issues, such as economic sanction, securities disclosure, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) issues, as well as managed multi-pronged and multi-jurisdictional crisis matters, such as global asset recovery and corporate control battles. She has advised clients from the finance, blockchain and cryptocurrency, internet technology, manufacturing, telecommunication, energy, real estate investment, and healthcare industries.
With her Chinese background and experience working closely with Chinese clients on all types of disputes, Yixuan has a deep understanding of the cultural nuances and challenges Chinese clients typically face, including those arising out of conflict of laws and legal culture differences. Her background and experience make her uniquely suited to guide Chinese clients through their most intricate and sensitive overseas disputes in real time and in their native language.
Yixuan passed the Chinese bar exam in 2011, although her qualifications are inactive because she works at an international law firm.
- Blockchain and Digital Asset Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
- Corporate Governance Litigation
- Crisis Law & Strategy Group
- Delaware Practice
- International Arbitration
- Transnational Litigation
- Section 1782
- Investigations, Government Enforcement & White Collar Criminal Defense Practice
- Harvard Law School
(LL.M., 2017) - Peking University, School of Transnational Law
(J.D. in American law/J.M. in Chinese law, with Honors, 2014)- Peking University Transnational Law Review:
- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor
- Peking University Transnational Law Review:
- Peking University, School of Economics
(B.A., Economics, 2010)
- The State Bar of New York
- United States District Courts:
- Southern District of New York
- Eastern District of New York
- Mandarin
- English
- Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Dispute Resolution: Litigation: Foreign Firms, Next Generation Partners, 2025
- Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Dispute Resolution: Litigation: Foreign Firms, 2024-2025