About
Wallace Bao, a corporate partner in Troutman Pepper Locke's New York office, advises clients on mergers and acquisitions. Those matters include domestic deals and cross-border transactions. He also counsels clients on venture capital deals, joint ventures, and going-private transactions. Since 2015, he has handled China and U.S. deals from Beijing and from New York. Wallace earned an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2015, where he was a James Kent Scholar, and a J.M. from Peking University in 2013. Before his legal career he managed acquisition and divestiture projects in China and across Asia on the business side, experience he now pairs with legal counsel on cross-border deals.
Who is a good fit for Wallace Bao
- Companies completing a merger or acquisition between China and the U.S.
- Owners pursuing a going-private transaction for their company.
- Founders raising venture capital for a company they own.
- Businesses forming a joint venture with another company.
Education and admissions
- Education
- Columbia Law School, LL.M., 2015
- Peking University, J.M., 2013
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, M.A. in English literature, 1999
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, B.A. in English, 1996
- Bar admissions
- New York
Recognition
- James Kent Scholar
Specialties
Buy-side M&A representationSell-side M&A representation
Representative matters
As described on the firm’s website.
- Represented a fiber optics infrastructure company in its sale of certain fiber optics assets to a private equity-backed provider of fiber networks.
- Represented a provider of residential and light commercial HVAC services in its growth equity financing transaction with a private equity sponsor.
- Represented a Chinese contract sales organization in connection with its acquisition of certain pharmaceutical product rights and a pharmaceutical plant in China from a multinational pharmaceutical company.
- Represented a Chinese investment conglomerate in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of real properties in the U.S.
Deal profile
- Typical deal size
- Any deal size
- Remote work
- In-person / regional