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Catherine is a Partner in Dorsey & Whitney’s Corporate Department and leads the firm’s globally recognized U.S.-China transactional practice. As a highly skilled attorney and trusted advisor, Catherine is relied on by our clients to handle their strategic corporate transactions and to solve complex legal problems for their business. She has a strong client following among some of the world’s largest corporations, financial institutions and business leaders. She frequently serves as their chief outside legal counsel. The strategic corporate transactions Catherine handles include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity and debt financings, and other cross-border corporate transactions. Her transactional achievements include: - designing global corporate and investments structures for several international conglomerates to successfully achieve their business expansion goals, - representing a series of Chinese companies in acquiring cutting-edge technologies and brand names in the U.S. through M&As and investments, - representing companies and investment funds in strategic investments into industries and technology areas that represent the future economy, and - advising international financial institutions in designing U.S. market penetration strategies through branch opening, alternative expansion methods and new financial product offerings. In addition to her transactional experience, Catherine also oversees risk management, dispute resolution and investigation matters for corporate clients and their officers and directors. She works closely with our litigation teams in litigation prevention and risk management for corporate transactions, as well as in mapping out important litigation strategies for our corporate clients. The techniques Catherine developed have been proven highly successful in solving business disputes. Her risk management and dispute resolution work include: - winning post-closing fights regarding net working capital and earn-out payments through negotiation and dispute resolution, - solving founders disputes and shareholder disputes, including several intense incidents that occur before the eve of corporate IPOs or bet-the-company types of transactions, - protecting minority shareholders’ rights and economic stakes in several controlling shareholder dominated situations, and - guiding several Chinese public companies or their directors and officers through internal and SEC investigation process and achieving positive results through effective defense strategies. Catherine was elected Partner in 2012, one of our youngest attorneys to make partner. She serves in various leadership positions. She is Co-Chair of the U.S. - China Practice Group. She also chairs the Marketing Committee and Diversity Committee of the New York office.