Mr. Libin ZHANG graduated from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 1997 with a J.D. degree. Having been in practice for over 20 years, Mr. ZHANG has accumulated lots of experience in practice at prestigious U.S. and Chinese law firms as lawyers and partners. He is currently the head of Legal M&A, Asia & Australia for Siemens. He is also a fellow at the Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Institute of Peking University.

Mr. ZHANG specializes in M&A and overseas investments in the energy sector, and has successfully represented many large Chinese and foreign energy companies in their domestic and cross-border as well as outbound investment (including representing Chinese companies for acquisition of oil and gas assets in the U.S.). Mr. ZHANG successfully represented a client in energy dispute-related arbitration and appeared in arbitration proceedings and provided legal advice as a PRC energy law expert.

Mr. ZHANG is an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and Beijing Arbitration Commission. He is on the advisory board of the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law of the UT Law School at Austin; he is also a specially invited professor for the International LLM Program at Tsinghua University School of Law. He is also an adjunct professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, the Law School of the University of International Business and Economics and the Law School of Beijing Foreign Language Studies University and taught courses on energy law, M&A, lawyering skills, and common law, etc. In the spare time, he takes interests in academic studies, legal writing and translation and has published books and translations on contract law, M&A, and energy law (including the “U.S. Energy Law (nutshell)” and the “Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States: A Practical Guide for Non-U.S. Buyers”). He also writes articles and gives lectures on PRC energy issues. He has also been invited by Research Center of Chinese to participate as an energy law expert in research projects regarding the policy of oil and gas industry of China.