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Tiana Zhang is a litigation partner in the Shanghai office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP where she advises clients on complex cross-border investigations, disputes and crisis management arising from their business in China and the United States. She has advised numerous multi-national and Chinese global companies on a wide array of high-stakes matters relating to accounting fraud, securities law compliance, anti-corruption, trade secret, antitrust, data privacy and U.S. trade control issues. She has extensive experience handling cross-border investigations and parallel lawsuits involving multiple jurisdictions and helping clients navigate challenging and delicate circumstances.

Tiana has been named as a “Leading Individual” for China Regulatory and Compliance in 2018–2025 and for China Dispute Resolution in 2020–2025 by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, and also as “Leading Lawyer of the Year” in the Legal 500 China Awards 2023. She was also listed as “Litigation Star” in White Collar Crime by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2024, as one of the “Future Leaders” in Investigations by Who’s Who Legal 2022, and as one of the top foreign firm lawyers for China-related business in the 2021 and 2022 editions of China Business Law Journal’s A-List.

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Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption (International Firms) - China

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Tiana Zhang serves a host of foreign corporations from the firm's base in Shanghai. She is best known for handling internal policy reviews, audits, government-led investigations and matters relating to financial crime.

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