Lu Zhou is a Partner at Dacheng Shanghai office. She has been with the firm since 2008. In recent years, she and her team have assisted domestic enterprises in completing cross-border investment, financing, and trading projects in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and other regions along the "Belt and Road."

She is qualified to practice law in both the PRC and the State of New York, USA. She graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law with a Bachelor's degree in Law and later obtained a Master's degree in Law and a Master's degree in Business Administration in the United States. In 2016, she was nominated and recommended to join the “All-China Lawyer Association Talents Pool for Cross-Border Transaction Legal Services.” In 2018, she participated in the “Foreign-Related Leading Talent” training program (international trade and cross-border mergers and acquisitions) in the United States sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. She was listed in the 2023 LexisNexis “Elite Under 40” for Mainland China. In 2024, she was appointed a member of the Specialist Mediator Panel of the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and later passed with distinction the "Dual City and Two Court Dual Certification" program of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) and the South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong) (SCIAHK). Her practice focuses on corporate and M&A, cross-border transactions, dispute resolution, and capital market-related services.

Advised a Chinese stock market listed manufacturing company on its outbound investment in Austria

Advised a Chinese manufacturing company (semiconductor industry related) on its outbound investment in Israel

Advised a Chinese medical devices manufacturing company on its outbound investment in Germany

Advised a Chinese private equity fund on its outbound investment in a German manufacturing company (semiconductor industry related)

Advised a Chinese logistic company on its outbound investment in Brazil

Advised a Chinese solar energy company on its JV project with a French company in China

Advised a US biotechnology company on its JV project with a Chinese company in China

Advised a Thai company on its acquisition of shares in a Taiwanese-funded sheet metal sales enterprise in China

Advised an Italian logistics company in its acquisition of shares in its joint venture company in China

Represented a private technology company in Changzhou, China, in a dispute over a cooperation agreement with a German partner (domestic arbitration)

Represented an Australian wheat export company in a dispute over an international goods sale contract with two Chinese companies respectively in Qingdao and Hong Kong (domestic litigation)

Represented a US ophthalmology company in a dispute over a Sino-foreign joint venture contract (domestic litigation)

Represented a Japanese-invested company and its British affiliate in a dispute with a state-owned automobile manufacturer over an engineering and technical agreement (domestic litigation)

Represented an auto parts manufacturing enterprise (wholly foreign-owned) in a dispute with a dealer over a franchise agreement (domestic arbitration)

Represented an auto parts manufacturing enterprise (wholly foreign-owned) in a dispute with a supplier over a sales contract (domestic litigation)