Associate
She/Her/Hers
Zijun Zhao is an associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins.
Zijun represents financial institutions, corporations, and directors and officers across a variety of sectors — including financial services, cryptocurrency, and technology — in federal and state court proceedings, as well as regulatory enforcement actions and internal investigations, often with a cross-border component. She has extensive experience in insolvency litigation.
Zijun maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on asylum and criminal and socio-economic justice, and has successfully helped clients obtain asylum and clear criminal records.
Zijun earned her JD from Duke University School of Law, where she served as articles editor of the Duke Law Journal and student attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic.
Zijun was previously a judicial extern for Judge Edward M. Chen of the US District Court for the Northern District of California and was a summer associate in the New York office.
Zijun’s commercial and insolvency litigation experience includes representing:
Zijun’s white-collar defense and investigations work includes representing:
A Latham team, led by partners Chris Harris and Adam Goldberg and counsel Tiffany Ikeda Austin, won a bench trial in Delaware Bankruptcy Court that will enable the joint liquidators of Three Arrows Capital to amend its claim in the FTX bankruptcy from US$120 million to US$1.5 billion.
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.