Palo Alto-based Cooley has expanded its presence in China with the opening of an office in Beijing that will focus on private investment funds formation and structuring. The Beijing office is the firm’s second in China; Cooley opened an office in Shanghai in 2011.

Xun Zeng

The new office will initially have three lawyers: former Ropes & Gray counsel Xun Zeng joins Cooley as resident partner, and associates Jingyi Xu and Bin Wang relocate from Shanghai.