Kenneth Zhou is a partner in the firm's Asia Corporate Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2004.

Practice
Mr. Zhou's practice focuses on foreign direct investment, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity/venture capital, joint ventures and strategic alliance, general corporate and business transactions, anti-trust and regulatory matters, cybersecurity and data privacy, and international dispute resolution. He has advised many multinational corporations in a wide range of industrial sectors including technology, automotive, aviation, media and entertainment, telecommunications, healthcare and life sciences, banking and financial services, publishing, consumer product and services industries with respect to their strategic expansion, investments and business operations in China and Asia. Mr. Zhou has also advised leading Chinese companies on their outbound investments, M&A and strategic business collaborations in the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world. In addition, he is also experienced in policy and regulatory matters affecting cross-border investment and trade between the U.S. and China.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Zhou was a corporate attorney and a member of the China Practice Group at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he worked in New York, Hong Kong and China.

Professional Activities
Mr. Zhou is former General Counsel and a member of the Board of Governors of American Chamber of Commerce in the People's Republic of China (AmCham China). He was re-elected to the Board of Governors of AmCham China in 2023.

Publications
Mr. Zhou is the author of various chapters (including foreign investment, intellectual property rights protection, anti-trust, competition and others) in AmCham China’s Annual White Paper (from 2015 to 2021). He authored the Business Organization Chapter published in Business Law in China: Trade, Investment, Operations and Finance. ICC Publ. No. 672, 2d rev. ed. He is also one of the authors of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law – The First Five Years, published by Wolters Kluwer in 2012. He has written articles in such periodicals as China Law & Practice, Asia Pacific Antitrust and Trade Review, Capital and others on a wide range of topics including M&A, corporate restructuring, private equity/venture capital investment, foreign direct investment in China, data compliance, tax and regulatory matters.
Mr. Zhou was interviewed and spoke at events organized by CNN, Bloomberg, CCTV, The American Lawyer, Cai Jin Magazine, South China Morning Post, American Chamber of Commerce China, 21st Century, Top Capital, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA), Asia Risk, and others on a variety of topics including cross-border M&A, anti-monopoly filings in China, equity financing, outbound investments of Chinese companies, dispute resolution, PE/VC investments, Internet law, SOE restructuring, qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII), qualified foreign limited partnership (QFLP), VIE structures, anti-monopoly law and national security review.

Mark Dreyer is the Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China). Before joining AmCham China in July 2018, he was the Senior Communications Manager at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Prior to switching to his current focus on corporate and strategic communications, Mark had various roles in the media. Formerly a football reporter with Sky Sports in the UK, he has also been a reporter and producer for both Fox Sports and AP Sports in the US, before moving to China ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He has since covered seven Olympic and Paralympic Games as an accredited journalist and has reported on sports events in five different continents, and has interviewed stars including Pele and David Beckham.

He has worked with a number of media outlets in China and is regularly asked to comment on the Chinese sports industry for BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times and many others. His book, “Sporting Superpower: An Insider’s View on China’s Quest to Be the Best”, which attempts to unravel the parallel threads of politics, economics and sports in China, was published in 2022.