About
I am an SJD candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law, where my research focuses on corporate finance and securities regulation. My recent work examines cross-border securities enforcement, private placement disclosure, and the effects of public venture capital on entrepreneurship. My work has been published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Business Law Journal. In recent work, I revisit the bonding hypothesis in Legalism without Information: Foreign Issuers, U.S. Enforcement, and the Limits of Bonding, which examines the SEC’s 2025 Concept Release on Foreign Private Issuers. My dissertation is supervised by Professor Paul G. Mahoney.
Before entering academia, I was an associate at Affinity Equity Partners, a pan-Asian private equity firm, and practiced with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s mergers and capital markets group. I hold a JSM from Stanford Law School, a Juris Master from Peking University Law School (China National Scholarship, top 0.2%), and a BA in philosophy (concentration in logic and computation) from Sun Yat-sen University.