
Corporate M&A
Financial Services
Technology
Life Sciences
Zheng (Jonathan) Zhou is a Partner at Freshfields in New York City, specializing in complex domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate transactions. With extensive experience in leading high-profile M&A projects, Jonathan has advised on acquisitions and sales of both private and publicly traded companies, as well as investments by private equity and sovereign wealth funds. His expertise spans various sectors, including technology, financial services, and life sciences. Recognized among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Duke University.
Jonathan's representative experience includes advising:

- CrowdStrike acquired the target/assets from Pangea in a acquisition on not available. - Deal value was 3900000000 Sector: Technology; Location: not available. - On the acquirer side, not available advised, led by Brock Dahl, Calise Cheng, Denny Kwon, Joe Soltis, Kevin Yingling, Meghan Rissmiller, Mena Kaplan, Sarah Ghulamhussain, Zheng (Jonathan) Zhou.
Sep 16 2025
4B
M&A

Partner
2022 – Unknown
Counsel
2019 – 2022
Senior Attorney
2019 – 2019
Associate
2016 – 2019

- Sonoco sold the stake/assets to Arsenal Capital Partners as part of a acquisition on not available. - Deal value was 725000000 (source: Extracted) Sector: Packaging; Location: USA. - On the seller side, not available advised, led by Alice Greenwell, Brock Dahl, Damien Zoubek, Dawn Heath, Jenn Mellott, Joe Soltis, John Rousakis, Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum, Kyle Lakin, Lori Goodman, Menachem Kaplan, Meredith Bayley, Pamela Marcogliese, Rhys Evans, Stephanie Brown Cripps, Zheng (Jonathan) Zhou.
Sep 08 2025
725M
M&A
1 min
Attorney
2009 – 2016
Attorney
2007 – 2009