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‘Extremely good with exceptional depth’, Tim Steinert is currently leading Alibaba’s US IPO, which ‘could be the largest initial stock offering in US history’. Steinert has served as Alibaba Group’s general counsel and corporate secretary for seven years. During that time he has closed over 15 M&A deals, including HiChina’s acquisition and the company’s billion-dollar online payment spin-out, Alipay. Steinert oversees a legal department of over 80 lawyers, split across key specialisms including intellectual property and investment. Before Alibaba, Mr Steinert was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and also worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Coudert Brothers. He is particularly experienced in cross-border M&A, Hong Kong IPOs and overseas stock offerings of Chinese companies, and is fluent in Mandarin.