| EXPERIENCE: Jonathan Zhu is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on domestic and international tax matters. Jonathan has extensive experience with federal income tax planning for domestic and foreign investors in a broad spectrum of U.S. assets, including technology, real estate, infrastructure and energy, and financial assets. He regularly advises foreign clients regarding U.S. tax issues arising from non-investment activities—such as the provisioning of services and sales of goods—in the U.S., as well as U.S. clients seeking to establish a presence or expand activities outside the U.S. He spends a substantial portion of his time on private equity and other transactions requiring intensive and tailored tax structuring. Prior to the practice of law, Jonathan was with McKinsey & Company. Before law school, Jonathan conducted research in theoretical condensed matter physics; he currently has an h-index of 15. Jonathan is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese.
EDUCATION: - J.D., Yale Law School, 1998
Editor, The Yale Law Journal - Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
- B.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1987
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS: - Member, State Bar of California
 Jonathan Zhu
continued |
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: - "Cross-Border Tax Issues Involving Single-Owner Grantor Trusts," 122 Tax Notes 1247, March 2009
- "Partnership-Related Withholding Rules for Interest Payments," 109 Tax Notes 820, November 2005
- "Tax Deeming Rules: A Method to the Madness," 105 Tax Notes 1425, December 2004
ADMISSIONS: |