Tianshu (Allie) Ji

Allie is an experienced corporate transactions attorney focused on advising publicly traded and privately held companies including private equity firms and their portfolio companies in various corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, business formation and development, corporate governance, and commercial contracting.

Prior to joining Calfee in 2023, Allie served as an Associate in the Business Department at Richards, Layton & Finger, a Delaware firm. During her tenure, she provided counsel and legal opinions in connection with a wide range of formation, operational, and governance matters involving Delaware limited partnerships and limited liability companies. Her practice includes advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, conversions, and dissolutions, as well as investment fund, structured finance, joint venture, and financing transactions.

In addition to her transactional work, Allie built a litigation profile by actively engaging in cases before the Delaware Chancery Court.

While in law school, Allie worked as an Extern at FINRA in New York and served as a Legal Intern for Charter Communications in St. Louis, Missouri.

Honors & Recognitions

Distinguished 30 Under 30 Alumni, LLM-JD Chinese Student Association (2022)

Alford Excellence Award, Delaware State Bar Association (2021)

Education

J.D., cum laude, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, 2021

• Certificate in Business Law, Certificate in Public Interest Law
• Scholar in Law Award, Washington Award, International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award
• President of the China Law Society, Member of the Dean’s Students Advisory Counsel, Member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court
• Media and Symposium Editor, Washington University Global Studies Law Review (2020-2021)

Master of Public Affairs, Indiana University – Bloomington, 2016

Bachelor of Management, Public Administration; Bachelor of Law, Nanjing Tech University (China), 2014

Experience

• Calfee served as lead counsel representing the seller, a Midwestern Ohio manufacturing company, in the 2024 disposition of the equity of its business.
• Calfee served as exclusive counsel to a multi-billion private equity firm client in its 2024 sale of all of the equity interests of a portfolio company to a global private equity firm.
• Calfee served as lead and sole legal counsel to a California-based consultant and broker-dealer in the sale of its subsidiaries to a publicly traded Fortune 1000 company. (2024)

Publications/Presentations

Co-translated the book, "Why Privacy Matters, which was released in China in 2023 with recommendations from numerous mainstream media outlets, including Wangyi, Wenhui, and Zhihu.

Co-presented a webinar on the book, "Why Privacy Matters" with the author Neil Richards and hosted by Xian Jiaotong University to an audience of 10,000+ people in 2023.