Ji Lu is a partner in the Private Equity M&A Group. In her practice, Ji has represented private equity and strategic buyers and sellers in the United States and Europe in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buy-outs, minority investments, joint ventures, carve-out transactions and recapitalizations in a variety of industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, asset management, pharmaceuticals, software, satellite, financial services, trading and brokerage. Ji also advises sponsors in the M&A aspects of private funds secondary transactions.

Ji’s experience includes the following representations:

Oak Hill Capital and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including its:
- portfolio company, Metronet, in its sale to a joint venture between T-Mobile and KKR
- portfolio company, Metronet, in its co-investment by KKR and Oak Hill Capital
- portfolio company, Berlin, in its recapitalization and various acquisitions
- portfolio company, Mercer, in the expansion of its ownership group to include Altas Partners
KPS Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including its:
- acquisition of the porcelain enamel, glass coatings, forehearth colorants and frit-based metallurgical products businesses of Prince International Corporation
- acquisition of the fitness business of Brunswick Corporation, including the Life Fitness brand
- sale of the attachments division of its portfolio company, International Equipment Solutions, to Stanley Black & Decker
- sale of Genesis Attachments to NPK Construction Equipment
- sale of Anchor Glass Container Corporation to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners and BA Glass B.V.
- sale of Waupaca Foundry to Hitachi Metals
- acquisition of Anchor Glass Container Corporation
- acquisitions by its portfolio company, International Equipment Solutions of Saic do Brasil Ltda. in Brazil and CWS Industries (Mfg) Corp. in Canada
- acquisition of Waupaca Foundry from ThyssenKrupp Budd Company
General Atlantic in its:
- various continuation funds transactions, including its debut multi-asset continuation fund totaling $3 billion, the largest secondaries fund raised at the time
- investments in Authentic Brands Group, Gen II and EN Engineering
- acquisition and combination of two online brokerage firms, OptionsHouse and tradeMonster
- $2.7 billion sale of Gavilon Holdings to Marubeni Corporation
CI Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including:
- portfolio company Maroon Group, in various add-on acquisitions and subsequent sale of the portfolio company to Cinven backed Barentz International
- acquisition of the portfolio company Mariani Landscape and subsequent add-on acquisitions
Wellspring Capital Management in its $975 million multi-asset continuation fund
Ericsson in its:
- acquisitions of Nortel’s North American GSM business and multi service switch business
- formation of consortium Rockstar Bidco and the acquisition by Rockstar of Nortel's $4.5 billion patent portfolio
- separate acquisitions of Telcordia Technologies, Microsoft Mediaroom, Apcera and Azuki Systems
- the divestment of its media business, Media Solutions, to One Equity Partners
- sale of a minority stake in iconectiv to Francisco Partners
- sale of patent portfolio to Unwired Planet, Inc.
- separate divestitures of Applied Communication Sciences and Ericsson Federal
Citigroup, in its disposition of the retail brokerage business of Nikko Cordial for $7.9 billion to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Alliance Tire Group, a global manufacturer and seller of off highway tires for agriculture, construction and forestry machinery
SOFIE Biosciences, in a substantial strategic growth investment made by Trilantic North America
Befesa S.A. in its acquisition of American Zinc Recycling Corp.
NAV CANADA in its investment in Aireon, the developer of the world's first space-based global air traffic surveillance system
Intelsat in its formation of a South African joint venture and completion of a related project financing for a new satellite
Grain Management in its acquisition of wireless spectrum from AT&T and Verizon Wireless