Chen Leiming

Mr. Leiming Chen is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Sustainability Officer of Ant International. Mr. Chen is responsible for Ant International’s strategic development, including public policy and government affairs, strategic partnership and new market expansion. He also leads Ant International’s sustainability initiatives and the formulation and implementation of the sustainable development strategy. Mr. Chen joined Ant Group as a Senior Vice President in March 2016 and served as Ant Group’s General Counsel from March 2016 to May 2020.

Prior to joining us, Mr. Chen was a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a New York-based international law firm where he led the China practice and worked on a variety of equity and debt offerings. He was also responsible for mergers and acquisitions involving PRC companies, including his lead U.S. counsel role in advising Alibaba Group in its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in corporate governance and regulatory matters. He is qualified to practice law in the State of New York and is a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong.