Jing Cao focuses her practice primarily on entertainment and media finance and investment transactions. Cao represents major studios, production and distribution companies, commercial banks, investment funds, and financial institutions that are based in both U.S. and China in corporate finance transactions, film slate and single-picture financings, and production and distribution of motion pictures.

Cao also regularly helps her clients navigate issues in connection with cross-border finance, co-production and distribution transactions. In addition to her core practice in the entertainment and media sector, Cao is also regularly involved in many other types of US-China cross-border investment transactions. Previously, Cao was a legal consultant in the Shanghai office of an international law firm, where she represented clients on matters ranging from telecommunications, broadcasting and logistics, to commerce, banking and employment issues. Cao earned her Bachelor’s degree in law from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and her LL.M. from Columbia University.