据路透社报道，世达国际律师事务所香港办公室高级合伙人，同时也是中国业务负责人高准律师将于5月出任字节跳动首席财务官（CFO）一职。她未来将驻中国香港和新加坡办公。
高准自2009年起执业于世达国际律师事务所，业务领域主要集中于公司事务、资本市场、跨境兼并收购、私募融资、战略投资等。在加盟字节跳动之前，她曾协助其收购Musical.ly及沐瞳游戏公司，并于近年参与字节跳动多轮私募股权融资，交易总额超几十亿美元。
据财新报道，从业24年来，高准曾为超过100家科技公司提供包括上市、并购及融资等法律咨询服务，客户名单几乎囊括中国互联网所有平台型公司，除曾协助一众中国互联网企业完成在美国、香港和新加坡等地上市外，她还主导过诸多知名并购案例，包括百度收购YY直播、滴滴出行收购Uber China、滴滴与快的打车合并、美团收购摩拜单车、阿里巴巴收购优酷、京东收购腾讯电商平台业务和资产等。
字节跳动成立于2012年，是一家总部位于北京的跨国互联网技术公司，旗下产品包括今日头条、抖音及其海外版本TikTok等。高准律师出任该公司CFO一职之前，该职位曾由周受资担任，他于去年11月卸任，转而以首席执行官身份执掌TikTok。
据媒体报道，字节跳动CEO梁汝波在一封宣布高准加盟的内部信中表示：“从2016年开始，Julie就跟我们在公司的收购和融资项目上有很多合作，对我们的使命、文化、团队和业务都很熟悉。Julie对公司治理、企业发展有很多经验和思考，对很多处于不同阶段的公司提供过咨询和帮助，相信她的加入会给公司带来很大帮助。”
TikTok owner ByteDance hires Skadden China head as CFO
TikTok owner ByteDance has appointed Julie Gao, head of the China practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, as its new chief financial officer (CFO), according to an internal memo sent to staff on Monday and seen by Reuters.
Gao, one of Skadden's top capital markets lawyers, will be based in Hong Kong and Singapore once she joins ByteDance, according to the memo sent by ByteDance chief executive Liang Rubo.
A ByteDance spokesperson confirmed Gao's appointment.
Gao will join ByteDance in May, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
Gao has advised on ByteDance's acquisitions of Musical.ly, which was later integrated into TikTok, and Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton, according to her biography page on Skadden's official website.
The move comes after ByteDance's former CFO Shou Zi Chew, who joined the company in March 2021, stepped down in November from the CFO role to focus on being TikTok's CEO.
The company currently doesn't have a timeline for its much-anticipated IPO, according to the person.
ByteDance said last April it did not have any imminent plans for a public listing. Sources had previously told Reuters it was looking at a Hong Kong or New York listing.
The 10-year-old company saw its total revenue grow by 70 percent year on year to around $58 billion in 2021, Reuters has reported, slower growth than a year earlier as China tightens its regulation of big tech companies.
In 2020, the company's total revenue grew by over 100 percent to $34.3 billion.
One of the world's largest private companies, ByteDance had a valuation of about $300 billion in trades earlier this year.
