Ginny Wilmerding
Partner
She/Her
Life at FGS Global
Counsels senior executives and boards on transactions and financial communications, crisis and litigation, geopolitics including U.S.-China issues, and media and stakeholder engagement. Manage global teams on a variety of cross-border mandates; started and lead the Global China Bridge group.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Partner at Brunswick Group 2010-2020 (based in Hong Kong); moved to FGS in 2020. Advised Asian tech companies and private equity clients on capital markets transactions and ESG strategy. Previous in-house stints with American and Asian multinationals and PE-backed startups in U.S.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Often found on long-haul flights, skilled at beating jetlag. Loves hiking, gardening and outdoor pursuits. Passionate about bridging gaps between nations and cultures through education and business.
Ginny Wilmerding is a Partner in FGS Global's New York office, advising on transactions and financial communications, critical issues and crises, geopolitics, and corporate reputation. Areas of focus include complex cross-border transactions and regulatory matters, shareholder activism, strategy reviews and spinoffs, board governance advisory, and all kinds of stakeholder engagement including media and investors. Ginny previously spent 19 years working in Asia and leads our cross-practice, cross-region Global China Bridge group. She is active in Tech and Private Equity sector teams, as well as our Board Advisory Group. Prior to joining FGS Global, she was a Partner at Brunswick Group, where she helped drive dramatic growth in the Asia business from 2010 to 2020. Other corporate experience includes business development roles for Hutchison Whampoa and Lucent Technologies and heading corporate affairs for American PE-backed Internet services companies.
Notable past engagements include cross-border transaction and critical issues advice to Lenovo; defending Sinovac in activism and litigation; cross-border transaction and crisis advice for Syngenta and SHEIN; retained advisory to U.S. and Asian PE/VC firms; crisis advice to H&M, Volkswagen and ABB; Alibaba Group’s $25B IPO on NYSE and Ant Group’s $10B private placement; multiple M&A transactions for Bain Capital.
Ginny is an independent director on the board of Techtronic Industries, parent of Milwaukee Tool (HKSE:0669). She was a Board Trustee of Princeton in Asia for 24 years. In 2022, Ms Wilmerding earned the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing and in 2021, she earned the Financial Times Level 7 Non-Executive Director Diploma. She is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the U.S. China Business Council. Ms Wilmerding published a business advice book for women in 2006 (John Wiley & Sons).
Ginny holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and speaks and reads Chinese.