Cynthia Zhenhua Wu (吴振华) is co-founder and managing partner of Concord & Wisdom, APC. She represents businesses and families whose legal problems cross a border — goods held by U.S. Customs, duties that should be refunded, investments coming into the United States, tax questions that span two countries, and estates with heirs or assets abroad.
Why clients choose to work with her
She sees the tax question inside every problem. Ms. Wu holds an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida in addition to her J.D. from the University of Arizona. A customs settlement, a company structure, a move to the United States or an inheritance each carries tax consequences; she plans for them at the outset rather than after the fact.
She can take a matter all the way. She is admitted in California, New York, Texas, Florida and the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Court of International Trade. When an agency will not resolve a matter fairly, the case can continue in court without changing lawyers.
She understands both legal systems. Before coming to the United States, she earned a Juris Master in China and passed China’s National Judicial Examination (2012). Clients from China do not have to translate their situation twice: she understands the documents, family arrangements and business practices they bring, and how U.S. law will treat them.
She knows how decision-makers read a file. As a Staff Attorney with Florida’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, she worked first on civil matters and later on probate and guardianship. That court-side experience shapes every petition, protest and filing she prepares: accurate, complete, and organized for the reader who decides.
Her peers rely on her. She is the 2027 Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Tax Law Section (Vice Chair, 2026) and a 2026–2027 Vice Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Taxation Section. She has written for Los Angeles Lawyer on estate planning for nonresident aliens and has published and spoken on IEEPA tariff refunds after Learning Resources v. Trump, including to the Chinese American CPA Association and the LACBA Trusts and Estates Symposium.
She answers to you, personally. Clients work with her directly, in English or Mandarin. She reads the notice herself, tells you plainly where you stand, and explains the options, risks, timing and fees before you decide.
Selected results
- 2026 — Obtained an order from the U.S. Court of International Trade directing CBP to reliquidate, without IEEPA duties, a client’s entries that had been liquidated for more than 80 days, so that the IEEPA duties paid on those entries are refunded (IEEPA refund, Phase 3).
- 2026 — Recovered seized merchandise valued at approximately US$900,000 through a petition for relief to CBP.
- 2025 — CBP detention matters led by Ms. Wu secured the release of more than US$10 million in detained merchandise (merchandise value, not a refund or damages award).
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
