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Mr. Chan is co-leader of the China practice and managing partner of our Shanghai office. He is a seasoned corporate lawyer with over a decade of experience representing sellers, strategic buyers, private equity funds, venture funds, portfolio companies, issuers, underwriters, financial advisors, lenders and trustees in a variety of sophisticated transactions.
Mr. Chan has worked on over $41 billion of private equity, venture capital, capital markets, mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions including stock-for-stock mergers, cash mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases, tender offers, joint ventures, strategic alliances and divestitures. The private equity and venture capital financings he has executed range from seed capital rounds to expansion and late stage investments. He has also been involved in a number of initial public offerings of leading companies in the U.S.
Mr. Chan frequently speaks at leading private equity and venture capital conferences in China and the U.S. Mr. Chan¡¯s views on a variety of private equity and venture capital topics have been quoted or published in a number of leading journals and publications, including Asia M&A, FinanceAsia, The Deal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Caijing and Top Capital. In addition, Mr. Chan often lectures at the business and law faculties of leading universities, such as Stanford, UCLA, NUS, NYU, Fudan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Mr. Chan was a judicial intern to the Honorable Royce C. Lambert, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in 1993. Over the years Mr. Chan has participated in a number of committees of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, including Commercial Financial Services, Corporate Compliance, Developments in Business Financing, Negotiated Acquisitions, Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees, and Venture Capital & Private Equity.