Barry Chang
Biography
Barry Chang is an associate in Baker McKenzie’s Palo Alto office and a member of the Firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Barry’s practice focuses primarily on public and private company mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, strategic investments and other corporate transactions. He has represented clients in a variety of industries, including technology, private equity, financial services, food and retail. He most recently served as in-house corporate counsel for a leading San Francisco-based fintech company where he advised on all corporate development initiatives and strategic investments. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Barry was an analyst in Goldman Sachs’ fixed income sales and trading group, where he sold corporate bonds and credit derivatives.
Representative Legal Matters
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Advised Affirm on its acquisition of PayBright for approximately USD 265 million
- Advised Cadence Design Systems on its acquisition of NUMECA International
- Advised Cadence Design Systems on its acquisition of Pointwise
- Advised Zynga on its acquisition of Echtra Games
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Advised Takeda on the sale of its Buccolam® business to Neuraxpharm
- Advised SAP SE on the sale of its SAP Digital Interconnect business to Sinch AB for approximately USD 240 million
Prior to joining the Firm, Barry served as counsel to:
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Broadcom in its USD 37 billion sale to Avago (named as a member of the deal team receiving the 2016 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award for M&A)
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a special committee of the SolarCity board of directors in SolarCity’s USD 2.6 billion sale to Tesla Motors
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Square in its USD 410 million sale of its Caviar food ordering platform to DoorDash
- Liberty Mutual in its USD 3.3 billion sale of its group benefits, life and annuity businesses to Lincoln Financial and Progressive Life
Admissions
- California~United States
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (JD) (2014)
- University of California, Los Angeles (MBA) (2014)
- Stanford University (BS) (2007)
Languages
- English
- Mandarin
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