Barry Chang
Biography
Barry Chang is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Palo Alto office and a member of the Firm’s Transactional Practice Group. Barry’s practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments. He has represented clients in a variety of industries, with a practice focus in the technology sector. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Barry served as corporate counsel for a San Francisco fintech company where he advised on all corporate development initiatives. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Barry was an analyst in Goldman Sachs’ fixed income group.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised Broadcom in its USD 37 billion sale to Avago Technologies
- Advised SolarCity in its USD 2.6 billion sale to Tesla Motors
- Advised CapitalG in its USD 1 billion investment in Lyft's Series H preferred stock financing
- Advised Liberty Mutual in its USD 3.3 billion sale of its group benefits, life and annuity businesses to Lincoln Financial and Progressive Life
- Advised Crunchyroll in its USD 600 million sale to Otter Media
- Advised Xperi in its USD 850 million acquisition of DTS
- Advised RPX in its USD 550 million sale to DTS
- Advised Snowflake on its acquisitions of Streamlit and Applica
- Advised Affirm on its USD 265 million acquisition of PayBright, and its USD 300 million acquisition of Returnly
- Advised Instacart on its USD 350 million acquisition of Caper.ai
- Advised Coinbase on numerous strategic transactions
- Advised Cadence Design Systems on its acquisitions of Numeca International, Pointwise and numerous other strategic transactions
- Advised Block on numerous strategic transactions
- Advised SAP on its USD 240 million sale of its Digital Interconnect business to Sinch AB
- Advised Zynga on its acquisition of Echtra Games
- Advised Uniphore on its acquisition of Jacada
*includes matters before joining Baker McKenzie.
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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