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Goodwin
THREE EMBARCADERO CENTER
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Ms Mitzi Chang

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4157336017 mchang@goodwinlaw.com

Position

Partner / Co-Chair Digital Currency & Blockchain, Fintech

Career

Mitzi Chang is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences group and serves as co-chair of its FinTech practice and Digital Currency & Blockchain practice. She focuses her practice on corporate and securities law, representing public and private companies, venture capital and private equity firms, and investment banks in capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, SEC reporting, and other general corporate and securities matters. Mitzi advises companies through every stage of the corporate life cycle – from initial formation and financing through successful initial public offering or acquisition. Mitzi also advises fintech, blockchain and digital asset companies, investors and network participants with respect to digital asset transactions and platforms, blockchain technology matters (including establishing new blockchains and nodes), decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and related securities law and regulatory matters, including representing clients in their discussions with the SEC’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub). Prior to joining Goodwin, Mitzi spent three years as in-house legal counsel at a Nasdaq-listed public technology company in San Francisco.

Mitzi currently serves as the Hiring Partner for Northern California and previously served on the firm’s Attorney Review Committee for associates, its Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity and on the hiring committee for Goodwin’s San Francisco office.

Education

J.D., 2002 Georgetown University Law Center / B.A., 1999 University of California, Berkeley (magna cum laude)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Fintech

Goodwin has a strong focus on fintech, blockchain and digital currencies, with a comprehensive offering that includes transactional, regulatory and litigation advice. Clients consider the firm ‘extremely adept at working with the fintech startup world‘ and is able to ‘distil complex regulations into tangible actions‘. This extends to the crypto space, where it has  ‘the rare ability to act as the generalist corporate counsel as well as to advise on all regulatory matters‘. The firm is also seeing a growing amount of insurtech and metaverse-related work. Lead partners include Mitzi Chang  who co-chairs the fintech group with Scott Joachim  in Silicon Valley, and the ‘always positive and helpful‘ Mike Whalen  in Washington DC. Other key partners on the digital currency and blockchain side include Grant Fondo  (Silicon Valley) and Karen Ubell, who is ‘among the most experienced, thoughtful, and versatile cryptocurrency lawyers in the nation‘. DC-based counsel Juliana Gerrick is ‘consistently able to distill complex and proprietary processes‘. In Boston, Kimberly Monty Holzel holds the distinction of having previously worked at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. All partners based in San Francisco unless otherwise stated.

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