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Goodwin
601 Marshall Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Position

Partner

Career

Larry Chu is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology  and M&A/Corporate Governance practices, and serves as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Global M&A Group. He represents domestic and non-US public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions in the technology, Internet, digital media and marketing, artificial intelligence, financial technology, e-commerce and hardware and software industries, and also represents clients in the consumer products, FMCG, beverage, apparel, telecommunications, industrial products and manufacturing, banking and financial services, and asset management sectors. In addition, he represents private equity funds in connection with the acquisition of, and investment in, certain public and private portfolio companies, as well as banking clients in connection with their roles as financial advisor and dealer/manager on M&A transactions. Larry is also a member of the firm’s FinTech, Israel, and Cannabis practices.

Larry’s transaction experience includes public and private mergers and acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, carve-out transactions, asset acquisitions and dispositions, recapitalizations, management buyouts and going-private transactions, joint venture arrangements, and strategic alliances and minority investments. He also has extensive experience with cross-border transactions and has helped a number of serial acquirors manage their buy-side M&A programs.

Education

J.D./LL.B, 1998 Osgoode Hall Law School B.A., 1995 University of Western Ontario

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)

Recognized for its prowess in the M&A space, Goodwin advises clients from the pharmaceutical, AI, fintech, and real estate industries on tender offers, divestitures and take-privates, and spin offs, in addition to acting on both the private and public side for mature clients. With experience in the regulatory, transactional, and antitrust elements of M&A, the group is collectively led by Boston-based Michael Kendall, who concentrates on corporate finance, private equity, and venture capital deals. Silicon Valley- based co-head Lawrence Chu is well-verse in handling global M&A for tech companies, while co-head Joshua Zachariah covers corporate governance and strategic M&A representations from the firm’s New York office. Also in Boston is Stuart Cable, who has ample experience in representing boards of directors in life sciences-focused M&A.