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Mr Andrew Wong

Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Andrew S. Wong represents leading international and domestic companies in the financial, technology, oil and gas, food and beverage, manufacturing and transportation industries in a variety of complex commercial litigation and employment law matters. He focuses his practice on general commercial litigation, cross-border litigation and arbitration, product liability, business torts, trade secrets and unfair trade practices disputes, as well as employment discrimination matters. He counsels numerous overseas clients in Asia on business strategy issues and litigation risk analysis.
Mr. Wong maintains an active pro bono practice and is also active in his local community as an elected School Board member of the Pomona Unified School District. Mr. Wong has also served on numerous non-profit boards and has been a gubernatorial appointee to two state-wide California commissions. Mr. Wong is chair of the firm-wide Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Wong was a litigation partner at another large international law firm.
Memberships
- Governing Board, Pomona Unified School District
- Former Commissioner, California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs
- Former Commissioner, Dental Hygiene Committee of California
- Board of Advisors, Diamond Bar Community Foundation
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1995, summa cum laude
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1998
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)