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Larry Chu is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology Companies and M&A/Corporate Governance practices, and leads the firm’s Technology M&A practice on the West Coast. He represents domestic and non-U.S.

Public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, dispositions 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. Chu is also a member of the firm’s FinTech, Israel and Cannabis practices.

Chu'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. He has been recognized as a leading attorney in his field by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 and has also been included on the Global M&A Network's list of 'Top 50 North American M&A Lawyers.”. Global M&A Network has named Mr. Chu one of North America’s top 50 M&A lawyers and he has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, he has been selected for inclusion in the 2012 through 2018 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers and was named to its “Rising Stars” list. He is also recognized in the 2013 through 2018 editions of The Legal 500 U.S. in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Technology Transactions. Chu was honored as one of five finalists in the Transatlantic Corporate Dealmaker (US) category at The American Lawyer’s new Transatlantic Legal Awards and named as one of six finalists in the Legal Advisor of the Year category at the 13 th Annual M&A Advisor Awards.

Chu has authored several articles and frequently speaks at/participates on various M&A panels and conferences. Most recently: • Author, “Who’s Got Your Back?

Highlighted works • This classic of Soviet Socialist Realist cinema is based on Dmitrii Furmanov’s 1923 novel, itself inspired by a famous Red commander of the Russian Civil War. • The first in the ‘Maksim trilogy’ is a landmark of Soviet Socialist Realism directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, who made some of the most original Soviet films of the 1920s. • The final part of the trilogy about the young Bolshevik activist Maxim sees him appointed Commissar of the National Bank following the Russian Revolution. • The second film in a trilogy about a young Bolshevik activist is set in 1914, on the eve of World War I. • In Friedrich Ermler’s drama a husband and wife are tragically driven apart when he decides not to give up everything for the collective farm.