Gregory Chin

focuses his practice on representing emerging growth industries, including innovative media, software, cannabis, energy and sustainability, life sciences and digital health, in complex transactional and general corporate matters. Mr. Chin also represents venture capital firms and investment banks that support emerging growth companies. He has represented public and private targets and acquirers in mergers and acquisitions, issuers and investors in venture capital financings, and issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings.

Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Chin worked in business development and marketing for an emerging growth company in Japan, and wrote a column in Japanese about Silicon Valley news.

Mr. Chin is a 1999 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a graduate, with distinction in the major, of Yale College. He is fluent in Japanese.

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Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2020-present
•Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC
- Partner, 2017-2020
•Flatiron Law Group
- Partner, 2016-2017
•Ballantine Valley Media Group
- President, General Counsel and Partner, 2015-2016
•Jones Day
- Partner, 2012-2015
•Latham & Watkins LLP
- Partner, 2004-2012
•Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC
- Senior Associate, 1999-2004
•Paltek Corporation
- Business Development, 1994-1996

Honors and Awards

•Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2019 and 2020

•Listed in The Legal 500 USA, 2014-2015

•Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2013

Civic and Charitable Activities

•Jewish Federation Fellowship

•Hillel at Stanford University
- Member and Board of Directors, 2004-2011
•Moldaw Residences (Jewish senior living facility in Palo Alto, California)
- Audit Committee, 2012-2014

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Co-author, “Regulation FD in the Twitter Age,” The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, November 6, 2013

•Quoted, “Silver Spring Networks Looks to Tap ‘Smart Grid’” Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2013

•Quoted, “Is Washington the New Wall Street for Cleantech,” New York Times, June 22, 2009

•Quoted, “Cleantech Squeezed by Drop in Financing,” New York Times, May 3, 2009

•Co-author, “Stimulus Potential for Cleantech,” Law360, April 2, 2009

•Qupted, “Clean-Tech Venture Financing Plunges,” New York Times, April 1, 2009

•Quoted, “ If Green Jobs are So Hot, Where are They? ” gigaom.com, February 9, 2009

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Moderator, “Latest Innovations in A.I. and Health Tech,” Idea-to-IPO, April 17, 2018

•Co-creator, “MintzEdge Perspective” podcast series “From the Edge” about startup economy, 2017

•Moderator, “Investors and Entrepreneurs: What Makes a Great Deal,” Personalized Medicine World Conference, January 28, 2013

•Panelist, “The Legal Minefield: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Cleantech Industry,” University of California, Hastings College of the Law’s Third Annual Cleantech Roundtable, April 13, 2012