Fred Chang
Partner
Lawyer
Seattle
USA
Fred Chang’s practice covers cross-border M&A, as well as financing - secured and unsecured - and investments over the full range of the capital structure of a company. He has represented companies in various industries, banks, insurance companies, private equity funds, and hedge funds, principally in their buy-side transactions.
He has handled cross-border transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers of public companies, street sales and other privately negotiated acquisitions, strategic and cornerstone investments, joint ventures, project finance, trade finance, leveraged lease financing, licensing, securitization and other structured financings, and derivatives. These transactions involved many states in the US, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, Australia, England, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.
Mr. Chang has also handled investigative, compliance, and contentious matters involving corporate governance, internal controls, transfer pricing, derivatives and market manipulation in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Korea. He has spent nearly ten years - also serving as general counsel and head of compliance for Deutsche Bank in Asia - working for investment banks and ISDA.
Outside of his practice, Mr. Chang is an avid ultra-marathon runner. He is also a cellist and was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra 1978-1980.
- Leading Lawyer, IFLR1000 (Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC), 2019
- Band 1 Banking/Finance, Chambers and Partners Asia, 2007-2010, 2012
- Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year, M&A Advisor, 2013