EMIL CHANG

(408) 988-9898x111
emil@vpaclaw.com

Mr. Chang brings with him over fifteen years of legal expertise and management experience with high-technology companies.  In particular, Mr. Chang specializes in serving Silicon Valley and Asian high-technology clients, providing services in the areas of general corporate matters, venture financing, merger/acquisition, intellectual property matters, patent prosecution, and licensing.

During the first part of his career, Mr. Chang practiced exclusively in the intellectual property areas -- in particular: patent prosecution, patent infringement opinions, and litigation of intellectual property matters.  He was lastly with the law firm of Oppenheimer, Wolfe & Donnelly, and was with the same practice group for over six years.

During the second part of his career, Mr. Chang served as general counsel and held management positions with a number of Silicon Valley startups.  For example, Mr. Chang served as General Counsel for Holley Communications Group, Inc., a mobile phone design house based in the United States with its parent in China.  He was responsible for its overall legal matters, including its global mobile phone licensing strategy and its capitalization strategy with respect to its foreign parent and subsidiaries.

Mr. Chang was Director of Operations and General Counsel for Altima Semiconductors, Inc., a provider of network semiconductors.  Altima was later sold to Broadcom for over $550 million dollars.  Mr. Chang also served as General Counsel for seeUthere Technologies, Inc., an event planning ASP, where he participated in its fundraising strategy and execution, licensing strategy and execution, and merger activities.

Mr. Chang was also a co-founder of WebEver, Inc., an Internet infrastructure software company.  During his tenure, he managed product deployment and product support, legal, finance, HR, and system administration and played a role in fundraising and product marketing.

Currently, Mr. Chang is the managing attorney of the firm, working with a number of Silicon Valley and cross Pacific venture capital firms and start-ups. His unique experiences allows him to structure complex international corporate structures and transactions, including Cayman Islands and BVI corporate structures, anti-inversion (restructuring U.S. corporations to be offshore corporate holding structures in compliance with Internal Revenue Code), restructuring of a U.S. corporation for going public in China, cross-border licensing, and developing international IP strategies.

Mr. Chang has published a number of articles on various legal and startup issues and has been a speaker on various intellectual property and corporate law issues.

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California, 1993
State Bar of Washington, 1993
Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1993

Education

Juris Doctor, University of California, Hastings
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Washington
B.A. in Economics, University of Washington