Lawrence Chu

Practice Areas

Larry Chu is a senior advisor to Goodwin. He previously was a senior partner in our Technology and M&A/Corporate Governance practices and served as the co-chair of the firm’s Global M&A Group. He has represented domestic and non-US public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, 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 has represented 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. Larry was also a member of the firm’s Fintech, Israel, and Cannabis practices.

Larry'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.

Personal

JD/LLB, 1998

Osgoode Hall Law School

BA, 1995

University of Western Ontario