Samuel Chang

Sam Chang’s practice focuses on cross-border regulatory and enforcement matters, including those relating to economic sanctions, export controls, CFIUS, and global foreign direct investment. Sam has represented leading companies, sovereign and state-owned entities, and individuals in complex regulatory and enforcement matters before OFAC, CFIUS, the Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Departments of Justice and State, SEC, and FINRA, as well as sensitive internal investigations. His practice spans various industries in all stages of the corporate life cycle, including matters with strategic advisory, compliance, transactional, enforcement, and remediation considerations.

Sam first joined the firm in 2015 as a summer associate. Prior to rejoining Cleary in 2018, he clerked for Judge Hisashi Owada at the International Court of Justice and Judge Harris L Hartz at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Sam has also worked with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of the General Counsel for International Affairs and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser.

J.D., Harvard Law School, Laylin Prize (2016); A.B., Harvard College.

Member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars.