Paul Lin
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Intellectual Property
- Regulatory
- International Trade
- Real Estate
- National Security
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Semiconductors
- Consumer Protection
- Focuses on cross-border corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A)/takeovers and corporate finance.
- Acts as outside general counsel for clients in commercial disputes.
- Partner-in-charge of the firm’s Irvine office.
Paul primarily handles cross-border corporate transactions, M&A/takeovers, real estate transactions, regulatory and trade work, and corporate finance deals. In addition, he serves in the role of outside general counsel for many clients, coordinating litigation related to general commercial disputes, antitrust, intellectual property, class actions and other areas.
Paul’s clients range from multinational public corporations and Chinese, state-owned enterprises to privately held businesses and family offices. They span a broad range of industries, including technology, consumer products, infrastructure and city development, automotive, green energy and biotech.
Paul also represents a number of the world’s largest consumer electronics and technology companies, as well as digital television monitor manufacturers, in both corporate transactions and intellectual property litigation matters in the United States. He also advises various Asia-based clients in dispute resolution.
Paul is a frequent speaker on cross-border M&A and has participated in forums such as the Caijing Conference in Beijing and the UCLA U.S.-China Business Law Conference in Los Angeles. He serves as a board member on the Dean’s Board of Visitors and Business Advisory Council, University of California, Irvine School of Law. Paul is active in the Asian-American community and cross-border associations and is a member of the Committee of 100, an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that brings a Chinese-American perspective to issues concerning Asian-Americans and U.S.-China relations. He was also selected as one of the top “20 under 40” lawyers in California by Daily Journal, California’s largest legal news provider.
Corporate
- Led the team in advising Kingston Technology, one of the world’s largest independent manufacturers of memory products, as a member of a consortium led by Bain Capital, in the $18 billion purchase of Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC). Negotiated a favorable long-term memory supply agreement with TMC, as well as investment documents protecting Kingston’s interests in its participation in the consortium. The deal was the largest M&A transaction in Asia in 2018.
- Represented Foxconn Technology Group in its acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of SMART Technologies, a leading provider of collaboration solutions.
- Represented the U.S.-based, and world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products, in an agreement with a Taiwanese public company, to acquire certain assets of the Taiwanese company in a deal valued at approximately $200 million. The U.S. company simultaneously entered into a transaction pursuant to which the acquired company will provide foundry services to the buyer for a two-year period in a deal valued at approximately $380 million.
- Advising a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturing company in its acquisition of a 90 percent interest in a well-known international consumer electronics company and in certain manufacturing assets related to a television manufacturer from its parent company.
- Advising a Chinese company in its acquisition of a publicly listed display technology manufacturer and in a related tender offer.
EducationJ.D., McGeorge School of Law, University of The Pacific, 1997
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1994
J.D., McGeorge School of Law, University of The Pacific, 1997
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1994
Bar AdmissionsCalifornia
California
- IFLR1000 US, M&A, Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity, 2019.
- The Daily Journal, Top 20 under 40 Attorneys in California, 2007.
- Board member, Dean’s Board of Visitors, University of California, Irvine.
- Board member, Hoag Hospital Foundation.
- Member, Committee of 100.