| Practice Area: | Corporate, Trademark | |
| Bar Membership: | California, 2002 | |
| Education: | J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, 2002 | |
| Master of Laws, Indiana University School of Law, 1997 | ||
| Bachelor of Laws, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1992 | ||
| Language: | Fluent in Mandarin and Taiwanese | |
| Ms. Yang joined Pacific Law Group LLP in 2003, worked as an associate from 2004 to 2007, and is currently an Of Counsel in the firm's corporate department. The clients Ms. Yang worked with encompass a wide variety of industries including software, hardware, semiconductor, wireless companies, and businesses in traditional industries. Her specialties include entity formation (domestic and off-shore), venture capital and angel financing, contracts and licensing, and merger acquisitions. Ms. Yang often advises clients on shareholder matters, employment issues, founder disputes, and various legal issues clients encounter in their daily operations. | ||
| Ms. Yang graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law, summa cum laude, in 2002, and was an articles editor for the Computer & High Tech Law Journal. Her case note on copyright law published in the Journal was cited by the United States district court in Traicoff v. Digital Media in 2006. Ms. Yang also has an LLM degree from Indiana University School of Law and obtained her bachelor of laws degree from National Taiwan University in Taiwan. | ||
| Ms. Yang is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice in the California state courts. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. | ||
| Representative Transactions: | ||
| Ms. Yang has extensive experience in merger acquisitions with transaction sizes in the millions. The companies she negotiated with include Marvell, LSI Logic, California Micro Devices, Intel, and other public and private companies. She is also experienced in financing and technology transactions. | ||
| * Represented a semiconductor company in a merger transaction and negotiated merger agreements with the public company buyer. Closed the transaction at around $14 million with earn-outs. | ||
| * Represented a foreign company in a $32 million transaction purchasing a wafer factory from a public semiconductor company. | ||
| * Represented a technology company in an $18 million merger transaction. | ||
| * Advised a RFID technology company in licensing and software development transactions with China Mobile and other foreign companies. | ||
| * Counseled a software company in licensing and services agreements with Sprint and other companies in the US and Europe. | ||
| * Negotiated licensing agreements on behalf of a semiconductor company with Ericsson and other companies. | ||
| * Represented a VoIP company in several rounds of financings totaled around $40 million. | ||
| * Represented angel investors in financing transactions and conducted due diligence in start-up companies. | ||
| * Handled many financings for emerging technology companies with deal sizes ranging from $100,000 to $20 million, including seed rounds and venture capital rounds. | ||
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