SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Silicon Legal Strategy today announced that associate Michelle Chern has joined the firm as an associate in its San Francisco office. Michelle represents emerging companies and investors in formation and startup matters, venture capital financings, mergers & acquisitions, and in day-to-day corporate matters.
Prior to joining SLS, Michelle was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco, where she advised startups, late-stage private companies, and venture capital investors. Before her time at Latham & Watkins, Michelle was an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in its New York office, where she advised public and private companies and private equity investors on M&A and capital markets transactions.
Michelle is licensed to practice law in California and New York. She received her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was a J.D. Scholar in the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business. Michelle received a B.A. in Political Science with Highest Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
“Silicon Legal has established itself in the startup ecosystem as an elite team deploying an innovative and business-minded outlook to forge deep relationships with founders and investors,” said Chern. “I’m excited to join their diverse team and work with their top-notch clients.”
“Michelle’s experience at her prior firms and her strong business acumen align perfectly with our client-centric and entrepreneurial approach,” noted Andre Gharakhanian, Managing Partner of Silicon Legal Strategy. “Silicon Legal continues to attract top-tier talent, and we are thrilled to welcome Michelle to our growing team.”
About Silicon Legal Strategy
Silicon Legal Strategy is the premier boutique law firm providing targeted, bottom-line-oriented advice to technology startups, innovative entrepreneurs and seasoned investors. Trained at the top firms in Silicon Valley, our attorneys and staff are incredibly passionate about technology and have extensive experience representing early stage companies and investors. We are a known quantity in Silicon Valley, and work with or sit across the table from every major law firm in the area. Perhaps most importantly, we ourselves are entrepreneurs. We truly understand the challenges of a startup — like building and motivating a team, creating repeatable processes to ensure continued customer satisfaction at scale and dealing with infrastructure issues. We face these challenges every day — and as a result, are able to deliver more relevant, bottom-line-oriented advice. Put simply, we actually “get” what entrepreneurs are going through.
