David Hsia

About David Hsia

Experienced corporate & securities attorney, working with hedge funds and fund formation,…

Experience

1. Partner

   Tjong & Hsia Llp

   Jan 2011 — Present

   Your outside general counsel: offering expertise in securities, m&a, contracts, hedge funds, LLCs, fund formation, investments, deal execution and cross-border/international experience. I have 24+ years of experience in representing a broad range of clients (including int\'l clients, high-net worth individuals and large publicly traded companies), industries and transactions and work in the areas of securities, m&a, hedge funds, fund formation, corporate governance, joint ventures, vc/private equity and start-ups. Soup-to-nuts: forming companies, negotiating and drafting simple or complex agreements, making investments, advising on plain vanilla or unusual transactions. Example of a few clients/recent engagements: negotiating consulting and severance agreements for a digital media professional, negotiating a stockholders agreement and related matters for a fintech startup, drafting licensing agreements for an ETF ratings firm, acting as outside counsel for a fashion consulting firm, advising an emerging portfolio manager of specialized oil contracts in negotiating Asia-based anchor investor, representing hedge/private equity funds in forming funds and regulatory/securities matters, advising a Mexico City-based fund in forming a US special purpose entity for early stage start-up investments, representing a strategic investor in an investment in a robotics company, assisting an investor consortium in launching a restaurant in Hawaii, helping a director of a public company seeking an exit from the board, advising a library database software company engaging in an m&a transaction, assisting a client in joining the C-suite of a cryptocurrency firm; negotiating on behalf of a key employee departing from a private equity fund, representing a luxury stationary/paper goods company in a proposed hybrid equity/debt financing, assisting a financial software firm in a joint venture transaction, and helping form and structure a Facebook-based video game start-up.

Skills

• Capital Markets
• Private Placements
• Start-Ups
• Venture Capital
• Litigation
• Finance
• Legal Writing
• Alternative Investments
• Entrepreneurship
• Restructuring
• Fund Formation
• Emerging Markets
• Due Diligence
• Hedge Funds
• Structured Finance
• Legal Advice
• Corporate Finance
• Asset Management
• Licensing
• Mergers
• Securities
• Mutual Funds
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Strategy
• Contract Negotiation
• Joint Ventures
• Corporate Law
• Private Equity
• Cross-Border Transactions
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Development
• International Law
• Real Estate
• Equities
• Investment Banking
• Ipo
• Securities Law
• Legal Research
• Securities Regulation
• Investments