Overview
Joanna Jung-Erh Lin focuses her practice on corporate, securities and transactional matters. Along with many types of transactions, she handles domestic and cross-border venture financing, mergers and acquisitions for public and private companies, and complex transition services agreements. She also has experience with capital markets transactions, having represented US and international issuers, investment banks and investors in a wide range of securities offerings, including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on offerings and private placements of equity securities. Joanna also regularly counsels clients on matters ranging from corporate governance to US Securities and Exchange Commission periodic reporting requirements and other general corporate matters.
Joanna also represents clients in technology transactions, commercial contract and outsourcing transactions, including services agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology licensing, cloud-computing transactions and strategic alliances.
Joanna represents clients from a broad array of industries, including companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. She provides pro bono services for various nonprofit organizations, including representing children in need of immigration-related legal counsel.
Results
- Represented a Chinese technology company in connection with its outbound investments in the United States
- Represented a public US company and its strategic acquisitions in the electronic medical records (EMR) space
- Represented a private Swiss software company in connection with its acquisition of a private US company
- Represented a public company providing cloud-based solutions for proactive customer communications in a public biotechnology company in connection with its acquisition of a public biopharmaceutical company
- Represented a private US geographic solutions company in its acquisitions by a public multinational communications and information technology corporation
- Represented a private Swiss speech software technology company in connection with its acquisition by a public US computer software technology corporation
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in America, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024-2025
- Thomson Reuters, Stand-out Lawyer – independently rated lawyers, 2024
- Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A – Up and Coming, 2023-2024
- Legal 500 US, Recommended, 2022, 2024
- IFLR1000, M&A, 2022-2023
- Euromoney, Americas Women in Business Law Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year, 2022
- Texas Lawyer, Most Effective Dealmaker, 2022
- The M&A Advisor, Emerging Leaders and International M&A Awards M&A Deal of the Year, 2019
Community
- Kids in Need of Defense, provides pro bono services
- Many Hopes, Boston Chapter, regional board member
Credentials
Education
Boston College Law School, JD, 2008
University of California – Irvine, BA, cum laude, 2004
Admissions
Texas
Massachusetts
