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Professional Background

Young Chang joined the Business Entities & Transactions Practice of McDonald Carano in 2025. Young has comprehensive experience representing private equity entities and privately held companies in complex equity and asset acquisitions and sales. He also has extensive experience representing issuers in private offerings of equity securities. Young’s background includes serving as a Judicial Intern for Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Salim R. Tabit.

Education and Certifications

  • J.D., Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, 2021
  • B.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2017

Bar Admissions

  • Nevada
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts

Representative Experience

Young’s experience representing private equity entities and privately held companies in equity and asset acquisitions and sales includes deals valued from $2 million to $200 million. He has worked on transactions involving equity rollover, debt and equity financing, and pre-closing corporate reorganizations. Young oversees and manages the pre-closing corporate reorganization process, due diligence process, and closing process. He also coordinates with clients’ internal legal debt financing teams to manage deadlines and meet deal targets.

Young has thorough experience drafting documents related to equity and asset acquisitions and sales, including Stock, Membership Interest, Asset Purchase Agreements, and ancillary documents including Consulting Agreements, Officer’s Certificates, Written Consents, Assignment and Assumption Agreements, Non-Competition Agreements, and Promissory Notes. He also drafts documents related to equity rollovers and pre-closing corporate reorganizations, including Contribution and Exchange Agreements, Cross Purchase Agreements, Convertible Promissory Notes, and Redemption Agreements. Young’s experience drafting due diligence documents includes Due Diligence Request Lists, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Clean Team Agreements, Diligence Trackers, Key Diligence Issues Memoranda, and Disclosure Schedules.

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Asian Bar Association of Nevada
  • Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

News

Young Chang Joins McDonald Carano

McDonald Carano proudly announces that Young Chang has joined our Las Vegas office. Young is a member of the Business Entities & Transactions Practice, Real Estate & Land Use Practice,…