Christopher E. La Chance
Founding Attorney
Location / Bay Area
Phone / (415) 963-4383
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Admissions /
State Bar of California
State Bar of Illinois
Christopher La Chance is a Founding Partner of VLP and a corporate and securities attorney based in San Francisco. He represents private and public companies and venture capital firms and other investors in a wide range of corporate and transactional matters, including entity formation, corporate governance, equity compensation, private equity and debt financings, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, public offerings, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and SEC reporting and disclosure.
Prior to joining VLP, Chris spent nearly two years as a Senior Attorney and Assistant General Counsel at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in San Francisco where he counseled the firm and its partners on a broad array of legal compliance and sensitive risk management issues. Chris also practiced for five years in the Corporate and Securities department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. in Palo Alto where he represented technology companies at all stages of development as well as the venture capital firms and investment banks that financed them. Chris was also formerly a member of the Supreme Court & Appellate Practice Group at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago.
Chris graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago with an A.B. in Philosophy. He attended Columbia Law School where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as Principal Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Chris served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert R. Beezer in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to the Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the State Bars of California and Illinois.