Wena Poon
Attorney
Location / Bay Area
Phone / (415) 963-4034
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Admissions /
State Bar of California
State Bar of New York
Wena Poon is a Partner of VLP and a corporate/M&A and licensing attorney. For ten years Wena has built a broad, interdisciplinary transactional practice connecting investors and companies around the world. She is equally comfortable working with a small startup in Silicon Valley, or with the country's leading public companies and investment banks. Her industry experience includes advising clients from diverse sectors such as software development, videogaming, wireless, cleantech, commercial real estate, retail and manufacturing, technology, energy, media and telecommunications. She has advised both private and public companies on cross border M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, technology licensing and distribution, private equity, venture capital, finance transactions, 144A/Reg S global equity and debt offerings and European and Asian listings.
A native of Singapore, Wena has worked in the offices of some of the world's largest firms, in New York, California, Paris and Hong Kong. Her experience allows her to bridge legal cultures in US, Asia and Europe and explain legal solutions clearly and effectively to international clients.
Wena graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1995 and received a JD from Harvard Law School in 1998, where she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Harvard International Law Review. She has worked as a US lawyer for Linklaters, a "Magic Circle" London firm, and Reed Smith LLP. In 2009, Wena was selected to serve as an Ambassador to the American Bar Association's Business Law Section. She is admitted in the California and New York State Bars.
While practicing law full time, Wena is also an established author with a significant body of published and reviewed books. Her fiction has been listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in Ireland, the Willesden Short Story Prize in England, and the Singapore Literature Prize.