Practice Profile: Ting Chen focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and activism and takeover defense. Over the past year, she represented Avon in its $3.7 billion acquisition by Natura; the Ricketts family in connection with the pending $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade by Charles Schwab; Qualcomm in its settlement with Apple; and Pitney Bowes in the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort.

Leadership, Pro Bono and Civic Work: Ting is a partner liaison to Cravath’s Asian/Pacific Islander Affinity Group and is active in the Firm’s Women’s Initiative. She serves as co-chair of the Asian American Bar Association of New York’s Corporate Law Committee. Her pro bono work has included assisting Don Liu, the executive vice president and chief legal and risk officer of Target, in establishing the Don Liu Scholars Program, which provides scholarships to Asian law school students who will be future leaders in the profession.

Prior Experience:

Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 2006-2013.

Education:

J.D., Stanford Law School (2006)

A.B., Harvard University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (2003)

What advice would you give to young lawyers?

From the start of your career, make every effort to fully understand the “big picture” of each transaction or litigation matter you work on.  If you have a good sense of your client’s ultimate goals and how your individual work contributes to those goals, you will produce better, more thoughtful work product and you will also find the practice much more fulfilling.

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