PARTNER – CORPORATE TRANSACTIONAL GROUP

Public Company Practice

Los Angeles
fchen@prosperalaw.com
(424) 239-1902

Francis Chen is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Transactional Group focusing on Public Company Practice.  Francis has extensive experience advising issuers, underwriters and placement agents in public and private capital raising, including IPOs, follow-ons, secondaries and PIPEs.  He also counsels public companies regarding their reporting and continuing listing obligations, as well as general corporate governance matters.

Practice Highlights:

• Advised managing underwriter in connection with a private placement of preferred stock and the initial public offering of TFF Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: TFFP);
• Advised managing underwriter in connection with the initial public offering of Cue Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: CUE);
• Advises managing underwriter in connection with the initial public offering of Pulse Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLSE).

Prior to joining Prospera Law, Francis was an associate in the Asian Practice Group at Richardson & Patel LLP where he represented a number of Los Angeles-based private companies as outside general counsel.

Francis is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese.

Francis received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law with a concentration in corporate finance and his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in Psychology.  He is licensed to practice law in California and New York.