Edward S.Chang

Edward Chang represents clients in connection with high-profile and sophisticated data breach, ransomware, and other cybersecurity events. In his nearly 20 years of practice, Ed has also represented institutional clients in an array of complex high-stakes litigation matters, with an emphasis on cybersecurity, privacy, B2B (business-to-business), and consumer issues. He has served as lead counsel in hundreds of individual, class/mass actions, complicated business disputes, and regulatory investigations, including bet-the-company matters. Ed also provides day-to-day advice to clients on their most sensitive cybersecurity and privacy needs, including on compliance and M&A deal matters.

Ed is currently defending dozens of individual and nationwide mass/class action, data breach/privacy, and related business disputes across the country. Significant engagements include representing a large fast-food chain in a data breach class action, obtaining an individual/non-class settlement after years of litigation; a major automaker in multiple privacy class/representative actions, obtaining complete dismissals; an online retailer in a nationwide technology class action, precluding all class claims; a prominent homebuilder in a series of nationwide product defect class actions covering millions of homes, defeating class certification; a medical device manufacturer in numerous class actions, foreclosing class claims; a restaurant chain in a complicated business dispute, obtaining a favorable appellate opinion on a novel jurisdictional question unanswered by the California Supreme Court for 100 years; a background screening company in class cases alleging deceptive marketing practices, obtaining complete dismissals; and a telecommunications company in a bellwether class action, obtaining a favorable appellate opinion limiting standing. Ed also represents corporations in cross-border business/fraud disputes, including in a recent action where he obtained an eight-figure U.S. judgment.