Maytak Chin is a strategic litigator with broad experience in dispute resolution and a trusted advisor to many corporate and public pension fund clients. Her practice focuses on complex litigation in the area of fiduciary duties, unfair competition and business torts, with an emphasis on contract disputes and trade secret cases involving advanced and emerging technologies. She has a proven track-record of winning cases and achieving client objectives in mediation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, at trial and on appeal. Maytak understands that legal strategy in dispute resolution has wide-ranging ramifications for a client’s business and therefore she collaborates with her clients on litigation strategy to balance risk and optimize gains favorable to their businesses.
For over half a decade, she has worked on several trial teams, representing clients in business litigation in areas ranging from breach of fiduciary duty, trade secrets misappropriation, shareholder and contract disputes, and professional negligence. She has extensive experience in early case assessments and resolutions, mediation, case management, all aspects of discovery and pre-trial motions, preparing cases for trial, and briefing cases on appeal. Maytak served as a core trial team member prosecuting a trade secrets misappropriation in a four week jury trial in Lumileds v. Elec-Tech International Co., Ltd., Santa Clara County Case No. 1-15-CV-278566, which resulted in a $66 million jury verdict and worldwide injunction in favor of her client.
In addition to her business and intellectual property litigation practice, Maytak also serves as fiduciary and litigation counsel, to several California public pension funds. She has represented boards of retirements in CCP 1094.5 proceedings regarding benefit eligibility determinations and in CCP 1085 writ proceedings involving constitutional fiduciary duty and statutory issues.
An outstanding firm citizen, Maytak served a two-year term as the firm’s co-chair of its Asian American Business Inclusion Group and has been on the firm’s the Summer Associate Hiring Committee for over five years. She also maintains a strong pro bono practice representing immigrant youth through Special Immigrant Juvenile Status proceedings and has received an award from Legal Services for Children for her outstanding pro bono work.
