Vania Chaker
Corporate Finance Attorney with focus in Technology and Biotech
Vania Mia Chaker graduated from Stanford University with honors and with distinction. Ms. Chaker holds a juris doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. While in law school, she served as president of the Federalist Society and as a senior editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy at Harvard Law School. She holds dual M.B.A. degrees from Columbia Business School and the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Ms. Chaker clerked in the federal judiciary as an elbow clerk to the Hon. Rudi M. Brewster in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and the Hon. Mitchel R. Goldberg in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Ms. Chaker has been associated with the global law firms of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Baker & McKenzie, and Fox Rothschild, serving in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, and Insolvency practice areas of these firms.
Ms. Chaker has also served as a Koch Fellow; worked for the United States Congress for the Hon. C. Christopher Cox and for the House Republican Policy Committee; and served as a Research Assistant at the Hoover Institution. She remains active in political, professional, and charitable activities.
- California
- French: Spoken, Written
- University of California - Berkeley
- J.D. | Law
- Stanford University
- B.A. | Concentration in Public Policy
- Honors: Graduation honors and Graduation with distinction.
- Columbia University
- MBA | Focus on entrepreneurship
- University of California - Berkeley
- MBA | Focus on entrepreneurship
- State Bar of California  # 208325
- Member
- Current
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- University of Florida Levin College of Law Journal of Technology Law & Policy
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- University of Florida Levin College of Law Journal of Technology Law & Policy