Dean Fealk is a partner and chair of the Global Equity Practice at at DLA Piper. He advises leading multinational companies on a wide range of legal and strategic issues related to doing business overseas, including corporate, securities, regulatory, tax, labor, foreign exchange and data privacy. Dean has considerable experience in cross-border equity-based compensation programs and international employment matters in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. In 2010, he was named by The Daily Journal to its list of California's ""Top 20 Attorneys under 40."" On the transactional side, Dean has provided counsel on more than $20 billion in cross-border deals, among them mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and integrations.

Dean has served as a consultant to the World Bank on issues of regulatory reform and business climate and has taught as an adjunct professor or guest lecturer at the law schools of UC Berkeley, UC Hastings, Santa Clara University and Kyunghee University. While in law school, Dean was the first US citizen to clerk at the Constitutional Court of Korea. 

He served on the National Security Advisory Board of a leading presidential candidate in 2007 and 2008. He currently serves on the advisory group to the California Economic Strategy Panel, the Finance Council of the California Democratic Party and the Executive Committee for International Law of the State Bar of California.  He is also a graduate of the 2009-2010 class of Leadership San Francisco and was selected in 2010 as a American Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund.

Dean received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where he was Executive Editor of the

Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Korea.