Aaron Goach - Co-Founder, Director, President and General Counsel
Aaron Goach, an American citizen and Hong Kong resident, is a co-founder and Director and the President and General Counsel of Magellan Solutions Outsourcing, Inc. Aaron has eight years’ experience living and working in the Asia-Pacific region.
Currently, Aaron is a Director in the Global Origination Counsel Group of the Office of General Counsel at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Employing some 60,000 professionals across 40 countries and territories, and controlling total client assets of almost U.S.$2 trillion, Merrill Lynch is the world's largest brokerage and one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives, a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide and, via its 55% stake in BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies, with more than U.S.$1 trillion in assets under management. Based in Hong Kong, he is a senior legal counsel to Merrill Lynch’s corporate finance and capital markets businesses in Greater China and six other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Aaron was a principal member of the Merrill Lynch team that executed the largest equity initial public offering in world history, the 2006 U.S.$22 billion simultaneous Hong Kong and Shanghai listings of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited.
Previously, Aaron was an associate with the United States Corporate Group in the Hong Kong office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a leading international law firm headquartered in London with 2,500 lawyers and 26 offices worldwide and approximately £1 billion in annual revenues. Aaron began his career as an associate in the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York and San Francisco with 800 lawyers and 14 offices worldwide and approximately U.S.$600 million in annual revenues. Aaron's experience in private practice includes representing some of the world's most prominent industrial companies and financial institutions in a broad range of international financial transactions, including exchange listings, public offerings, private placements, tender offers, takeovers, strategic investments and joint venture transactions.
Aaron is an attorney-at-law admitted to the New York Bar and registered with the Law Society of Hong Kong. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School - where he was an economics teaching fellow at Harvard College - and is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Muhlenberg College. Aaron is a native English speaker and has attained fluency in Spanish (Castilian), competence in Catalán and basic knowledge of Cantonese and Pilipino (Tagalog).
