As the General Counsel of Checkout.com, Da-Wai leads a global team of lawyers and other professionals that supports the business across legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. Previously, Da-Wai was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Amazon.com, where over the course of 10+ years he led the Corporate and M&A legal team, as well as the International Consumer legal team with coverage over Mexico and all of Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Middle East and Africa. Earlier in his career, Da-Wai was a M&A lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and Paul Weiss.
Da-Wai received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and his B.A. from Northwestern University. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Morris Sheppard Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Honorable Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
As a native Texan, Da-Wai is always super excited whenever he can find chicken fried steak, breakfast tacos, and Bluebell ice cream. He's also a big fan of the McRib.