About Richard HSU

Richard C. HSU is a Managing Director at Major Lindsey & Africa (MLA).  Richard is also the host and producer of a 2-time ABA award winning podcast HSU untied and author of the LMA award winning blog HSU Tube.

Prior to joining MLA, Richard was a Partner and Global Head of the IP Transactions Practice as well as Co-Chair of the Privacy & Data Protection practice at Shearman & Sterling. He was also Co-Head of the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group and was a CIPP/US/E, CIPM and CIPT Privacy Specialist.

Before joining Shearman & Sterling, he was a partner at King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office and former Managing Partner and Practice Group Leader at Townsend LLP, where he was part of the management team that led the merger with Kilpatrick Stockton to form Kilpatrick Townsend in 2010. Prior to joining Townsend, Richard was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group (founded by Craig Johnson from Wilson Sonsini) and the former General Counsel at Cyrano Sciences, Inc. (acquired by Smiths Detection), a venture-backed company founded by Caltech Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs.