Practice
Richard Hsu is a technology transactions and intellectual property partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group based in the firm’s Silicon Valley (Palo Alto) office. Mr. Hsu advises companies on corporate, licensing and associated business and intellectual property issues. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating corporate and technology transactions, including acquisitions, asset purchase, licensing, development and other partnering agreements for the life science, semiconductor, medical device, electronics/software and financial services industries. He also has considerable experience in intellectual property asset management and licensing, having assisted numerous clients to develop and implement strategies to acquire, protect, enforce, license and commercialize various forms of intellectual property.

Before joining Shearman, he was a partner at King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office in 2011 and co-Managing Partner and Practice Group Leader at Townsend LLP (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton) from 2003 until 2010. Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Hsu was a senior attorney at Venture Law Group (founded by Craig Johnson from Wilson Sonsini), where he represented more than 100 venture-backed startup technology companies. Mr. Hsu was also former General Counsel at Cyrano Sciences, Inc. (acquired by Smiths Detection), a venture-backed company founded by Caltech Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, where his pivotal management role was featured on television station KWHY and in the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

• Symphony Technology Group (First Advantage) on acquisition of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Unit
• NASDAQ OMX on acquisition of Thompson Reuter’s Investor Relations, Public Relations and Multimedia Solutions Business
• Cessna on Joint Venture Contracts with CAIGA Subsidiaries
• SafeNet on sale of Government Solutions Business to Raytheon
• Ethical Oncology Science on License Agreement with Servier
• Quadramed on sale to Nuance Communications
• Ramtron International on sale to Cypress Semiconductor
• Francisco Partners in acquisition of Plex Systems, Inc.
• VMWare in acquisition of Dynamic Ops, Inc.
• JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley in Broadcom’s $500M offering

• Merced Systems in sale to NICE Systems
• Summit Microelectronics, Inc. in sale to Qualcomm Corporation

• Columbia Law School Kernochan Foundation Advisory Board Member
• QB3 (California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences) Advisory Board Member
• Law Pivot Founding Advisory Board Member
• Institute for Int’l Film Financing Founding Advisory Board Member
• Executive Impact Group Advisory Board Member
• California State Bar IP Section Executive Committee (‘04-‘07)

Speaking Engagements and Publications

• “Market for Tech Transactions for Lawyers is Heating Up,” The Recorder (2012)
• One Page Blog (http://www.hsutube.com/)
• Practicing Law Institute (PLI) Faculty
• Stanford Director’s College Faculty
• “Vioxx Scare is Symptom of Firm’s Narrow Focus on Blockbusters,” SF Daily Journal (2004)
• “Keep a Strong Patent System,” New York Times (1998)
• “No Money for Research? Try Investing,” New York Times (1997)
• “Bullish on LA Tech Companies,” Los Angeles Business Journal (1996)