Alice Hsu
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alice Hsu’s practice focuses on capital markets and corporate governance matters, with particular experience in the energy and financial services industries. She advises boards of directors, issuers, underwriters and investors in a broad range of transactions.
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A Brave New World: Top 10 Topics for Directors in 2021
The world has changed a lot since Akin Gump's 2020 Top 10 Topics for Directors report. A global pandemic; an ongoing reckoning on race, inequality and social justice; a climate crisis; an economic shock; and increased political polarization have created challenging dynamics for companies and boards globally. This report delves into these wide-ranging issues and offers insight on how directors and management must proactively embrace their stewardship roles in this brave new world.
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Navigating the Bumps: A corporate partner tries to help other women find legal jobs and thrive
Alice Hsu, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, focuses on capital markets and corporate governance. Her family’s favored professions, however, were centered around medicine and engineering, leading Alice to wonder what her life would have been like had she followed one of those...
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Cybersecurity Update: Are Data Breach Disclosure Requirements On Target?
As discussed in Akin Gump’s annual “Top Ten Topics for Directors in 2014,” cybersecurity and data privacy are indeed among the hottest topics in the boardroom this year due to the dramatic rise in cyber attacks and data breaches. As part of a board’s risk management...
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SEC Releases Guidance On Application Of Regulation FD To Social Media Channels
On April 2, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Report of Investigation (the “Report”)[1] in connection with its investigation of whether a post by the chief executive officer of Netflix, Inc. on his personal Facebook page violated Regulation FD. The SEC...
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Whistleblowing - A Better Way To Separate Credible Tips?
Editor: Please comment on how the new rules for whistleblowers differ from the SEC's current whistleblower program. Hsu: In July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act added Section 21F to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This new section requires the SEC, pursuant to such rules as it adopts, to pay...
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