Richard C. Hsu — Partner at King & Spalding

Mr. Richard C. Hsu serves as a Partner of King & Spalding LLP's Silicon Valley office. Mr. Hsu also serves as a Member of the Corporate Practice. 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 expertise in intellectual property asset management and licensing, having assisted numerous clients to develop and implement strategies to acquire, protect, enforce and commercialize various forms of intellectual property. Before joining King & Spalding, he was co-Managing Partner and Chair of the Technology Transactions practice group at Townsend and Townsend and Crew (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton). Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Hsu was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group (spinoff from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), where he represented more than 100 venture-backed startup technology companies and venture funds. 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. A frequent lecturer and writer, Mr. Hsu is a faculty member of the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and Stanford Director's College, was elected to the Executive Committee of the California State Bar IP Section and has written articles for the San Francisco Daily Journal, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Business Journal. He has also been quoted in numerous publications, including the Caltech News, Corporate Counsel and the Los Angeles Times. He holds a J.D. from Columbia University and B.S. from California Institute of Technology.