KATHY KU
Partner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
IT is typical for former Supreme Court clerks to assume a place among the country’s leading litigators and academics. It is far rarer for someone like Kathy Ku, a former clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to become one of the country’s top deal lawyers.
Ku’s has advised on transformative tech industry deals involving tech sector giants like Google, Uber and Lyft. In the last two years alone, she represented cybersecurity firm Mandiant in its $5.4 billion acquisition by Google and Pensando Systems in its $1.9 billion acquisition by AMD. She also advised on a $690 million investment by Insight Ventures, GIC, and Smash Capital in Coda Payments.