ABOUT
James Hu is an M&A partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York who counsels investors, boards of directors, senior executives and founders on strategic, legal and business matters in all types of M&A transactions, including leverage buyouts, public company mergers, corporate carve-outs, minority investments and distressed situations. Over the course of his career, James has advised on announced M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over US$100 billion. James has also served as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech since 2020, where he teaches an upper-class course on M&A. He is admitted to practice in New York, and received his Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School.
