KATHY KU

Partner Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Kathy Ku’s career legal work stretches from the highest levels of the judicial system as a clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to the highest levels of the corporate world, as an advisor on transformative deals like Careem’s $3.1 billion acquisition by Uber. The transactions she has handled for public and private companies includes the IPO of Internet Brands (owner of Fodor’s Travel, CarsDirect, and other top consumer websites) and Berkshire Hathaway’s complex acquisition of Duracell.

In the last two years, Ku has played a lead role on a host of particularly impactful deals, including her work acting as lead M&A partner on the $550 million sale of Lyft’s self-driving vehicle division, Level 5, to the Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. Lyft executed the deal in part to accelerate its path to profitability, which the company has now achieved for multiple consecutive quarters.