As a corporate law and governance expert, Cathy Hwang specializes in a range of business law topics, including corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate disclosure processes and procedures, dealmaking and deal structure, corporate contracts, and corporate governance. She has been retained as an expert witness and has testified in deposition on disclosure and M&A transaction issues in a securities matter.
Professor Hwang has published her research in leading law journals, including Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Cornell Law Review.
Business law professors have voted several of her articles among the top ten corporate and securities articles in the years they were published. These include “National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions,” published in Columbia Law Review and excerpted in Mergers and Acquisitions: Law, Theory, and Practice (West, 2023); and “Deal Momentum,” published in UCLA Law Review and excerpted in Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Professor Hwang is the first woman of Asian descent to hold a tenured position at UVA School of Law. She teaches courses on M&A, corporations, deals, contract design, and topics in corporate and business law. Previously, Professor Hwang served on the faculty of the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where she received the University Early Career Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor for pre-tenured faculty members.
Professor Hwang was an academic fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a joint initiative of Stanford Law School and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She has held visiting professor appointments at the National Taiwan University College of Law; Levin College of Law, University of Florida; the Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania; and the UC Berkeley School of Law. In addition, Professor Hwang speaks regularly at legal and professional conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Prior to her academic career, Professor Hwang was an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom specializing in M&A.