Dechert LLP
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Angela Liu
- Phone+1 312 646 5816
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Work Department
Securities Litigation/Enforcement
Position
Partner
Career
Angela M. Liu is a partner in the firm’s litigation practice group, where she focuses on the defense of publicly-traded companies and their directors and officers in securities class action litigation, derivative litigation, SEC investigations, merger litigation, corporate governance disputes, and other complex commercial litigation. Ms. Liu has successfully advised and defended public companies, as well as directors and officers in a wide range of matters arising from allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties, M&A litigation, accounting irregularities, and inadequate or misleading public disclosures.
In her pro bono practice, Ms. Liu has successfully represented plaintiffs at trial and in the Tenth Circuit in litigation challenging Kansas’ voter registration laws, as well as represented certain plaintiffs at trial and in the Seventh Circuit in litigation challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s voter identification laws with the American Civil Liberties Union. She was also lead counsel for certain plaintiffs in expedited proceedings in Tennessee that resulted in expanded access to mail-in voting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also recently addressed the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva with the Advocates for Human Rights. In addition, Ms. Liu is co-chair of the Asian Affinity Group and sits on the firmwide Diversity and Inclusion, Hiring, and Innovation committees.