Victor Hou

Practice Areas

Victor L. Hou is a trial lawyer who represents companies and individuals in high stakes litigation, including cross-border investigations and parallel civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense, securities and derivative litigation, corporate governance, and general commercial litigation.

Victor represents numerous global investment banks, financial institutions and multinational corporations, and senior executives in securities, antitrust and other complex litigation, as well as in criminal and regulatory matters involving the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and state attorney general’s offices. He also regularly advises Boards of Directors on matters relating to corporate governance.

He has been teaching securities litigation at Columbia Law School since 2021.

Career

Joined firm (2007); Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of NY (2001-2007); Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (1999); Cravath Swaine & Moore (1997-2001); J.D., New York University School of Law (1997); A.B., cum laude, Georgetown University (1992).

Professional Memberships

New York Bar, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Eastern District of Michigan, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Ninth Circuits. Member, Board of Advisors of the Institute of Judicial Administration, NYU School of Law, Member, New York Council of Defense Lawyers.