Viet D. Dinh is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s General Practice Group. Viet advises corporations, boards of directors and C-suite executives on major transactions, corporate governance, litigations and investigations, and other complex situations requiring coordinated legal and business judgment.
Viet has held several notable leadership roles throughout his career. Prior to joining S&C, Viet was a senior executive of Fox Corporation, serving as Chief Legal and Policy Officer and Special Advisor. He led the formation and spin-off of Fox and closed the sale of 21st Century Fox to The Walt Disney Company, and helped established FoxBet in partnership with FanDuel. He also supervised and helped settle the longest civil litigation in UK history.
Before that, Viet was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and founded and led Bancroft PLLC, a Washington, D.C.-based firm known for high-stakes appellate and other complex litigation and crisis-management matters.
From 2001 to 2003, he served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was responsible for major legal-policy and national-security matters, including following the September 11 terrorist attacks. He played a key role in developing the USA Patriot Act and revising the Attorney General’s Guidelines governing federal law enforcement and national security investigations.
For two decades, Viet was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in corporations and constitutional law. His representative publications include “Defending Liberty: Terrorism and Human Rights” in the Helsinki Monitor, “Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise” in the Journal of Corporation Law, and “Financial Sector Reform and Economic Development” in Law and Policy in International Business. He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Viet currently serves on the Boards of Wonder Inc. and Strategic Education Inc., and previously of 21st Century Fox, News Corporation, Revlon Inc., and LPL Financial Holdings, among other public companies.
