Lawyers

June Hu is an associate in Sullivan & Cromwell’s General Practice Group. She maintains a multidisciplinary practice covering corporate and transactional matters. June is a member of the Firm’s Women’s Initiative Committee and a lecture-at-law at Columbia Law School.
 
She advises clients on a broad range of ESG-related matters, including climate- and ESG-related disclosures and policies, evolving legislative and regulatory requirements, board oversight of ESG, shareholder proposals and activism, stakeholder engagement, ESG issues in M&A transactions and renewable energy transactions. June also lectures and writes frequently on ESG and corporate governance matters.
 
June’s clients span a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer & retail, energy, manufacturing, healthcare and technology industries. Many of her advisory matters are resolved without public attention.

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

• AB InBev, Ally Financial, AT&T, Bank of N.T. Butterfield, Bank of New York Mellon, Boeing, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., JPMorgan, Linde, Royal Bank of Canada, SVB Financial, Triton International, US Bancorp and Volkswagen in connection with ESG and/or corporate governance matters
• On behalf of various issuers and trade groups, worked on comment letters on the SEC’s recent ESG-related rulemaking, including its proposed rules on climate-related disclosure
• Volkswagen Group and its subsidiary Electrify America, a leading network of electric vehicle fast chargers, in the $450 million investment by Siemens and VW to support the more-than-doubling of Electrify America’s charging infrastructure to 10,000 ultra-fast chargers at 1,800 charging stations by 2026
• UnitedHealth Group in Optum’s $6 billion merger with LHC Group
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the sale of its 31.6% stake in Puget Holdings to Macquarie Group and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board