Winston Hsiao
Partner, Litigation, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
Winston P. Hsiao is a Litigation Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. He practices complex civil litigation, representing clients in a wide range of suits including securities and shareholder litigation, contract and commercial disputes, trade secret actions, private arbitrations, internal investigations, and tax shelter and accounting malpractice claims. His clients include U.S. and international companies in the tech, financial services, tax consulting, pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare, energy, education and food and consumer goods industries.
Hsiao has an active pro bono practice and received, along with other Skadden attorneys, the ACLU of Southern California’s 2018 Access to Justice award for their work on Hernandez v. Sessions, which resulted in a precedential Ninth Circuit decision establishing that immigration officials must consider noncitizens’ ability to pay when setting bond. Currently, his pro bono representation includes assisting a national youth shelter in various legal disputes and assisting Asian American’s Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) in a petition to seek information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in order to assess the adequacy of the Department’s protocols and procedures to respond to reported incidents of hate against the local Asian American community.
In addition to serving on the Advisory Board of ASSC, Hsiao also serves on the Pro Bono Advisory Council for AJSOCAL and the Board of Governors of the Southern California Chinese Lawyer's Association. At Skadden, Hsiao is a member of the Los Angeles office’s Hiring and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committees, the head of office’s API Affinity Network, and a member of Skadden’s firmwide API Affinity Network Steering Committee.
He earned his B.A. in history from Yale University and his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, Order of the Coif.