Carmen Lu is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Activism Defense practice. She counsels boards and management teams of companies across industries on shareholder activism and hostile takeover defense, crisis management, investor engagement and corporate governance matters.
Carmen is a recognized thought leader on shareholder activism and corporate governance issues, and her articles have been featured in publications including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets, The M&A Lawyer, 13D Monitor and NYU Law School’s Compliance and Enforcement blog. A collection of her recent articles is accessible here. Carmen is also an advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program and serves as a guest lecturer on corporate governance matters at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School.
In 2025, Financier Worldwide named Carmen to its “Power Players: Shareholder Activism – Distinguished Advisers” list, which recognizes the ten leading advisers in shareholder activism and corporate governance.
Carmen graduated from Yale Law School, where she was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and executive editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize as highest-ranking graduate.
