Cisco Systems Recruits Morgan Lewis Partner Hwang as Head of M&A

Cisco Systems Inc. has hired Eric Hwang, a former in-house lawyer at Oracle Corp., to serve as its head of mergers and acquisitions and investments legal.

Hwang joined the San Jose, Calif.-based company at the end of January, Robyn Blum, a Cisco spokeswoman, confirmed. Hwang will be responsible for running merger deals and investments and work with a Cisco team led by its vice president of corporate securities and acquisitions, she said.

He was most recently a corporate partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif. He joined the law firm in 2018 after spending ...