Follow-Up: Huang Reportedly Retains Two Paul Weiss Litigation Partners as Personal Counsel; House Interview Letter Addressed Directly to His Lawyer

Friday, November 13, 2026 · Finance · GSM News

Jensen Huang, the former Nvidia chief executive, has retained two litigation partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (Paul Weiss) — Melinda Haag and Walter Brown — to represent him personally, according to a November 12 report by The New York Times. Bloomberg reporter Ian King independently learned of the same retention, CNBC said it had confirmed it, and Reuters followed up with a feature story on November 13. Huang resigned as Nvidia's president, chief executive and board member on November 11.

What the two lawyers have been hired to handle remains unclear. The Times cited two people with knowledge of the matter, and a Paul Weiss spokesman declined to comment to the paper. When Reuters followed up on Friday, spokespeople for Paul Weiss, Nvidia and Huang had no immediate comment on the nature of the work the firm is doing for Huang; Reuters said it could not independently confirm which lawyers are handling the matter.

A congressional letter provides documentary corroboration: the letter sent on Thursday (November 12) by Republican leaders of several House committees was addressed directly to Brown himself, saying they hoped to interview Huang behind closed doors next month. The letter asks Huang to sit for a closed-door transcribed interview on December 1 and to confirm in writing by 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday (November 13), or face a subpoena. As of Friday afternoon, no public response from Huang's side had been reported (as of publication).

A separate congressional track should not be confused with the one above: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast previously announced that Huang had agreed on November 11 to attend a closed-door briefing before Thanksgiving, with the exact date still under discussion. That agreement rests on Mast's announcement alone; as 24/7 Wall St. has noted, neither Huang himself, his lawyers nor Nvidia has issued a formal statement about the pre-Thanksgiving appearance. The November 12 letter, by contrast, demands written confirmation of the December 1 transcribed interview — a different matter.

Haag is a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, appointed by President Obama and serving from 2010 to 2015. Brown is the managing partner of Paul Weiss's San Francisco office and previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California. Paul Weiss has more than 1,500 lawyers and is one of the nation's leading firms; in March 2025 it reached an agreement with the Trump administration committing $40 million in pro bono legal services.

One distinction matters: the firm Huang retained personally is not the firm on the Nvidia board's side. The firm that ranks first in the nation by profits per partner is Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz — but Wachtell is the firm Nvidia's independent directors hired on November 10 to investigate Huang, led by Joon H. Kim. It sits on the opposite side from Huang's own counsel at Paul Weiss, and the two retentions should not be conflated.

Background: Nvidia announced on November 11 that its board had accepted Huang's resignation as president, chief executive and director, effective immediately; CFO Colette Kress became interim CEO and the board has launched a formal search. GSM will continue to follow this story.

Reference: Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC

Source: The New York Times

Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)

Photo: 图：黄仁勋在斯坦福大学出席对谈时发言。Anderseidesvik 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Jensen Huang speaking at a Stanford University talk. Photo by Anderseidesvik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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