Peter Hsiao
Partner
King & Spalding LLP
Peter Hsiao is one of the nation’s leading environmental, energy and natural resources attorneys in Los Angeles. He heads King & Spalding’s West Coast Environmental, Health & Safety Practice and has more than 36 years of experience at the intersection of law, science and public policy, drawing upon his chemical engineering background. The firm’s clients turn to Hsiao to advise on a wide range of California’s cutting-edge environmental issues, including climate change, clean air and water technologies, green chemistry, transportation and transitioning to new energy sources.
Hsiao is one of the nation’s few chemical engineers who is also a skilled first-chair trial lawyer. He served as the senior assistant U.S. attorney for environmental and natural resources matters in Los Angeles, where he represented EPA, and the Departments of Defense, Energy and Interior in some of their largest environmental cases.
