Akua F. Abu is an associate in Wachtell Lipton’s Litigation Department.

Akua received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she served as the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, notes & comments editor for the Journal of Law & Technology, and a student attorney with Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute. She received her M.S. in Management Sciences and Engineering from Stanford and her B.A., cum laude with honors, in Applied Mathematics from Harvard.

Before joining Wachtell Lipton, Akua clerked for the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.