Media giant CBS Corporation has named Larry Tu as senior executive vice president and chief legal officer, effective in early January 2014. He will succeed Louis Briskman, who announced his retirement last week after more than 30 years with the company.

Tu will join CBS from Dell, where he most recently served as general counsel, a position he held for more than nine years. Before that, he was general counsel of NBC Universal for three years, where he oversaw NBC's acquisition of Telemundo, Bravo and Universal.

Previously, Tu served as co-general counsel of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific, where he was based out of Hong Kong. He practiced law for 15 years at O'Melveny & Myers, specializing in corporate finance and M&A, including five years as the managing partner of the firm's Hong Kong Office.

Tu began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Walter Mansfield on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He later served three years in the U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Advisor, where he was responsible for international trade and investment issues while working extensively with other government agencies, and also served as a special assistant to the State Department's Legal Advisor.