AABANY Officers

Clara Ohr
President

Email: clara.ohr@aabany.org

Clara J. Ohr is the Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer for LUKOIL Pan Americas, LLC (LPA), where she oversees all legal and compliance matters relating to the trading of crude oil and petroleum products in the Americas and Caribbean for the US-based subsidiary of LITASCO SA (Lukoil International Trading and Supply Company).

Prior to joining LPA, Clara was an Assistant General Counsel – Trading at Hess Corporation in New York, NY, where she supported the supply and trading of energy commodities (physical crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, and electric power) including related financial and equity derivatives, foreign exchange, and interest rate swaps. Clara also has extensive experience in renewable and traditional energy project finance, emerging-market export and trade finance, foreign restructurings, general corporate law, asset-backed securitizations, and municipal finance. Prior to joining Hess Corporation, Clara served as Counsel at Axiom in New York, NY supporting the Energy Commodities Group at Deutsche Bank AG, an Associate in the Project Finance Group at Chadbourne & Parke LLP in New York, NY, Transactional Counsel at the Export-Import Bank of the United States in Washington, DC, and an Associate in the Finance Group of Kutak Rock LLP in Omaha, NE.

Clara is currently the Immediate Past President of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), the largest minority bar association in the State of New York with over 1,100 active members. Clara has also served AABANY as its President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Director, and Co-Chair of the In-House Counsel Corporate Counsel Committee. Outside of the office, Clara is a soprano in The Choral Society of Grace Church, a pianist, road cyclist, and an avid fan of Nebraska Cornhuskers football.

Clara received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, which included an exchange program in comparative international law at Uppsala University in Sweden. She also holds a Masters of Music in Piano Performance from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelors of Arts in East Asian Studies from Harvard College.

William Wang
President-Elect

Email: william.wang@aabany.org

William Wang is a partner at Lee Anav Chung White & Kim LLP. He is a commercial litigator who handles a diverse range of matters including complex contract disputes, business torts, and collections issues for a variety of clients that include financial institutions, commercial retail chains, small businesses, and individual clients. In 2005-2006, he clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Korman in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. William is formerly associated with the law firms of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP and Bryan Cave LLP. At Patterson Belknap, William represented large institutions in securities, antitrust and intellectual property litigation. William obtained his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, magna cum laude, in 2003. At Brooklyn, he was an editor for the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and Vice President of the Moot Court Honor Society. In 2000, he obtained his B.A. from Binghamton University (SUNY) with honors.

William has served AABANY in several capacities including Vice President, Finance and Development, Membership Secretary, Recording Secretary, and as co-chair of the Communications Committee and Litigation Committee. William is also actively involved in community and volunteer activities. He is currently the Chairman of the Dynasty Project, a 501(c)(3) organization that promotes athletics in underprivileged and Asian American communities. William is a former President of Project by Project (NY, 2009), a national non-profit organization. William volunteers for Apex for Youth, coaching basketball for 4th to 6th grade students at PS1 in the Lower East Side. He also serves as a director of Queens Legal Services, a nonprofit organization which seeks equal access to justice for all low-income residents of Queens.

Mike Huang
Immediate Past President

Email: mike.huang@aabany.org

Mike F. Huang is a member of the Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP’s corporate practice group. His practice focuses on a wide variety of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged recapitalizations, asset-based financings, working capital financings, project financings, and workout and restructuring facilities, and mergers and acquisitions.

Gurinder Singh
Vice President, Programs and Operations

Email: gurinder.singh@aabany.org

Gurinder J. Singh is the Founder and Managing Partner of Auvera Legal PLLC, a boutique law firm based in New York that specializes in advising on domestic and international transactions. She is also the Founder and CEO of Auvera Group Inc., a technology company that develops innovative software to help the legal industry more efficient.

Gurinder provides sophisticated legal advice to a broad spectrum of clients including many foreign companies looking to enter the United States or domestic companies looking to expand internationally. She provides expertise in various types of international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and other contractual relationships and also advises on compliance matters relating to regulations that affect companies doing business internationally. Gurinder's experience encompasses a wide range of industries including automotive, technology, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, retail, food and beverage, and media and entertainment.

Prior to founding Auvera Legal, Gurinder spent seven years with Miller Canfield working as a corporate transactional attorney where she was the Chair of the firm’s India Team and also helped launch the firm’s New York office.

Gurinder currently serves as the Vice President of Programs and Operations at the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), which is the largest minority bar association in the state of New York.

Gurinder graduated from Wayne State University Law School, Cum Laude in 2007. She graduated from the University of Michigan, College of Engineering in 2001, where she received her Bachelor in Science and Engineering in Industrial and Operations Engineering.

Bobby Liu
Vice President, Finance and Development

Email: bobby.liu@aabany.org

Bobby Liu is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of M.D. Sass. Since joining in July 2005, Mr. Liu has been responsible for all legal, regulatory and compliance matters affecting the M.D. Sass organization, which includes a number of investment advisers and one broker dealer. Mr. Liu became the organization’s Chief Operating Officer in January 2012 and also manages the administration/operations, client services, marketing support and human resources departments. The M.D. Sass organization currently has over $7 billion in assets under management. M.D. Sass offers both traditional and alternative investment strategies in the form of private equity funds, hedge funds and separately managed accounts, and M.D. Sass also incubates emerging investment managers.

Prior to joining M.D. Sass, Mr. Liu was the General Counsel of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, a global institutional alternative asset management firm that primarily manages hedge funds and private equity funds. Och-Ziff represents one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world, with currently over $30 billion in assets under management.

From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Liu was a corporate associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in their New York and Hong Kong offices, specializing in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Liu graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1993 with a B.A. in Economics and History. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1996. Mr. Liu was selected as one of NAPABA’s "Best Lawyers Under 40" for 2011.

Jane Chuang
Treasurer

Email: jane.chuang@aabany.org

Jane is a partner at Lee Anav Chung White & Kim LLP. She advises small and medium-sized businesses on copyright, trademark and media law issues, and commercial disputes. Previously, Jane was a founding partner of Yim & Chuang LLP, and was formerly associated with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Anne E. Thompson in the District of New Jersey from 2005 to 2006. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Columbia College, Columbia University (2001). She received her J.D., cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law (2005), where she served as a Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Law Review. Jane is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.

Irene Tan
Membership Secretary

Email: irene.tan@aabany.org

Irene Tan is an Associate Counsel at AIG Property Casualty where she supports Financial Lines underwriters in the Private/Not-for-Profit division. She joined AIG in 2013 as a member of AIG PC’s Core Compliance team covering anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and economic sanctions issues. Prior to joining AIG, Irene was Vice President at a boutique consulting firm where she advised alternative asset management firms on regulatory, governance, and compliance issues.

While attending law school, Irene was a judicial intern for the Hon. Ramon E. Reyes of the Eastern District of New York and worked at the NYSE, FINRA, New York State Attorney General’s Office, and the NYC Law Department. In addition, she served as the Executive Articles and Symposia Editor of the Journal of Law & Policy and was a research assistant for Centennial Professor of Law Roberta Karmel.

Irene received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2011 and her B.S. in Policy Analysis & Management from Cornell University in 2006. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. Irene has been a member of AABANY since 2008 and previously served as co-chair of the Student Outreach and Young Lawyers Committees.

Naf Kwun
Recording Secretary

Email: naf.kwun@aabany.org

Naf Kwun is an associate at Lee Anav Chung White & Kim LLP, where her primary practice areas are commercial litigation and corporate transactions. Previously, Naf served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Patricia M. DiMango of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

While attending law school, Naf worked at Google Inc., the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Federal Communications Commission, where she worked in the Office of the Chairman and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. In addition, she was a student attorney in the First Amendment and Media Law Section of the Georgetown University Institute of Public Representation. Prior to law school, Naf founded a tutoring and education consulting business.

Naf received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley.

In addition to her role as Recording Secretary, Naf serves as Co-Chair of AABANY's Women's Committee and as Editor-in-Chief of AABANY's quarterly newsletter, The Advocate. Naf is also an active member of the New York City Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.

Executive Director

Yang Chen
Executive Director

Email: yang.chen@aabany.org

Yang Chen is the Executive Director of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), a position he has held since August 2009. Mr. Chen is AABANY's first Executive Director. He has been active in AABANY for many years, having served on the Board and numerous committees, including the Judicial Affairs (now Judiciary) Committee, of which he was a chair. Mr. Chen served as AABANY's President in 2008. Before becoming AABANY's Executive Director, Mr. Chen was a partner in the firm of Constantine Cannon, a law firm specializing in antitrust and complex commercial litigation. He was among the group that founded the firm in 1994, which started as Constantine & Associates. Before joining Constantine Cannon, Mr. Chen was an associate in the New York office of McDermott, Will & Emery and before that he was associated with Breed, Abbott & Morgan (now Winston & Strawn). Mr. Chen is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and Binghamton University.

AABANY Directors

Francis Chin
Email: francis.chin@aabany.org

Francis H. Chin is a senior administrator at Brooklyn Law School, focusing on information technology. As a chair of the Professional Development Committee, Mr. Chin coordinates AABANY's continuing legal education program; he has previously served as membership secretary as well as recording secretary for AABANY. He has been involved with the Hon. Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition in various capacities since 1996, including hosting, judging and problem writing. Mr. Chin has joined in the writing, performing, and stage managing of Asian Pacific American historical trial reenactments held yearly since 2006 led by federal appellate judge Hon. Denny Chin. In 2010, Mr. Chin received AABANY's MVP Award for outstanding member contribution. Among other activities, Mr. Chin also serves on the board of directors for the NYU Alumni Association.

While attending Brooklyn Law School, Mr. Chin co-authored the McGraw-Hill computer manual HTML Publishing on the Internet. After graduation, he was of counsel to Llorens and Meneses in New Jersey, where he practiced residential real estate, business formation, and immigration, and then was technology counsel at Netmatrix (now Epiq), an e-discovery and knowledge management firm in New York. Mr. Chin holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from New York University, a law degree from Brooklyn Law School and a certificate in Transnational Law from Duke University School of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law; he is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.

James Chou
Email: james.chou@aabany.org

James P. Chou is a senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, focusing on complex commercial and bankruptcy litigation for private equity funds, hedge funds, major financial institutions, multinational corporations. Mr. Chou regularly advises and represents leading investment fund clients and their portfolio companies in managing and assessing their litigation risks with regard to their investments and related transactions, and in proceedings before various courts and tribunals.

Mr. Chou’s recent representations include defending the claims agent for a former chapter 11 debtor and leading semiconductor company against a breach of contract action brought by its former overseas subsidiary, seeking $ 1 billion in rejection damages. After extensive discovery, including depositions of the subsidiary’s president and CEO, the case settled at a small fraction of the claim.

In addition to commercial litigation work, Mr. Chou also represented the New York County Democratic Committee in Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of Elections, a First Amendment associational rights case involving the constitutionality of New York’s convention system for nominating judicial candidates for the state’s Supreme Court. In connection with the case—profiled in the New York Law Journal as one of the Top Ten Cases of 2004—Mr. Chou tried a 12-day evidentiary hearing before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and participated in appeals to the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, which rendered a unanimous decision in his client’s favor in January 2008.

Mr. Chou served on the board of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) as its Northeast Regional Governor (2007-2009) and was a recipient of the 2008 NAPABA Best Lawyers Under 40 Award. He is also a past president of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) and currently co-chairs AABANY's Judicial Affairs Committee, which identifies, screens and supports judicial candidates for local, state and federal courts. He currently sits on the New York City Bar’s Council on Judicial Administration and its Federal Courts Committee.

Mr. Chou received his B.A. magna cum laude from New York University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Chou is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd and 3rd circuits and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern districts of New York.

Steve Chung
Email: steve.chung@aabany.org

Steve Chung is a Vice President of News for NBCUniversal and is the lead attorney for the TODAY Show, the owned stations division, and the syndicated talk show group. He regularly works with producers and reporters on all issues ranging from intellectual property, compliance, news gathering, contracts, strategic ventures and litigation.

Prior to joining NBC, Steve worked as a litigator at Debevoise & Plimpton and at Davis Wright Tremaine, where he counseled numerous media clients on a wide range of issues. Steve is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. He also clerked for Judge William Schwarzer in the Northern District of California.



Christina Lee
Email: christina.lee@aabany.org

Christina Lee is Deputy General Counsel at AIG Property Casualty, where she serves as chief counsel to several business units of AIG’s Global Consumer Insurance Group. Ms. Lee provides legal and regulatory advice to senior executives around the globe on strategic initiatives, new business and renewal opportunities, product development and distribution. Ms. Lee has extensive experience in negotiating global transactions and structuring multinational programs. Prior to joining AIG, Ms. Lee served as Assistant General Counsel for AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., where she handled corporate transactions, regulatory matters and litigation management. For several years, Ms. Lee worked as counsel for the New York Department of Financial Services, where she represented state insurance commissioners as statutory receiver of insolvent insurance companies. In private practice, Ms. Lee handled an array of complex commercial litigation and insurance coverage disputes in state and federal courts.

Ms. Lee is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Ms. Lee received her J.D. degree from Temple University School of Law, which included a study abroad in comparative international law at Oxford University. She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was an Edward Frank Kraft Scholar. Ms. Lee currently serves as a Director of the Board of the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association.


Jean Lee
Email: jean.lee@aabany.org

Jean Lee is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Ms. Lee was an associate with Milberg LLP. At Milberg, she practiced in the areas of securities class action and False Claims Act litigation. Ms. Lee also served as the law clerk to the Honorable John J. Hughes, United States Magistrate Judge (retired), in the District of New Jersey.

She graduated from New York University with a B.A. degree in Politics and Psychology and a M.S.W. in Social Work. Ms. Lee received her J.D. degree from Rutgers School of Law. During law school, Ms. Lee was a Senior Editor of the Rutgers Law Record.

Ms. Lee has been a member of AABANY since 2008. She has served on AABANY's Board of Directors since 2010 and as President in 2012. She is also a member of the New York City Bar's Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award Selection Committee and is a Director of the Board of Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Robert Leung
Email: robert.leung@aabany.org

Robert W. Leung is a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. His main practice areas include corporate finance, commercial lending, joint ventures, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and structured and project finance. Mr. Leung has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, particularly in Latin America, having advised clients on significant cross-border strategic and financing transactions.

Recent transactions for which Mr. Leung has been primarily responsible include: representing borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured financings; representing companies in joint venture negotiations; representing purchasers and sellers in M&A transactions; representing project companies with multiple sponsors in multi-source emerging market project financings in the oil and gas and mining industries; representing project companies in greenfield power projects; representing private investment funds in a broad range of transactions; and advising major corporations on general corporate matters, including in particular corporate governance matters and contract interpretation issues.

Mr. Leung has served on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) from 2006 to present. Mr. Leung served as President of AABANY in 2010.

Karen Lim
Email: karen.lim@aabany.org

Karen Lim is a partner at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C., an intellectual property law firm that specializes in trademark, copyright, and design patent matters. Her practice focuses on U.S. and international trademark counseling, searching, filing and maintenance; trademark policing and enforcement; and the preparation of agreements and licenses pertaining to intellectual property.

Before joining Fross, Karen was an associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP and at White & Case LLP, clerked for the Hon. Harold Baer in the Southern District of New York, and designed costumes for theatre and opera across the United States. She is a graduate of Cambridge University and Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Notes and Articles editor of the Fordham Law Review.

Karen co-chairs the Trademark and Programming subcommittees of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association's Intellectual Property Committee. She co-founded and is a former Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, and former Chair of the Subcommittee for Women of Color, Women in the Profession Committee, New York City Bar.

James Lin
Email: james.lin@aabany.org

Mr. Lin graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. While attending Hofstra University’s School of Law, he was a member of the Moot Court Board, the Labor Law Journal, and The Environmental Law Digest. He also founded Hofstra University’s chapter of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Since 1989 Mr. Lin has been an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney’s office and has prosecuted homicides since 1999. During his career there he has been twice appointed a Criminal Court Supervisor of first and second year prosecutors and has been designated a Domestic Violence Coordinator. He was a member of that office’s Asian Gang Unit. In 2008 he helped form AABANY’s Prosecutors’ Committee and Co-Chaired it for four years. In 2011 he was elected to AABANY’s Board of Directors and re-elected in 2013. Mr. Lin has been a member of the New York State Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure since March 2010. The committee recommends legislative proposals concerning criminal law and procedure to the Chief Administrative Judge of New York State. To date, Mr. Lin’s toughest "assignment” may very well be his leadership of his son’s Cub Scout Den.

Linda Lin
Email: linda.lin@aabany.org

Linda S. Lin is Senior Counsel and Senior Complex Claims Director at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI). Linda supports BHSI with respect to executive and professional liability matters, including D&O, E&O, EPL, fiduciary, fidelity and cyber liability matters. Prior to joining BHSI, Linda was Senior Counsel at Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, where she supported LIU with respect to securities and employment matters. Prior to LIU, she was a litigation associate at the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. She also served as law clerk to the Hon. Dora L. Irizarry, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Linda received her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law with honors from Binghamton University and her Juris Doctorate cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where she was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society.

She has been an active member and leader in AABANY since 2005, serving on its Advisory Committee since 2012, as President in 2011 and Director from 2007-2009 and 2012-2015. Linda co-chairs AABANY's Judiciary and Academic Committees. Linda is the founder and director of the Joint Minority Bar Judicial Internship Program. She is also the found of the AABANY Law Review and AABANY Advocate.

Margaret Ling
Email: margaret.ling@aabany.org

Margaret T. Ling is Vice President and Senior Counsel at First Nationwide Title Agency, LLC. Margaret has been a real estate attorney since 1986. Her real estate experience includes the following: Private Real Estate Practice, Agency Underwriting Counsel at Stewart Title Insurance Company and the Ticor-Fidelity Title Group, Claims Counsel at First American Title Insurance Companies, In-House Counsel at CHM Abstract LLC, Titleserv LLC, Intracoastal Abstract LLC, the Couch Braunsdorf Insurance Group, Summit Associates, the Great American Title Agency, Inc., and Skyline Title-TRG of the Reology Group.

Margaret received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History, Cum Laude and Dean’s List, from Barnard College of Columbia University and her Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School. She is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department.

She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Real Estate Committee and has been Director of AABANY’s board since 2009. Her other bar association memberships include the New York County Lawyers’ Association, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Asia Practice Committee, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the Asian Pacific American Lawyers’ Association of New Jersey, and the New York State Bar Association. She is also an active member of the Asian Real Estate Association of America, where she is an Advisory Director of the Board for the AREAA-New York East Chapter, the Chinese American Real Estate Association, the New York Chinese Bankers’ Association, and the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.

As a proud Barnard/Columbia alum, Margaret is also involved with the Barnard Business Professionals’ Association, where she was formally a Director of the Board. She is also a member of the Asian Alumnae Association of Columbia University.

When Margaret is not busy being a real estate attorney, she is passionate about her golf. She is a member of the United States Golf Association, Volunteer Golf Coach with the First Tee Program of New Jersey, Chair and Member of the PGA Barclays Golf Tournament from 2008 to date, LPGA Pro Am Volunteer for the LGPA Shoprite Classic from 2012 to date, and a PGA Volunteer for the New Jersey PGA Special Olympics of Golf.

Teena-Ann V. Sankoorikal
Email: tsankoorikal@cravath.com

Teena Sankoorikal is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Ms. Sankoorikal has a broad litigation practice, with particular experience in copyright, patent, and trade secret and antitrust matters, as well as experience with securities, Alien Tort Statute issues and internal investigations. Ms. Sankoorikal co-authored Intellectual Property Law Answer Book 2011-12, published by the Practising Law Institute.In 2013, Ms. Sankoorikal was recognized as a "Rising Star” by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). In 2012, she received the "Best Lawyers Under 40” award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association for her outstanding professional achievements and dedication to the Asian Pacific American community. Since 2007, Ms. Sankoorikal has been a partner liaison to the firm's Asian/Pacific Islander Associate Affinity Group. She has also participated on various panels, including those focused on issues relating to women and Asian Americans. Ms. Sankoorikal received a B.S. in Chemistry cum laude from Yale University in 1996 and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, where she was the Research Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She joined Cravath in 1999 and became a partner in 2007.

Susan Shin
Email: susan.shin@aabany.org

Susan L. Shin is a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP and is a resident of its New York office. She practices complex business litigationon behalf of financial institutions and corporate clients in litigated disputes in state and federal courts and in arbitrations. She also defends institutions and individual clients in investigations and enforcement proceedings conducted by the SEC, OCC, DOJ, other federal agencies, FINRA, the New York Attorney General's office, and other state regulators. Ms. Shin has handled matters involving residential mortgage-backed securitizations, mortgage loan servicing, derivatives, auction rate securities, accounting, audits, books and records, compliance, disclosure, executive compensation, stock options back-dating, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, financial and other reporting. She has also successfully defended clients against allegations of financial fraud, insider trading, inadequate internal controls and supervision, market manipulation, improper sales and trading practices, and breach of fiduciary duty. She represents a wide array of financial services firms, including public companies and banks, mutual fund companies, hedge funds, broker-dealers, investment advisers, as well as individual directors and senior corporate executives. Ms. Shin has an active pro bono practice representing New York City charter schools in bringing and challenging actions involving charter school co-locations.

Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, Ms. Shin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie, US District Court, Eastern District of New York, from 2002 - 2003, and was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2001-2002. Ms. Shin is a 2001 graduate of Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Prior to her legal career, Ms. Shin spent over four years at J.P. Morgan as an Associate in the investment management business. Ms. Shin is a frequent CLE speaker on legal ethics. Ms. Shin has participated on various AABANY panels, including those focused on insider trading, judicial clerkships, and issues relating to women and Asian Americans. In addition to serving on the board of AABANY, Ms. Shin serves on the board of New York City Outward Bound Schools and served on the board of New York County Lawyers Association Foundation from 2011 to 2014.

Email: pyeung@gylawny.com 

Pauline Yeung-Ha is a Partner in the law firm of Grimaldi & Yeung LLP. Ms. Yeung-Ha concentrates in the practice areas of Trusts, Wills and Estates, Elder Law as well as Special Needs Planning. She received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College and her law degree from St. John’s University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey. Ms. Yeung-Ha has been named one of "New York’s Women Leaders in the Law 2012,” New York Magazine’s "Best Lawyer 2012 to 2014,” Super Lawyer’s "Rising Star 2011 to 2013,” and NAPABA’s "Best Lawyers Under 40 2011.”

Currently, Ms. Yeung-Ha is one of the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law Executive Committee, and holds the Vice-Chair of the Diversity Committee position, having completed her term as Second District Delegate. She currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter. Ms. Yeung-Ha is a Board Member and Counsel for the Chinese American Alzheimer’s Coalition of New York City. She is also a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA).

Ms. Yeung-Ha served as the Co-Chair in the Elder Law Section’s 2011 Annual Meeting, and was a panel speaker in the 2012 Annual Meeting. She often provides Continuing Legal Education for the Trusts and Estates Section and Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association as well as AABANY. She currently co-chairs AABANY’s Solo and Small Firm Practice Committee.

Ms. Yeung-Ha is active in serving the community as well. Aside from conducting presentations in English, she also gives seminars in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Yeung-Ha was a key speaker for Assemblywoman Grace Meng’s Senior Law & Financial Planning Workshop. In September 2010, Assemblywoman Grace Men awarded Ms. Yeung-Ha with a Citation in appreciation of her continued service and support to the Asian community. Ms. Yeung-Ha has been quoted in The New York Times and is frequently featured in the World Journal and Sing Tao Daily, Chinese newspapers.