AABANY Officers

William Wang
President

Email: william.wang@aabany.org

William Wang is an Assistant Attorney General in the Charities Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General. William works in the Enforcement Section, where he conducts investigations and civil litigation of fraud, misappropriation, and breaches of fiduciary duty in charitable organizations. 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 Lee Anav Chung White & Kim LLP, 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 is currently the 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. William has also served AABANY in several capacities including Vice President, Finance and Development, Membership Secretary, Recording Secretary, and as co-chair of the Litigation Committee. William is also actively involved in community and volunteer activities. William is a former President of Project by Project (NY, 2009), a national non-profit organization. William volunteers for Apex for Youth and the Dynasty Project, coaching basketball to elementary and middle school at PS1 in the Lower East Side/Chinatown.

Susan Shin
President-Elect

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 litigation on 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.

Clara J. Ohr
Immediate Past 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 Corporate Counsel (now In-House 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.

Marianne Chow
Vice President, Programs and Operations

Email: marianne.chow@aabany.org

Marianne Chow is a counsel at Hearst Corporation, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies, where she is a member of the international corporate team in the Office of General Counsel. She focuses her practice on cross-border joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements and other transactional matters. Prior to joining Hearst Corporation, Marianne was a corporate associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she was a member of the Finance Group and primarily represented private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in financing transactions, including acquisition and other leveraged financings and asset-based facilities.

Marianne received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 2007. Prior to law school, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Yokohama, Japan, where she performed comparative research on immigration policies and socio-economic development of Chinese communities in Japan and the United States. Marianne earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from Tufts University in 2003 where she majored in International Relations and minored in Japanese.

Marianne has been an active member of AABANY since 2014 and previously served as co-chair of the Women's Committee and Career Placement Committee.

William Ng
Vice President, Finance and Development

Email: william.ng@aabany.org

William H. Ng is an Associate at Littler Mendelson, P.C., the largest U.S.-based law firm exclusively devoted to representing management in every aspect of labor and employment law. His practice focuses on defending businesses and companies in employment litigation matters and wage and hour class and collective actions. In addition to his litigation practice, William regularly counsels employers on their workplace policies and practices for compliance with federal, state and local employment laws. Prior to joining Littler, William spent more than five and a half years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel and Senior Counsel in the Tort and Labor & Employment Law Divisions of the New York City Law Department.

William has served AABANY in numerous capacities, including as a Board Director, Recording Secretary and Co-Chair of various committees. William is the founding co-chair of the Labor & Employment Law Committee and has co-chaired the Communications, Young Lawyers, Government & Public Sector (now the Government Service & Public Interest) and Student Outreach Committees. William is also a co-director of the Joint Minority Bar Judicial Internship Program (JMB JIP), an internship program that places diverse first and second year law students in federal and state judicial internships in New York.

William was selected as a Diversity Fellow of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section in 2013-2014 and named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers Rising Stars List in 2014. William received his B.A. from Binghamton University, cum laude, in 2004 and his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 2007.

Naf Kwun
Treasurer

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 Treasurer, Naf serves as Editor-in-Chief of AABANY's quarterly newsletter, The Advocate.  She has been an active member of AABANY since 2011 and has previously served as Recording Secretary and as Co-Chair of the Women's Committee.  Naf is also an active member of the New York City Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.

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.  

Ligee Gu

Recording Secretary

Email: ligee.gu@aabany.org

Ligee Gu is an associate at Halperin Battaglia Benzija, LLP since 2010, where her primary practice is commercial bankruptcy and litigation. She has represented debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, individual creditors, estate representatives, and liquidation trustees. Ligee has experience in commercial litigation matters, including cases involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud. In addition, she has worked on insurance coverage litigation and collection actions.

While attending law school, Ligee interned at the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts in the Consumer Protection Division. In addition, Ligee was a judicial intern at the Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, Massachusetts and at the Kings County Supreme Court for the Honorable Michelle Weston in Brooklyn, New York.

Ligee received her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, & Law and History, with a minor in Economics at Binghamton University in 2007 and her J.D. from New England Law-Boston in 2010. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York, including the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern District of New York. Ligee was named to the 2014 New York Metro Rising Stars list.

Ligee has been an active member of AABANY since 2012 and is the Co-Chair of AABANY’s Commercial Bankruptcy & Restructuring Committee, which she co-founded in 2013.

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

Steve Chung
Email: steve.chung@aabany.org

Steve Chung is a Senior Vice President in NBCUniversal’s Newsgroup where he serves as the lead content lawyer for the Owned Stations Division, NBC Sports, NBC Entertainment and the TODAY Show. He provides counsel to and collaborates with senior management on all matters relating to content. He has also served as the lead lawyer for the syndicated television division, which currently includes programming like the Meredith Viera Show, the Maury Povich Show, the Steve Wilkos Show and the Jerry Springer Show. Steve also serves on NBCUniversal’s diversity council and is co-chair of the outside counsel committee devoted to the company’s retention of diverse attorneys and minority/women owned law firms.

Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Steve was a litigator at Davis Wright Tremaine and Debevoise and Plimpton. His practice focused on representing media clients, including Viacom, Rolling Stone, Simon & Schuster among many others. Steve also served as a federal law clerk in the Northern District of California for Judge William Schwarzer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Prior to attending law school, Steve was a consultant at ZS Associates. At ZS, Steve managed large project teams, which included graduates from the top 5 MBA programs in the country, and directly provided strategic advice to senior executives at the leading pharmaceutical companies, like Pfizer and Eli Lily. Steve was also instrumental in working with W.W. Grainger to completely transform their sales strategy, using an innovative algorithm applied towards millions of records of historical sales data.

Diane Gujarati
Email: diane.gujarati@aabany.org

Diane Gujarati is an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she has worked since 1999 and where she currently serves as a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Gujarati served as a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked as a litigator at Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Ms. Gujarati graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics and received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to law school, Ms. Gujarati worked as an analyst in the Banking and Corporate Finance Group at Chemical Bank.

Ms. Gujarati has extensive federal investigative, trial, and appellate experience and significant experience in the area of Government ethics. Ms. Gujarati has been a member of AABANY since 2013 and has been active with its Women’s and Judiciary Committees.

Mike Huang
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.

Emily Kim
Email: emily.kim@aabany.org

Emily A. Kim is the Chief Policy & Legal Officer at Success Academy Charter Schools, a non-profit charter management organization that operates 34 public charter schools in New York City. Ms. Kim heads the Policy, Legal, and Special Education departments at Success Academy. She leads the Policy team in developing and advancing charter school policy and legislation, with an aim toward meaningfully advancing education reform and making available high-quality educational opportunities for all public school students. Ms. Kim also heads a litigation team that has led the way in defense of the charter movement in New York City, managing dozens of litigation challenges concerning co-location, rent, facilities, audit demands, and school matters. She further oversees legal matters, a robust school conflict resolution practice, and school safety matters.

Before joining Success Academy, Ms. Kim practiced litigation at large New York City law firms, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dora L. Irizarry in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Ms. Kim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature. She also received a Master of Education from the Teachers College, Columbia University in 1999. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2005.

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.

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 served as a Director on 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 formerly 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 LPGA Shoprite Classic from 2012 to date, and a PGA Volunteer for the New Jersey PGA Special Olympics of Golf.

Bobby Liu
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.

Tristan Loanzon
Email: tristan.loanzon@aabany.org

Tristan is an experienced commercial trial lawyer who has tried cases to verdict in state and federal courts. Since 2005, he has also served as outside general counsel to three medium-sized New York companies. Before founding his own law firm, Loanzon LLP, he worked at large firms in Washington, D.C., and New York, where he represented Fortune 100 corporations in corporate counseling and litigation. He graduated from Northwestern University Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Law Review, and Georgetown University Law Center. For several years, he served as Co-Chair of the Litigation Committee of AABANY. From 2001-2004, he was a member of the New York City Bar Association Affairs Committee. He is currently a Co-Chair of the Corporate Law Committee of NYCLA. Tristan is admitted to practice law in New York and California.

Sonia Low
Email: sonia.low@aabany.org

Sonia Low joined THE ONE Group Hospitality Inc., in 2014.  As General Counsel, she oversees the legal affairs of the publicly-traded company and its affiliates and manages a one and a half-person legal department.  Most recently, she was the first General Counsel and in-house lawyer of one of the most influential Asian American organizations in New York City, Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc., where she advised on matters including corporate governance, employment law, real estate law, intellectual property law, regulatory compliance, not-for-profit laws and litigation.  She created company-wide policies and procedures while integrating the legal department with the daily operations of the company.

Ms. Low's industry experience includes prior representation of companies such as Benihana and Patina Restaurant Group, at which she facilitated the acquisition of The Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group restaurants outside of New York.  She has also served as in-house counsel at Credit Suisse where she represented private equity groups on legal and compliance matters and managed corporate risk, and at Automatic Data Processing, Inc. where she advised on securities laws and regulatory and compliance issues. 

In 1999, Ms. Low began her career at a major international law firm where she specialized in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.  While working at the law firm for five years, she spent one year at the Paris office advising European clients on U.S. securities, employment, tax, litigation, and insurance laws.  Ms. Low also led pro bono projects representing not-for-profit organizations such as Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Low served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Ellis in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Ms. Low received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School where she was a merit-based scholarship recipient and managing editor of The Journal of International Law.  Ms. Low received her B.A. in English from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Larry Wee
Email: lawrence.wee@aabany.org

A partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets and Securities Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Lawrence G. Wee focuses on capital markets and finance transactions and securities regulation. Larry is recognized by The Legal 500 as a leading capital markets lawyer.

Larry's practice includes public and private equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, convertible debt offerings and offerings of asset-backed securities. He also represents public companies in connection with their ongoing securities law and corporate governance matters and advises in connection with public mergers and acquisitions transactions. Larry also has extensive experience in debt consent solicitations, debt restructurings and exchange offers.

Larry is a Co-Chair of the Corporate Law Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and is also a member of the Board of Regents of Trinity International University. Larry is the author of An Illustrated Guide to High-Yield Debt Standard Covenants which he has presented at the Practising Law Institute's "Understanding the Securities Laws" program. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Yale College.

Email: pauline.yeungha@aabany.org

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 serves as a delegate in 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 chairs AABANY’s Compensation 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 Meng 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, leading Chinese-language  newspapers.