Supplement to the Los Angeles and San Francisco
MAY 9, 2012
ABELL ARGUEDAS BACA BARBOUR BERINGER
BORELLI
BOSMAN BOXWELL BRILL BUNZEL BURROW CABRASER
CANDIDO
CHAE
CHOPRA
CLARENCE
CONWAY
CROWTHER DARLING DERMODY DIAMOND DOOLITTLE
DUFFY DUNN DURIE ESKENAZI ESTRICH FISHER FISHER
FRANKLE GILFORD GILLAM GLASER HAAG HELZER
HENRY HERMLE HOLLANDER HOLLEY HOUSE JEFFRIES
JOHNSON
KANE
KANTOR
KEEFE
KELLER
KIM
KOCHENDERFER
KORNFELD
KRALOWEC
KREVANS
KROMM KUBIN KURTH LEVINE LEWIS LIN LITTLE MAC
CORMAC MACKLIN MCNAMARA MELBY MUCK MYLES
O’BRIEN PARKS PAYNE PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PIETRINI
POSNER PRUETZ
REED RESSLER RIECHERT ROSS
Debra Wong Yang
SAGER SAVITTGibson,
SCULL
SHELBY
SILVERMAN SILVERMAN
Dunn & Crutcher
LLP
Los Angeles
SMITH SPAGNOLI STRICKLAND STURDEVANT SUNGAILA
Practice type: Litigation, regulatory
TABACOPOULOS
TITLE
TODD
TORRES-GUILLEN
TOUGH
Specialty:
Crisis management,
strategic
counseling
VOGEL WASSER WEISS WINNER YANG YATES ABELL
ver the past month, Yang saw one matter she’s involved in explored on “60 Minutes;” anARGUEDAS
BACA
BARBOUR
BERINGER
BORELLI
other showed
up regularly in the Wall Street
Journal; the New York Times
wrote about a
third; and a fourth made Dr. Phil’s TV show.
BOSMAN BOXWELL
BRILL
BUNZEL
BURROW CABRASER
Yet she can’t
talk about any
of them.
“Most
of
what
I
work
on
is
confidential,”
Yang
said.
CANDIDO
CHAE
CHOPRA
CLARENCE
CONWAY
Yang co-chairs Gibson Dunn’s crisis management practice group and its white-collar defense
and investigations practice
group.
CROWTHER DARLING
DERMODY
DIAMOND DOOLITTLE
“If I do my job, it doesn’t come out,” she said, referring to information about her cases.
DUFFY
DUNN
DURIE
ESKENAZI
ESTRICH
FISHER
Beyond crises
and investigations,
Yang does
work on more typical litigation
and business matters,
particularlyFISHER
ones involving high-technology, health care and companies doing business in China.
FRANKLE
GILFORD
GLASER
HAAG
For instance, early last
month, she settled theGILLAM
first U.S. lawsuit against
the world’s largest cell
phone company,HELZER
China Mobile
Communications Corp., a dispute over software rights. Kapow Technologies Inc v. China Mobile Communications Corp., 2:11-cvHENRY
HERMLE HOLLANDER HOLLEY HOUSE JEFFRIES
09224 (C.D. Calif., filed Nov. 7, 2011).
“It was one of my smallerKANE
cases,” Yang said. KANTOR
JOHNSON
KEEFE
KELLER
KIM
Far more often, she is called on to advise companies planning to do business in foreign countries about how to stay out of
KOCHENDERFER
KORNFELD
KRALOWEC
KREVANS
trouble. An example might be a U.S. company
that wants to acquire a Russian
company, which has relationships
with various
vendors.
KROMM
KUBIN
KURTH
LEWIS
LIN
LITTLE
“The U.S. company
picks up those
risks” connected LEVINE
to the foreign vendors,
Yang said, such
as carrying
high levels ofMAC
cash.
She strategizes with her clients about ways to minimize problems.
CORMAC
MACKLIN MCNAMARA MELBY MUCK MYLES
Another common topic for her is how to do business in foreign countries without running afoul of the federal Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act.
O’BRIEN
PARKS PAYNE PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PIETRINI
Yang also regularly helps corporate clients respond to investigations or potential investigations by regulatory agencies, plus
POSNER
PRUETZ
RESSLER RIECHERT ROSS
“any other issues that
stem from regulatoryREED
matters,” she said.
“The bottom line is how it affects their business strategy and whether to change their business model.”
SAGER
SAVITT
SHELBY
A former Los
Angeles County SCULL
Superior Court judge,
Yang served as theSILVERMAN
U.S. attorney for the CentralSILVERMAN
District of California
from 2002 to 2006, the first Asian-American woman to be named an area’s top federal prosecutor.
SMITH
SPAGNOLI STRICKLAND STURDEVANT SUNGAILA
Her current work fits well with her law-enforcement background, she said. “I’m not defending anybody” in those matters, she
said. “I’m more telling them how you TITLE
go about doingTODD
business and comply
with U.S. law.”
TABACOPOULOS
TORRES-GUILLEN
TOUGH
— Don J. DeBenedictis
VOGEL
WASSER
WEISS
WINNER
YANG
YATES
TOP
WOMEN
LAWYERS
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