ayoung@kayescholer.com
New York
T: (212) 836-8047
F: (212) 836-8689
Ms. Young has been based in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo and speaks Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and French. She is a member of the Board of Directors and on the Executive and Examining Committees of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. (USA); Trustee of the Aspen Institute, American Assembly and Asia Foundation; Associate Fellow of Davenport College, Yale University; and member of the Deloitte & Touche Diversity Advisory Board. Ms. Young is a member of the Chairman's Forum of the Council on Foreign Relations, Committee of 100, Asia Society, the US-China Business Council and Japan Society. Ms. Young was a special guest of the White House to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum and has served as an advisor to the US Department of Commerce. In 1999 she was a guest of the People's Republic of China on the occasion of its Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration in Beijing and has attended State Dinners at the White House honoring various Chinese leaders.
Ms. Young is listed with Who's Who, Crain's in their list of the "Top 100 Minority Executives" (one of only three corporate lawyers named), by Avenue Asia magazine as one of the five most influential Asian-American corporate lawyers in the United States, and by Harvard Law Bulletin as one of the top 50 women graduates of Harvard Law School. In 1989 she was named by Crain's as one of the "40 Outstanding Achievers Under 40," and received the "New York Doers" Award. In 1992, she received from New York Women's Agenda a Star Award for outstanding corporate and civic achievements, and in 1994 was honored by the New York University Law School, Journal of Corporate and International Law. In 2004, she was presented the "Justice in Action" Award by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and was a Guest Speaker in the Harvard University Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speakers' Series. Ms. Young was selected from among the top women attorneys in the United States to be a member of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law's 2008 DirectWomen Board Institute.
She frequently lectures on business, law and foreign policy issues and has appeared internationally on CNN, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, PBS (The Charlie Rose Show and Wide Angle), ABC Nightline, Fuji TV, and China Television Network on these subjects. She has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Newsweek, The National Law Journal, Where They Are Now: The Story of Women of Harvard Law 1974 (Doubleday, 1986) and Working Women for the 21st Century (Williamson Publishing, 1991).
Ms. Young was in the first class of women graduates of Yale College, where she majored in East Asian Studies and received a Bates Fellowship to study in Japan under Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. At Harvard Law School, she was a member of the East Asian Legal Studies Program and was a research assistant and advisor to the Admissions Committee.
Prior to joining Kaye Scholer, Ms. Young was a partner and Head of the Japan Corporate Practice at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Prior to joining Milbank, Ms. Young was the Founding and Resident Managing Partner of the New York office of Graham & James, a California law firm. Ms. Young started her legal career at Coudert Brothers.
