Katherine Yang has fifteen years’ experience practicing at leading international law firms. Katherine assists multinational clients from a wide range of sectors, including large energy groups, mining groups, commodities trading companies, machinery manufacturers, pharma and medical device, foodstuff companies as well as media and entertainment groups. Her advice has been praised by clients as “extremely helpful”, “quick, knowledgeable and commercial advice”, “clear and comprehensive”.
Katherine’s practice covers regulatory advice on both commodity physical and derivatives trading and carbon emissions trading, corporate advice and transactions in respect of foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and VC/PE investments. In addition, Katherine also advises on various legal, regulatory and compliance issues of clients’ China business, such as import and export, employment, foreign exchange, unfair competition (false advertising, commercial bribery, etc.) and other general corporate matters.
Katherine obtained her bachelor and master law degrees from top Chinese and US law schools. She has been a member of the New York bar since 2010.