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Vice President Assistant

Location:
7310
Posted:
August 15, 2010

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Resume:

EDUCATION HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D., Cum Laude, ***9

Activity: Harvard Law Review, Member, Board of Editors,

****-****

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, M.A. in Psychology, 1995-1996 (GPA:

4.0/4.0)

B.A. with Distinction in Economics &

Psychology, 1992-1996 (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa junior year initiate (2% of

class)

President's Award for academic excellence (1.5% of

freshman class)

Omicron Delta Epsilon, Economics Honor Society / Psi

Chi, Psychology Honor Society

Publication: Co-author, "Emotion and Aging:

Experience, Expression, and Control,"

Psychology and Aging, Vol. 12, No. 4 (December 1997)

- an APA publication

Activity: Stanford Chamber Orchestra, Principal Oboist

EXPERIENCE

Feb 2006 - Present Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York, NY

Senior Associate - Derivatives and Finance

. Represented portfolio managers, banks and investors in

connection with embedded derivatives transactions,

synthetic CDOs, credit-linked notes and other structured

products offerings.

. Provided advice on credit derivatives and related

counterparty default issues.

. Represented lender and borrower in loan restructurings

and analysis of asset-based lending facilities.

. Negotiated ISDA master schedules, CSAs, confirmations

and repos on behalf of hedge funds.

. Chief Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez, U.S. Bankruptcy Court,

Southern District of New York

Sidebar Law Clerk (June 2009 - May 2010)

Wrote legal opinions and performed research in corporate

bankruptcy. Analyzed fraudulent conveyance, preference,

claim allowance, equitable subordination, plan

confirmation and other issues.

Aug 2005 - Nov 2005 JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY

Vice President and Assistant

General Counsel - Equity Derivatives

. Drafted ISDA confirmations and provided advice in

connection with PVF and collar transactions.

. Attended ISDA meetings on fund-linked definitions and

variance swaps.

Mar 2005 - Aug 2005 FrontPoint Partners LLC, Greenwich, CT

Vice President and Assistant

General Counsel - Derivatives and Prime Brokerage

. Negotiated ISDA master schedules, CSAs and prime

brokerage agreements with dealers.

. Provided advice and reviewed documentation for credit

and equity derivatives transactions.

Sep 2003 - Jan 2005 Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., New York, NY

Associate Director, Legal Department

. Drafted, negotiated and/or reviewed ISDA documentation

for structured derivatives transactions.

. Negotiated/reviewed related collateral and parent

guarantee arrangements.

. Analyzed collateral and netting opinions for risk

management purposes.

. Provided legal and documentation advice to marketers and

structurers.

Sep 2000 - Sep 2003 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY

Corporate Associate

. Commercial Finance/UCC: Drafted and/or negotiated

collateral agreements, guarantees, control agreements

and opinions for secured transactions, including

acquisition financings and securitizations.

. OTC Derivatives: Drafted or reviewed ISDA documentation

for interest rate and credit derivatives.

. Capital Markets/Structured Products: Represented issuers

in public offerings and private placements of equity-

linked, debt and structured securities. Prepared S-3

registration statements.

1999 - 2000 Law Clerk to The Honorable Charles Wiggins, U.S. Court of

Appeals, 9th Circuit, Las Vegas, NV

Summer 1998 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York /

Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco

BAR ADMISSION New York 2000

LANGUAGES Native fluency in Mandarin Chinese. Proficient in

Taiwanese.



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