Alice Young

Alice Young is a Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice at Kaye Scholer LLP International Law Firm. She advises multinationals and entrepreneurs on their business activities and investment considerations in the United States and throughout Asia, including complex cross-border transactions and sensitive legal and governmental strategies, and compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") 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, Asia Foundation and Give2Asia; Associate Fellow of Davenport College, Yale University; and Chair of the Deloitte & Touche Diversity External 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 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. Harvard Law School, J.D.; Yale University, A.B., magna cum laude; Honors with Distinction, Bates Fellow