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Ms. Chung’s main practice areas are complex business litigation and white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations.  She has conducted numerous criminal and civil trials and has briefed and argued dozens of cases on appeal.

For twelve years, from 1991 to 2003, Ms. Chung worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she served in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions.  While Chief of Criminal Appeals, in 2001 and 2002, she oversaw all criminal litigation of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  As a civil lawyer for the government, from 1991 to 1995, she has litigated complex tax, bankruptcy, tort, labor, and environmental matters.  From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Chung worked as a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Court, prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of the Sudan, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  During her tenure at that court in The Hague, Ms. Chung was the highest-ranking American professional. 

Representing federal agency FHFA, conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in cases alleging that leading mortgage loan originators and investment banks, including Bank of America, Countrywide, and Credit Suisse, violated securities laws by misstating the quality of loans underlying mortgage-backed securitizations.

Defending the board of directors of the The Dakota, the New York City apartment building, in a discrimination suit brought by former board president and hedge fund manager Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. 

Representing monoline insurer MBIA in an action based on fraud and breaches of contract by GMAC Mortgage, LLC based upon fraud and contractual breaches in connection with over $4 billion of RMBS securitizations.

Counsel for former officers and employees of major hotel company in federal grand jury investigation for alleged theft of trade secrets and in related civil litigation.

Representing leading household goods manufacturer in a series of product liability suits brought in state courts in the Northeast.

Representing Iranian-American in appeal to Second Circuit Court of Appeals from conviction on charges of violating the Iran Trade Regulations, sanctions enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets  Control.

Representing Bahraini bank in civil litigation in New York State Supreme Court and U.S. bankruptcy court arising from disputes between two of Saudi Arabia’s biggest family owned companies.
 

Representing major international insurer in fraud action brought by an institutional investor in notes issued by a synthetic CDO, the insurer’s counterparty in a credit default swap.