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Sung-Hee Suh, a partner in the New York office, practices in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and securities regulatory enforcement, internal investigations, anti-money laundering compliance, and complex commercial litigation. Her recent white-collar criminal and regulatory matters include representing a fund manager in pension fund-related “pay-to-play” investigations by the New York Attorney General’s Office and the SEC; conducting an internal investigation for a global telecommunications company into possible Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) violations; representing an interdealer brokerage firm in a FINRA investigation into certain brokerage practices and also in parallel criminal and regulatory investigations into alleged market manipulation of the stock of various financial institutions; defending a former senior vice president of Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd. in an SEC enforcement action alleging accounting fraud; defending a former in-house attorney at Hollinger International Inc. in a federal criminal prosecution for alleged mail and wire fraud involving non-competition payments; and representing a major securities firm in an investigation into possible Martin Act violations, tax evasion and money laundering. Her recent work in civil cases includes representing Merck’s former chief scientist in numerous Vioxx-related securities, products liability, ERISA and shareholder derivative actions throughout the country, and obtaining the voluntary dismissal of a putative class action against a fund of funds manager in connection with the failure of the Bayou hedge funds.
Sung-Hee is a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Law School. Prior to joining SRZ, she was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Carter, United States District Judge of the Southern District of New York, and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, including as Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. For her work at the U.S. Attorney's Office, she was awarded the Stimson Medal for Outstanding Contributions by the New York City Bar Association.
Selected Publications
“Specific Corporate Compliance Challenges by Practice Area: Money Laundering,” The Corporate Compliance Practice Guide: The Next Generation (Basrim ed. 2009) (co-author)
“Ninth Circuit OKs Coordinated Civil/Criminal Probes,” New York Law Journal, April 16, 2008 (co-author)
“Four Words That Can End Your Career: How a Single E-Mail Can Lead to Criminal Charges, Civil Sanctions and Disbarment,” Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal, Winter 2008 (co-author)
“Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Broker-Dealers,” Practising Law Institute, Broker-Dealer Regulation (co-author)
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Selected Speaking Engagements
“Conducting the Investigation,” PLI Internal Investigations 2010: How to Protect Your Clients or Company, June 2010
“Advancing and Retaining Ethnic & Racial Diversity,” Federal Bar Council, May 2010
“Anti-Money Laundering,” PLI Financial Services Industry Regulatory Compliance & Ethics Forum 2009, New York, November 2009
“Lessons Learned from Enforcement Actions,” Institutional Investor/Compliance Reporter 3rd Annual Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorist Financing Forum, New York, October 2008
“Best Practices in Light of Charges Against Cioffi and Tannin,” in-house program for global financial institution, New York, July 2008
“Dissecting Recent Enforcement Cases: What Lessons Can Be Learned to Protect Your Firm?,” Institutional Investor/Compliance Reporter 2nd Annual AML & Counter-Terrorist Financing Forum, November 2007
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Memberships
New York Council of Defense Lawyers
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Judiciary Committee
Federal Bar Council, Program Committee
American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Division
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Asian American Bar Association of New York
Board of Directors, Brennan Center for Justice
Board of Directors, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
1992-94, 2001-08
Other Distinctions
The Stimson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to the Office of the United States Attorney, presented by the New York City Bar Association
The Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney presented by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Education
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Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1990
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Harvard University, A.M., 1986
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Harvard/Radcliffe College, A.B., cum laude, 1986
Prior Experience
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York,
Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1994-99
Deputy Chief, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, 1998-99
Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1991-94
Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Carter, U.S. District Court, Southern
District of New York, 1990-91