{"id":551,"date":"2025-02-20T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad25.aabany.org\/?page_id=551"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:11:52","slug":"gc-reception","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/gc-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"General Counsel Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thank you to our General Counsel Reception sponsor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AABANY looks forward to welcoming numerous General Counsels to join us at this year\u2019s Annual Dinner. We look forward to celebrating with them at the General Counsel Reception taking place immediately before the Annual Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street on May 28. To see who accepted our invitation last year, go here<\/a>.<\/a>

This reception is by invite-only<\/strong> to General Counsels and Annual Dinner 2026 sponsors.

If you would like to receive an invitation as a General Counsel or an Annual Dinner 2026 sponsor, send an email to ad26@aabany.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patricia Astorga
Chief Legal Officer <\/em>
Mintz Group<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Katelyn Canning
General Counsel
Ocrolus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Viravyne Chhim
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
MGG Investment Group LP<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ronald Chillemi
Chief Legal Officer
Figure<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Julie Cho
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary (Former) <\/em>
The New Terminal One at JFK<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jung Choi
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary<\/em>
Revelyst Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sumeet H. Chugani
General Counsel & CCO<\/em>
Cloaked<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ricky Chung
General Counsel & SVP<\/em>
Area 15<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lian Duan
General Counsel<\/em>
China Merchants Bank Co. New York Branch<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Judy Estes
EVP, General Counsel, Services & Strategic Growth
Mastercard<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lucy Fato
Executive VP & <\/em>
General Counsel<\/em>
Seaport Entertainment<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Grace Fu
Chief Legal Administrative Officer
Nanit<\/em>
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Sandhya Ganapathy Chief Legal Officer Privacore Capital<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Hahn
General Counsel Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Josh<\/strong> Hsu
General Counsel
Slingshot AI, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cindy Huang
General Counsel
Ether.Fi<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Audrey Jean
General Counsel <\/em>
3E Company<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica Jonas
Chief Legal Officer Evernorth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jonathan Jung
General Counsel <\/em>
Prinston Pharmaceutical<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tanny Kang
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Vibranium Labs<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Lee
Senior Vice President, Head of Legal, US
CNA<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Lee
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary<\/em>
MediaCo Holding Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paul Lee
Co-Founder <\/em>
Capro-X<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Linda Lin
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
SiriusPoint, Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Lo
Chief Legal Officer
MSG Entertainment and Sphere Entertainment<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kapil Longani
Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and General Counsel
State University of New York (SUNY)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stephen Mar
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer
Odeko<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Tang Rocha
Senior Vice President & General Counsel<\/em>
Christian Dior Couture and Parfums Christian Dior Americas<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Curtis Tao
General Counsel, US<\/em>
HSBC<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mathew C. Varughese
General Counsel & Secretary <\/em>
New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Vandana Venkatesh
EVP & Chief Legal Officer
Verizon<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kazuko An Wachter
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
EquiLend<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Henry Wang
Chief Legal Officer
Herbalife<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Osamu Watanabe
General Counsel<\/em>
Moelis<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Wei
Head of Legal <\/em>
(Former)
Octaura<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Wong
VP of Legal
Kashable<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Wu
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary <\/em>
Bath & Body Works<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Akiko Yamahara
General Counsel
Citi Global Wealth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andy Yoo
SVP & General Counsel (Former)<\/em>
Savvas Learning Co<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you to our General Counsel Reception sponsor: AABANY looks forward to welcoming numerous General Counsels to join us at this year\u2019s Annual Dinner. We look forward to celebrating with them at the General Counsel Reception taking place immediately before the Annual Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street on May 28. To see who accepted our invitation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad26.aabany.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}