Debra Wong Yang

Debra Wong Yang is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office. She is co-chair of the firm's Crisis Management, Information Security and Data Privacy, and White Collar Defense and Investigations groups and nationally known for her experience handling high-profile corporate crime and compliance matters. She has served as an Independent Monitor of a major orthopedic device manufacturer following an industry-wide government investigation and settlement. She also represents companies and boards in internal investigations, compliance matters and criminal investigations and advises clients on matters relating to FCPA, securities fraud, trade secrets and cyber/data intrusions.  Ms. Wong Yang previously served as the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. After her appointment in 2002, Ms. Yang was selected to serve on President George W. Bush's Corporate Fraud Task Force and to chair the Attorney General's Advisory Committees on Cyber/Intellectual Property and Civil Rights. She was appointed by the Attorney General to sit on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and on the Intellectual Property Task Force. Before being appointed United States Attorney, Ms. Wong Yang was a California state judge. Prior to that, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney handling violent crimes, white collar crimes, arson and computer crimes. Ms. Yang received her J.D. in 1985 from Boston College Law School and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California