Mrs. Chin's is a partner in the Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Group. Her practice involves corporate and commercial financing with an emphasis on asset-based financing transactions.

In the areas of project financing and leveraged leases, Mrs. Chin has represented lenders, lessees, lessors and equity investors in leases involving aircraft, oil-drilling equipment, satellites and other equipment and in projects involving cogeneration, waste-to-energy, alternative energy, hydroelectric and manufacturing facilities.

Mrs. Chin also has extensive experience in asset securitizations and has advised issuers, investors, placement agents, credit enhancers and fiduciaries in connection with the securitizations of aircraft, microfinance loans, project loans, credit cards, auto receivables, equipment and real estate leases and other assets.

She has handled a variety of other corporate matters including debt private placements, 144A offerings, letters of credit, high yield bond deals, corporate and partnership organizations, reorganizations and asset acquisitions.

Among the structured finance transactions in which Mrs. Chin has participated are:

• US$340 million securitization of interests in project finance loans representing the financial guaranty insurer.
• Aviation Capital Group's acquisition of Boullioun Aviation and its subsequent US$1.8 billion securitization of 74 aircraft leased to 45 lessees in 28 countries.
• Carlisle Lease International's loan and lease financings secured by refrigerated shipping containers and related lease receivables including a US$600 million securitization.
• Leveraged lease financings of solar energy electric generating facilities, geothermal generating facilities, headquarters facilities, manufacturing facilities and equipment, fiber-optic telecommunications segments, microwave telecommunications equipment and satellites.
• Lease financings involving French credit bail, municipal debt and undivided interests.

As Corporate Administrative Partner at White & Case, Mrs. Chin supervised the reorganization of the Corporate Department in the New York office and the development of an intensive training program for attorneys. She is also a frequent speaker at seminars on the UCC, legal opinions, ethics and various other corporate finance topics.

Mrs. Chin was also an adjunct associate professor at Fordham University School of Law and served as a law clerk to Hon. Lawrence W. Pierce in the Southern District of New York.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1978
US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1979
US Supreme Court, 1988

Clerkships
Hon. Lawrence W. Pierce, US District Court for the Southern District of New York

Education
JD, Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, Associate Editor, Law Review, 1977
BA, Journalism and East Asian Studies, New York University, cum laude, 1971

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Law Institute
American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
Tribar Opinion Committee
ABA Legal Opinions Committee
ABA Project Finance Committee, Vice Chair
ABA Women’s Business Law Network Subcommittee, Chair
NY Bar Foundation, First Judicial District, Co-chair
NYS Bar Association House of Delegates
New York County Lawyers Association, Director 2004-2007
Asian American Law Fund of New York, Treasurer
Women's World Banking, Trustee and Board Secretary 1990-2008
NAPABA Law Foundation, Director; President 2005-2006
American College of Investment Counsel, President, 2002-2003
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Treasurer, 1997-1998
Asian American Bar Association of New York, Director, 1991-1997 and President, 1994-1996
Fordham Law Alumni Association, Corresponding Secretary

Awards and Recognition
2008 CLEO Legacy Diversity Award
Guide to World's leading Securitization and Structured Finance Lawyers
Leonard F. Manning Achievement Award from Fordham Law Review, 1999
NAPABA Northeast Region Trailblazer Award, 1999
Fordham Law Women Distinguished Alumna Award 1997
Pace Law School AALSA Achievement Award, 1996

Publications
Co-author of chapter on Third Party Beneficiaries in Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate, ALM Publishing, May 2003
Author of chapter on Lease Syndication in Equipment Leasing, Matthew Bender & Co. (2011)
Co-author of “Representing Buyers and Sellers in the Sale of Goods” in Negotiating Business Transactions, John Wiley & Sons (1988)
Member of Editorial Board, Business Law Today, Magazine of ABA Section of Business Law, 1996-2002

Speaking Engagements
January 25, 2012, New York: Sylvia Chin (New York) gave a presentation on “Selected Ethical Issues in Law Firm Practice" at the 5th Annual PALS Retreat for New Associates of Color.
October 25, 2011, New York: Sylvia Chin (New York) moderated a panel on “Opinions Addressing the Enforceability of Mandatory Choice-of-Forum Clauses” at the ABA Working Group on Legal Opinions Fall Seminar. The presentation included a “Discussion Paper on Choice of Forum,” co-authored with Benjamin Rose (New York).
August 8, 2011, Toronto: Sylvia Chin (New York) spoke as a panelist on "Bridging Borders: Trends in Canadian-U.S. Business Financings" at the ABA Business Law Section annual meeting.
August 6, 2011, Toronto: Sylvia Chin (New York) spoke as a panelist on "Secrets of Success in Project Finance in Emerging Markets" at the ABA Business Law Section annual meeting.
April 15, 2011, Boston: Sylvia Chin (New York) spoke as a panelist on "Giving Outbound Cross Border Opinions" at the ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting.

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States