Board of Directors
Stacey Kim is an associate and member of Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and the Compliance, Regulatory and Payments Group. She advises banks, finance companies, fintechs, and other financial institutions on regulatory and compliance matters, payment processing, service agreements, and related transactions. Stacey is an active member of the Korean American Bar Association, AABA and co-chair of AABA’s Mentorship Committee. Stacey earned her JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School and BA from Duke University.
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Tae focuses his practice on commercial litigation and disputes, while also serving in an outside general counsel role for businesses from a wide range of industries. Tae has litigated “bet the company” cases across the country – being licensed to practice in U. S. Court of Appeals for the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and D.C. Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court – and has led negotiations for complex, international deals with companies on Forbes Global 2000 list. Tae has a passion for mentoring law students and junior attorneys, and he currently serves as Co-Chair of AABA’s mentorship committee. Tae has also has previously served on the Board for the Public Interest Law Initiative, and as a Mentor for the Cook County Bar Association’s Juvenile Justice Mentorship Initiative. Tae received his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law (magna cum laude) and received his B.A. from the University of Florida. |
Kim is a staff attorney for the Asian Law Caucus' National Democracy Initiative. Kim works with community organizations and nonprofits on voting rights and civic engagement. She has experience investigating, litigating, and advocating against violations of voting rights and election laws. She earned her J.D from the University of Wisconsin, where she interned at the Wisconsin Innocence Project. She received her B.A from the University of Michigan. Kim grew up in a multilingual and limited-English-speaking household, and is passionate about the intersections of language and disability access, and racial justice. Kim lives in Chicago, Illinois. She serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC), the professionals board for CARPLS legal aid, and the board for the Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago. |
Elaine Liu is a Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement partner at Mayer Brown. She focuses primarily on litigation relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), in addition to her complementary substantive experience in labor & employment and a wide range of other complex litigation and investigations, such as those involving fraud, the False Claims Act, and consumer protection. Elaine has significant experience at all stages of litigation, whether in briefing and arguing dispositive motions, conducting fact and expert discovery, or representing clients at trial. In particular, Elaine has deep knowledge of electronic discovery and information governance, which is critical to overseeing expansive e-discovery in litigation, conducting forensic data investigations, and advising clients on best practices for managing ESI. Moreover, leveraging her background in economics, as well as a management consultant advising major corporations, private equity funds, and other investment firms on business strategy, Elaine has extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary expert teams and developing damages models to support litigation. Elaine received her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and served as Editor-in-Chief and a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbia Business Law Review. Elaine received her AB cum laude with High Honors in Economics from Harvard University. |
Jaz Park serves as assistant general counsel for the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Her fifteen years’ experience in labor and employment law include the investigation, mediation, and litigation of cases involving race and gender discrimination, wage and hour disputes, non-compete agreements, and whistleblowing. Previously, Jaz was an employee relations manager with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, as well as a lecturer on Employment Litigation at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she earned her JD in its Labor and Employment Law program. She is also an alumna of Brown University for her BA and Chicago Public Schools K-12. Outside of her practice, Jaz currently serves as the President of the Korean American Bar Association (KABA) and Co-Chair of the Minority Bar CLE Conference, and previously, she has served as Vice President of the Korean American Association of Chicago. |
Romeo Quinto is a former biglaw litigation partner who represented some of the largest financial services, life sciences, and transportation companies in antitrust and complex business disputes for over 20 years. He now dedicates his time teaching trial advocacy across the country for NITA and appellate advocacy for Chicagoland law schools, mentoring law students and junior attorneys with a special interest in helping those who are diverse and/or first-generation lawyers, and most importantly enjoying time with his family especially while traveling internationally. Romeo earned a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2000 and then clerked for the Hon. David D. Dowd, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the N.D. Ohio before starting private practice. |
Saranya Raghavan is a Partner at Winston & Strawn. She focuses her trial practice on all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent litigation. She has years of experience counseling clients in connection with patent disputes. Her clients are companies in various high-tech and medical industries, including networking, telecommunications, semiconductor, computer hardware, cloud computing, and medical devices. Saranya is a Past President of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of Chicago. Prior to her legal career, Saranya was a software engineer for a leading online travel agency. Saranya received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, her M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida Tech. |
Elbert specializes in commercial real estate, residential real estate, and corporate law. He has a proven track record of success in both legal and business capacities, working with various governmental entities, private businesses, and individual owners. His clients include commercial developers, investors, national homebuilders, private equity firms, and institutional and hard money lenders. Elbert frequently advises clients on general corporate matters such as operating agreements, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, investment and joint venture portfolios, private financing, construction and permanent loans, management oversight, operations control of external joint venture partners, regulatory compliance and reporting, consulting and employment arrangements, severance and non-competition agreements, asset and stock sales and purchase agreements, loan documentation, and loan restructuring. Elbert also has extensive experience in the acquisition, disposition, and development of all types of real estate projects. This includes land banking transactions, drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, public-private partnerships, anchor leases, in-line leases, ground leases, subleases, master leases, outparcel leases, lease amendments, recognition agreements, SNDAs/NDAs, REAs, ECRs, and OEAs. Additionally, Elbert is skilled in overseeing the preparation of RFP responses, government oral presentations, and all aspects of contract implementation and administration post-award. |
Elbert RenivaShannon Shin is a Partner at Dentons, where she represents and advises clients across a broad range of sectors in complex commercial litigation, appellate advocacy, and internal and government investigations. She has broad experience litigating a wide variety of disputes, including in the areas of commercial real estate, financial services, complex insurance coverage, loan enforcement, product liability, transportation and general business disputes. Shannon also conducts corporate internal investigations and provides legal counsel to companies that are the target of state attorneys general investigations, and represents clients responding to federal and state regulatory actions and other inquiries. Her work also includes internal investigations of sexual misconduct. Shannon also dedicates a portion of her practice to pro bono matters. She co-authored a U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae brief in support of petitioners in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, has represented prisoners in Section 1983 civil rights litigation, and represented a class of individuals with disabilities desiring to live in community-based settings instead of nursing facilities. Crain's Chicago Business recognized Shannon as a member of its 2022 class of Notable Women in Law, and The Legal 500 recognized her in the area of Transport: Rail and Road - Litigation and Regulation in 2023. She is 2024 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and was a Fellow of the 2019 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Leadership Advancement Program. Shannon co-chairs the Dentons Asian, South Asian, Pacific-American Professionals ("ASAPP") affinity group, and is a member of NAPABA, the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago, and the Korean American Bar Association of Chicago. She has served on the Ravinia Festival Associates Board, and was President of the Lyric Opera Young Professionals Board. |
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