LABONI HOQ
LABONI HOQ is the litigation director at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, where she leads APALC’s impact litigation efforts. Prior to that, she was an associate at two civil rights law firms, and a litiga- tion associate at Sidley Austin
LLP in Los Angeles. Hoq graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in 1996, Cambridge University with a M. Phil. in 1998, and Columbia Law School with a J.D. in 2001. In 2001, she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to South Africa to clerk on its Constitutional Court and conduct research on indigenous land rights. Hoq has been listed in the Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine® - Rising Stars edition since 2008.
KOBAYASHI NAHO
NAHO KOBAYASHI is a partner in the Debt Finance Department at McGuireWoods LLP in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee. She regularly represents lenders in complex senior financings involv- ing companies in the healthcare, timberlands/forest products and
media/telecommunications industries. Kobayashi is a member of MAP-Bar (the Asian-American bar association for Mecklenburg County), and the board of trustees for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; prior to moving to North Carolina in 2007, she served as vice presi- dent of and board member-at-large for the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Kobayashi is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (B.A., High Honors) and the Duke University School of Law (J.D., cum laude) and was a 2006/2007 Georgia Superlawyers Rising Star.
PEGGY HO
PEGGY HO is Senior Vice President, Associate Counsel, with LPL Financial where she supports the company’s corporate
initiatives, including securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. She was the lead attorney in the company’s success- ful IPO in 2010. Previously, she was an associate with Ropes & Gray, where she concentrated on private equity debt financings. Ho currently serves as co-president of the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts and has served on its board since 2009. She previously served as host commit- tee co-chair for the 2009 NAPABA national convention. Ho earned a J.D. from Georgetown University, an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. She is married and has two young sons.
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MELISSA HO
MELISSA HO is a shareholder at Polsinelli Shughart in Phoenix, Arizona. She practices in the areas of government
investigations and white-collar crimi- nal defense representing and advising individuals and corporations who are targets of complex governmental and regulatory investigations. Ho is a registered patent attorney and a former felony crimes prosecutor. Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, she is actively involved with Asian and Asian Pacific American communities. She is past-president of the Arizona Asian American Bar Association, Commissioner of the City of Phoenix Pacific Rim Advisory Council, and sits on a number of State Bar com- mittees and sections. Ho is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Barrett’s Honor College and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law.
BLOSSOM KAN
BLOSSOM KAN is an assistant gen- eral counsel at MetLife. Kan’s focus is on disputes relating to the sale or per- formance of
life insurance products, annuities, and investments. Kan also handles FINRA, SEC and state regulatory matters, advises on enhancements to compliance, mitigates litigation risk, and works on public filings and disclosures. Prior to joining MetLife, Kan was at the law firms of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe. Kan is a member of the board of directors of PALS, which provides mentor- ship to diverse law students. Kan is a graduate of Yale University and NYU Law School. She has also co-authored two novels published by St. Martin’s Press, China Dolls and Young, Restless and Broke.
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