Carla Sung Ah Yoon

About Carla Sung Ah Yoon

Carla is an associate in our Dispute Resolution Group, based in Washington D.C.

Her practice focuses on commercial and investor-State arbitrations, as well as domestic litigation in state and federal courts. She has represented clients in arbitration under ICSID, UNCITRAL, CPR, and JAMS rules and in a wide variety of sectors, including financial services, oil and gas, mining, and biotech. 

Carla received a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and an oralist on the school's Jessup Moot Court Competition Team.

Prior to entering private practice, Carla worked for humanitarian and refugee assistance non-profit organizations in Egypt and Uganda.

Recent work

• Representing an international oil and gas company in a $1 billion arbitration against a West African state-owned company arising under a joint venture agreement.
• Representing a major biotechnology company in a multi-million dollar arbitration arising out of a collaboration agreement with another major biotechnology company.
• Representing multiple international companies in proceedings to recognize and enforce arbitral awards in the United States.
• Advising a pioneering biotechnology company in the meat substitutes industry on supply agreement with another major biotechnology company.
• Advising a global tech company on the current and evolving sanctions landscape stemming from the Russia/Ukraine conflict.
• Representing Afghan and Iraqi special immigrant visa applicants in a class action against the U.S. government.
• Representing asylum seekers in U.S. Immigration Court.