Sonya Tien
Corporate & Litigation Attorney
Sonya Tien is a strategic litigation, corporate and IP attorney. She was recognized as a Rising Star in Super Lawyers 2020 and her articles have been published by the Wall Street Lawyer and Practising Law Institute.
Before founding Tien Law Firm, Ms. Tien practiced law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson with a focus on corporate transactions, corporate compliance, SEC & DOJ enforcement, real estate, and commercial litigation, where she assisted in representing a variety of real estate and bank clients, such as Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Oppenheimer, CBRE, and Tishman Speyer.
Ms. Tien received her law degree from Columbia University, and was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Ms. Tien received her business degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan Flagler Business School, and earned seventeen undergraduate scholarships.
Ms. Tien leads the litigation and corporate practice, to advise clients across various industries, boards of directions, and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including merger and acquisitions, corporate governance, IP transactions, and joint ventures.
- Personal Injury
- Business Law
- Intellectual Property
- Securities Law
- Real Estate Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Compliance
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 5009279
- North Carolina
- North Carolina State Bar
- ID Number: 45685
- United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
- United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
- United States District Court, Southern District of New York
- Founder & Managing Attorney
- Tien Law Firm, PC
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- Litigation Associate
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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- Summer Associate
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- B.S.B.A.
- Honors: Awarded 17 Scholarships & Dean's List
- Columbia Law School
- J.D.
- Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers
- North Carolina Advocates for Justice
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- Tenth Judicial District
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- North Carolina State Bar
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- North Carolina Bar Association
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- New York State Bar Association
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- New York County Lawyers' Association
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- American Bar Association
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- SEC Cooperation Update: 2102 Year-End Review
- Wall Street Lawyer
- Recent Developments in the SEC Cooperation Initiative
- PLI - Practising Law Institute
- Speaker , Fried Frank , New York, NY
- When Is a Company Required to Disclose Receipt of a Wells Notice?
- Speaker , Fried Frank CLE , New York, NY
- How to Draft an Employment Agreement
