Yang Chen is one of the founding partners of Constantine Cannon, a firm specializing in antitrust and trade regulation litigation and counseling. Mr. Chen was admitted to practice in 1991 before the courts of the State of New York, and the United States District Court in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. (Note: Mr. Chen pronounces his first name "young.")

Mr. Chen concentrates his practice on antitrust and general commercial litigation. He helped to lead the team that successfully represented Liberty Cable, an alternative provider of cable television services in New York City, in a vigorously contested lawsuit against media giant Time Warner in a massive antitrust case alleging monopolization under federal and state antitrust laws, as well as common law and statutory claims. This case resulted in a favorable settlement for Liberty Cable following nearly five years of intense and heavy litigation.

Mr. Chen's antitrust experience has included counseling TV Guide on antitrust issues relating to magazine distribution. Mr. Chen has also litigated antitrust cases and provided antitrust counseling for various clients in the fields of publishing, healthcare, marketing, retailing and electronic funds transfer. Mr. Chen has litigated antitrust cases under the Sherman Act and the Robinson-Patman Act.

Mr. Chen has broad commercial litigation experience encompassing a wide range of issues, including the successful representation of a company based in Germany that arbitrated against the United Nations in connection with the provision of rations supplies to UN peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia and in Mozambique. Mr. Chen has been involved in administrative proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission relating to microwave licensing. Mr. Chen has also represented various corporations in employment matters involving claims of race, sex and age discrimination, in courts and before administrative agencies.

Mr. Chen graduated from New York University School of Law in 1990 and from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1987. As a law student, Mr. Chen interned in the New York State Attorney General's Antitrust Bureau, from May 1988 through April 1989, under the supervision of Lloyd Constantine, then Chief of the Antitrust Bureau. There, Mr. Chen worked on various cases including In re Insurance Antitrust Litigation, 723 F. Supp. 464 (N.D.Cal. 1989), rev'd and remanded, 938 F.2d 919 (9th Cir. 1991), aff'd in part, rev'd in part and remanded, sub nom. Hartford Fire Ins. v. California, 509 U.S. 764 (1993). Prior to joining Constantine Cannon in June 1994, Mr. Chen was associated with the New York office of McDermott, Will & Emery, and with Breed, Abbott & Morgan. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Chen was appointed Special Pro Bono Counsel for the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department to investigate allegations of attorney misconduct.

Mr. Chen is a member of the American Bar Association, Antitrust Section. From September 1996 through June 1999, Mr. Chen served as Secretary to the Committee on Second Circuit Courts of the Federal Bar Council. Mr. Chen is a member of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) and served on its Board from 2003-04 and in 2006 as a Director. Mr. Chen served on AABANY's first judicial screening panel in 2003 and co-chaired the screening panel in 2004. Mr. Chen served as co-chair of the Judicial Affairs Committee of AABANY from 2005-06. Mr. Chen currently serves as AABANY's President.

Mr. Chen was selected by Law & Politics as a New York Super Lawyer for 2007. Click here to read announcement.

Mr. Chen is the co-author, with Stacey Anne Mahoney and Lloyd Constantine, of State Antitrust Law, 52-2nd C.P.S. (BNA 2003).