Ying Cao

About

Ying Cao is the founder of Ying Cao Law LLC ("YC Law") located in the New York metropolitan area, USA.  Before founding YC Law, Ms. Cao worked in the prestigious Wall Street law firm - Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and law firms in Times Square in New York City for eight years, including Pryor Cashman LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP where she has acquired extensive experience in structuring multinational companies, cross border investments, representing Chinese companies to submit applications to Federal and State governments, dealing with regulatory inquiries, negotiating, drafting contracts and resolving commercial disputes, etc.  These experiences have laid a solid foundation for her to serve her current clients who are high net worth individuals petitioning for U.S. permanent resident status and Chinese companies expanding business in the US.
Since founding YC Law, in the practice area of investment immigration, Ms. Cao has successfully represented several Chinese investors to conduct due diligence of EB-5 regional center projects, analyze risks, guide clients to prepare source of funds documents, prepare and submit applications to USCIS. In the practice area of business immigration, Ms. Cao is representing clients headquartered in China, India and Pakistan to form US subsidiaries and apply for L-1 visas to send their intra-company executive transferees or transferees with specialized knowledge to work in the US.  In addition to applying for H-1B work visas for the employees of hi-tech startup companies, Ms. Cao and her team have successfully gained experience in representing clients with extraordinary ability in the fields of sciences, sports and business to apply for EB-1 immigration visa or O-1 nonimmigrant work visa.  In the practice area of real estate, Ms. Cao has closed commercial and residential real estate transactions, negotiated commercial lease and attended township planning board hearings of use variance applications.  In addition, Ms. Cao is actively engaging in giving back to her community by providing pro bono legal service to several NJ non-profit organizations, such as applying for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status and providing general corporate advice.
Ms. Cao was born and grew up in Beijing, China.  She receives B.A. in 1993 from Beijing Foreign Studies University, M.S. in 1999 from University of Michigan and J. D. with honors in 2006 from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.  She was offered an Associate position to join a prestigious Wall Street law firm (ranking the 3rd in US) a year prior to her graduation.  Ms. Cao is licensed to practice law in both New York and New Jersey, and is admitted to practice in the Federal District Courts for the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York.  She is able to advise clients in both English and Chinese.