Yi is the in-house counsel at a real estate development company publicly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Prior to working as a corporate in-house counsel, she worked in private practice in New York City on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and issues related to corporate governance, shareholder rights and securities litigation. Yi is licensed to practice law in the U.S. and China. She clerked at the Supreme Court of People’s Republic of China. She is a contributor and writer-at-large covering American law and society for the Legal Weekly, the official newspaper of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission in China. Her publications have appeared in LexisNexis and SupChina, a New York-based, China-focused news, information, and business services platform.