Yan Gao

Yan Gao is a licensed attorney with California and China, she was a lawyer working for the cross-border business litigation cases, and now she is an immigration & business law attorney who is passionate to help people.

Yan is an active member of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and a member of San Diego Chinese Attorneys Association (SDCAA). Her focus of practice is Business and Employment-based Immigration Law including EB-1(a), EB-1(b), EB-1(c), EB-5, NIW, PERM, and Non-immigrant Visas including H-1B, L-1, O-1, etc.

Yan is also a member of the Business Law Section of the California Bar Association, and practices Business Law, including Corporation, Partnership, LLC and LLP Formation, Ongoing Counseling & Dissolution; Counseling Regarding Purchase or Sale of a Business; Contract Drafting and Review, etc.

Prior to starting her own law firm, Yan’s experiences include many years of cross-border business litigation jobs at Herman Herman & Katz, LLC and Baron & Budd, P.C. The big law firm experiences have polished her research, writing, and interpersonal skills, and also made her to be a very competent, diligent and detail-oriented lawyer.

Yan graduated from China University of Political Science and Law with a Juris Master in International Economic Law (J.D. equivalent) in 2004; and then from Tulane University Law School as a Master of American Business Law, Graduate with Distinction in 2009. Yan is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English.

Before moving to the United States, Yan worked at Chinalawinfo Co. Ltd., and also had clerkship with the China’s Supreme People’s Court judges who handle appeal cases in business & commerce disputes.

Yan lives in the beautiful San Diego, with her husband and two adorable kids. She is also closely tied with San Diego Hunanese Association, and has been a dedicated volunteer to “Spark Foundation,” a charitable foundation to help the needy students in remote and poverty-stricken regions in China to have an opportunity for education.