Jane Yoon is Of Counsel in the Litigation practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Ms. Yoon represents corporate entities and their executives in connection with government and internal investigations into allegations of potential violations of the federal anti-kickback statute, health care fraud, the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act, HIPAA and the False Claims Act. These matters range from conduct surrounding patient support/assistance programs, specialty pharmacy arrangements, clinical trials and investigator-initiated studies, promotional communications, and the full range of interactions between manufacturers, prescribers, third-party vendors, patients, and payers. Ms. Yoon also handles matters relating to allegations of billing fraud, and Medicare risk adjustment practices under Medicare Advantage. A significant portion of her practice has been devoted to representing manufacturers, as well as senior principals, before the DOJ, HHS-OIG, various OIGs of federal agencies and state attorneys general. Ms. Yoon also devotes substantial time assisting companies with undertaking proactive risk assessments and compliance program reviews, preparing for potential enforcement and/or qui tam activity, and provides day-to-day compliance counseling advice on patient assistance programs and promotional practices.

Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Ms. Yoon was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Health Care and Government Fraud Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey for approximately seven years. Ms. Yoon led numerous investigations into health care fraud offenses, including investigations and prosecutions of fraud against the government and private health insurance plans, illegal kickback schemes, violations of the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, False Claims Act cases, and the improper diversion of prescription drugs. She also prosecuted and tried several complex tax fraud offenses and cases involving fraud against various government agencies and private entities, and investigated and prosecuted the one of the first federal criminal cases involving compounding pharmacy fraud in the United States. An experienced trial attorney, Ms. Yoon recently served as trial counsel to a former Deutsche Bank trading desk supervisor in a month-long criminal LIBOR manipulation trial before the Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York.