Sylvia Chin is a Partner of Counsel at White & Case's New York office. She is experienced in corporate and commercial financings with an emphasis on asset-based financing transactions. She started the firm's Asian Affinity Network and serves on the firm's New York Women's Alliance Leadership Council.

She was a member of the first Board of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and served as President from 1994 to 1996. She is currently President of the Asian American Law Fund of New York, the nonprofit arm of AABANY, and also serves on AABANY's Anti-Asian Violence Task Force. Her recent work with the Task Force includes acting as Co-Executive Editor of AABANY's 2022 report, Endless Tide: The Continuing Struggle to Overcome Anti-Asian Hate in New York. Her current project is assisting on a video of voices against anti-Asian violence.

Sylvia was appointed DEI Officer of the ABA's Business Law Section and is a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono, the ABA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council, and the ABA Fund for Justice and Education Council. She also serves on the Pro Bono Committees of AABANY and the New York County Lawyers Association and as Co-Chair of the First Judicial District of the NY Bar Foundation. She teaches secured transactions as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and is a member of the American Law Institute.