Celebrating Kramer Levin

Kramer Levin has donated time and talent for more than 8 years to both our entrepreneur clients and small businesses. And the impact goes beyond individual clients – it uplifts their families, and the community. A key area of CAMBA’s work is to incubate and advance the entrepreneurial community – particularly our entrepreneurs of color, and especially as more generations are seeking to create ventures online, brick/mortar or combinations, as stand alone or in addition to traditional careers.

Accepting on behalf of Kramer Levin

Honoring United Health Foundation

Through collaboration with community partners, grants and outreach efforts, the United Health Foundation works to improve our health system, build a diverse and dynamic health workforce and enhance the well-being of local communities. We look forward to celebrating all that the United Health Foundation has done in support of building healthier communities to advance health equity – particularly their grant to CAMBA focused on reducing black maternal and infant morbidity rates in New York City.

Accepting on behalf of United Health Foundation

Christopher S. Auguste counsels and represents clients of Kramer Levin in the private placement or public offering of debt and equity securities. Chris represents underwriters and issuers in initial and secondary public offerings, private investment funds in their investment in public and private companies, and investment banks in structuring PIPEs, SPACs, shelf offerings and equity line transactions. He counsels public companies and their boards and management on corporate governance matters. He also represents financial institutions and issuers in structured financings.

Among his recent notable work, Chris served as U.S. securities counsel for an Israeli issuer in connection with a $200 million Rule 144A private offering of convertible senior notes. He also advised several sponsors in the formation of U.S. and Cayman Island long-short hedge funds and private equity funds. In addition, Chris advised a SPAC in completing its business combination with a pharmaceuticals company.

Chris is the president of the board of Goddard Riverside Community Center, which provides housing for senior citizens and the homeless, education centers for children, and college access and counseling for New York City high school students, among other services. He is the president and an alumnus of the Wadleigh Scholars Program, which helps talented eighth graders gain admission to boarding school. He also currently serves on the board of Uncommon Schools, a charter school system with elementary, middle and high schools in Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark, Rochester and Troy. Chris is a trustee on the board of Phillips Academy and is the chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee and co-chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

Anne Yau is senior vice president of Social Responsibility, UnitedHealth Group, and president of the United Health Foundation in September 2023. In this role, she leads the corporate social responsibility strategy, employee giving and volunteering programs, America’s Health Rankings platform and all philanthropic, charitable and grant-making efforts through the United Health Foundation.

Yau joined UnitedHealth Group in 2010 and has led numerous enterprise-wide efforts to advance the company’s policy and advocacy priorities, and social responsibility initiatives. Prior to UnitedHealth Group, Yau worked in management consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton and CGI serving commercial, state and federal clients including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and a master’s degree in public policy from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.