Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat.
When it’s so lucrative to cheat.
We counsel both corporations and individuals in corporate related offences. The developing regulatory regime in China continues to generate challenges for those seeking to establish or expand their presence there. With our unrivalled depth of knowledge of doing business in China, we regularly assist clients with regulatory problems – from investigations to internal audit. This has involved not only dealing with the regulators and in the crisis management that regulatory work necessitates, but in interviews, and the defence of prosecutions in court. The same applies to our experience of representation at the ICAC and Commercial Crimes Bureau in Hong Kong.
How we can help
- Corporate defence / corporate compliance
- Criminal breach of trust, insider trading, forgery, fraud and securities related offences
- Customs and excise offences
- Foreign exchange control related offences
- Liquor licensing board cases
- Traffic offences
- Immigration offences
- Gaming
Representative experience
Lead counsel to a Fortune 500 company in connection with alleged tax crimes against its PRC unit and advise on managing exposure of senior officers to corresponding sanctions of fines and imprisonment. We counseled on the strategy, collated the evidence and structured the defence against liability with alternative cogent mitigation circumstances at both the first instance and appellate level, resulting in forgoing of possible charges against individual officers and withdrawal of the appeal by the prosecution
Successfully using Hong Kong judicial process to freeze bank accounts and prosecute senior mainland management of a conglomerate business in connection of embezzlement and fraud by employees
Advised a European based luxury brand on prosecution of bribery offences against supplier, advising on procedural and legal aspects of prosecution and defence against potential claims of supplier
- Arthur Hugh Clough English poet