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All Things Investigations: Episode 9 – Anti-Corruption Enforcement in China and France with Bryan Sillaman and Christine Kang

 

Welcome to the Hughes Hubbard Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations Practice Group’s Podcast, All Things Investigations. In this podcast, host Tom Fox along with Bryan Sillaman and Christine Kang of the Hughes Hubbard Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations Practice Group, highlight some of the key legal issues involved in white collar investigations, locally and internationally. 

 

 

Christine Kang is a Hughes Hubbard partner at the firm’s New York office specializing in international arbitration, multilateral development banks investigation, compliance, and litigation. She has practiced in China for over 20 years, helping CEOs with compliance issues. Bryan Sillaman is Managing Partner at Hughes Hubbard’s Paris office and works with French and European companies on compliance matters. Formerly, he was an attorney in the Division of Enforcement at the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Key areas we discuss on this podcast are:

  • US companies should know the top things about anti-bribery and anti-corruption enforcement in China in 2022.
  • What China’s anti-corruption enforcement looks like in the healthcare sector.
  • Under China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), you must first pass a security evaluation under the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) before transferring data overseas.
  • The concept of companies proactively cooperating with the authorities by providing the information is still new in France. 
  • How the French component of Airbus enforcement action affected French prosecutors.
  • The French blocking statute was designed to force US authorities through MLAT to get information.

Resources

Hughes Hubbard & Reed website 

Christine Kang on LinkedIn

Bryan Sillaman on LinkedIn

 

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