The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to a half-day conference examining the whole range of issues surrounding international compliance with a highly practical spin. It will take place on Thursday, 21 March 2013, from 8:30am to 12pm.

Fraud risk management needs to involve different departments’ cooperation, such as internal audit, compliance, finance, legal, etc. Same goals, different obligations. Recent settlements of FCPA have included new compliance program requirements for a company to conduct proactive audits of high-risk areas. It is a new and growing area for compliance. Corporate fraud risk management will be much more challenging than before. Therefore, multinational players need to examine recent topics involving fraud cases in terms of different functions and industries, and pay close attention to their business transactions, particularly when they are conducting communications through intermediaries, working through joint ventures and engaging in M&A activity.

In this conference, our invited speakers will give practical strategies to tackle challenges in combating corruption and fraud in high-risked growth markets, and what obstacles Multinational players have to overcome in their daily operations.

The event is sponsored by PSA-Pacific Strategies & Assessments.

Agenda
08:30-09.00 Registration
09:00-09:05 Welcome Remarks, Dr. Ioana Kraft, General Manager, European Chamber Shanghai
09:05-09:30 Introductory Presentation "Operational Fraud Risks in China Business Operations“, by Peter Humphrey, Founder & Managing Director, ChinaWhys Co. Ltd.
09:30-09:55 Presentation by Professor LIU Xianquan, Dean of Law Faculty at East China University of Political science and Law, Director of Criminal Law Research Center, Vice President Criminal Law Research Committee at China Law Society, and President of Shanghai Criminal Law Research Committee

09:55-10:15 Presentation “Legal Requirements for Compliance and Non-Compliance Responses”, by
Peter Corne, Managing Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:05 "Compliance Dialogue between In-house Lawyer and Business People", by David Du, General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Bosch in China

11:05-11:25 Presentation “Avoidance of Operational Fraud Risks in China Business Operations – An In-House View”, by Bernd Siegel, CFO, FUCHS Lubricants China Ltd.

11:25-12:05 - Panel Discussion
12:05-12:10 - Closing Remarks

Our speakers:

Peter Humphrey, Managing Director, ChinaWhys Co Ltd; President ACFE China Chapter
Peter is the founder and managing director of ChinaWhys, an advisory firm that promotes transparency and ethical practices through risk mitigation measures and investigation. Peter has spent 37 years involved with China and is an expert on China fraud. Before entering risk consulting, Peter had a long career as a foreign correspondent with Reuters. He later headed China investigations for Kroll and PwC before establishing ChinaWhys in 2003. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is Founding President of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Mainland China Chapter as well as a member of the American Society of Industrial Security.

Professor LIU Xianquan, Dean of Law Faculty at East China University of Political science and Law
Prof. Liu is Dean of Law Faculty at East China University of Political science and Law, Director of Criminal Law Research Center, Vice President of the Criminal Law Research Committee at China Law Society, and President of Shanghai Criminal Law Research Committee. He has been engaged in the teaching and research of the Criminal Law for many years. His recently published academic work include Lectures on the Chinese Criminal Law, Monograph of Criminal Law on Financial Crimes, Theories and Actors of Criminal Law on Financial Crimes, etc. He also leads research projects related to financial crimes. He is the expert and judicial committee consultant for Shanghai Higher People’s Court, Shanghai People's Procuratorate and 13 other judicial authorities.

Peter Corne, Managing Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Peter Corne specializes in the area of Chinese corporate, commercial and regulatory practice and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and equity and asset acquisitions involving Chinese enterprises. He is a pioneer in the area of anti-trust in China and has developed a robust clean energy and sustainability practice focus on CDM, M&A and new projects and collaborations with Chinese parties. He is, in addition, a noted authority on PRC administrative law and the foreign investment process, having authored a critically acclaimed book on the subject. Mr. Corne is a former chair of the Energy Working Group in 2010 and 2011, and also of the Legal Working Group from 2005 to 2009, at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, and is actively involved in the China Greentech Initiative, in which Dorsey & Whitney is a sponsor.

Sven-Michael Werner, Partner of Taylor Wessing Shanghai office
Sven-Michael is a partner of Taylor Wessing’s Shanghai office. With 12 years working experience in China he is mainly assigned to the firm’s general corporate and commercial practice advising multinational as well as medium-sized corporations on their business operations and investments in mainland China. His special focus in this regard is on mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring, trade & distribution as well as on compliance. He advises clients from various industries with an emphasis on automotive, healthcare and real estate industries.

Bernd Siegel, CFO at FUCHS Lubricants China
Bernd Siegel works as CFO at FUCHS Lubricants China. Having worked previously in Mexico, Indonesia and Malaysia, he carries more than 11 years working experience in China. First started in a JV, he now works in a German WOFE, in charge of Finance, IT, Admin, Legal and Compliance. FUCHS runs 2 plants in China, 18 sales office and 10 outside warehouses.

David DU, Vice President and General Counsel, Bosch China
David Du is the General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Bosch in China. Bosch operates in the business of automotive technology, Industrial technology, consumer goods and building technology. In 2011 Bosch in China had a revenue of over RMB 40 billion and 30,000 employees.

Registration
Please register through this website (button above).
For any further enquiries, please contact Ms Zhao Yang at yangzhao@europeanchamber.com.cn or 63852023-117, stating your name and company, by Wednesday, 20 March 2013 COB.

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