Tiana Zhang

Internal Investigations

• Advising companies from a broad array of industries in connection with internal investigations regarding anticorruption law violations, anti-trust law issues, securities fraud, breaches of business ethics and various other internal control issues.

• Advising publicly-traded companies’ boards of directors, audit committees, and special committees of the board, with regard to securities disclosure and accounting concerns and other compliance, enforcement or regulatory matters.

Responding to Chinese Government Investigations

• Advising companies in response to Chinese government authorities’ questions and investigations relating to commercial bribery, unfair competition and anti-trust issues.

  • Antitrust: Advising US companies in multiple industries, including automotive and pharmaceutical, on responding to Chinese government antitrust investigations, including with regard to self-disclosure to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), potential penalties, potential implications outside of China, and compliance.

  • Anti-corruption: Advising numerous multi-national companies in multiple industries, including pharmaceutical, medical device, and infrastructure/engineering with regard to responding to Chinese government investigations, including by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS/PSB), concerning allegations of commercial or public corruption.

Monitorship and Self-Reporting

• Advising a U.S. tobacco company doing business in China and other regions with regards to an oversight by a compliance monitor on its China business, including implementation of compliance policies and procedures, assessment of compliance risks, and responding to the monitor’s other requests.

• Advising U.S. pharmaceutical companies with regard to self-reporting obligations arising from FCPA settlements with the Department of Justice/ SEC.

Compliance Programs and Training

• Advising a wide variety of entities, including publicly-traded companies, investment vehicles and private equity funds with regard to assessing regulatory risks associated with their China business, devising anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and other compliance programs and working with local business to roll out compliance programs.

• Providing anti-corruption, securities regulation, anti-trust and other compliance training to various companies’ employees in China.

Dispute Resolution

• Advising a leading global agriculture company in multidistrict litigation alleging false advertising and other claims related to Syngenta’s commercialization of a genetically-modified corn seed.

• Represented Chinese investor in a U.S. federal court litigation relating to disputes arising from JV arrangements.

• Represented Chinese investor in an ICSID arbitration against Belgium.

• Represented clients handling commercial disputes before the American Arbitration Association.

• Represented clients, varying from multi-national companies to individuals, in cross-border litigation, advising them on unique strategic and legal issues in cross-border lawsuits, including service of process, forum non conveniens and jurisdiction dispute issues.

• Advising a leading Chinese solar panel manufacturer in defending a high-profile anti-trust lawsuit in the U.S.

• Representing ConocoPhillips in defending a lawsuit filed in a Texas federal court by Chinese fishermen who sought compensations from an oil spill in Chinese territorial waters.

• Represented a world leading tire and rubber company in defending a mass tort case involving claims for wrongful deaths, personal injuries and property damages allegedly caused by underground water pollution, which resulted in winning a very favorable settlement for the client.

• Represented multiple American and Canadian companies in defending product liability lawsuits in Californian courts that involved wrongful death and personal injury claims.

• Represented a leading internet user review website defending internet libel cases and successfully had claims for damages dismissed and requests for documents quashed in many cases.

• Represented eBay in consumer dispute lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions within the United States and successfully won dismissals or favorable settlements in multiple cases.

• Represented multiple companies, including U.S. and Chinese companies, in defending complicated commercial contract disputes, real estate titles disputes and employment disputes in California federal and state courts.