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- Huanhuan Zhang
Huanhuan Zhang advises clients operating in China on anti-corruption laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He has experience in conducting highly sensitive anti-corruption/FCPA investigations in China, assisting companies in strengthening internal anti-corruption compliance practices, and developing compliance trainings for employees of companies based in China. He is active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
July 9, 2020, Covington Alert
China has published a near-final draft of a new Export Control Law that, if enacted as drafted, would build upon China’s existing export control regulations, which are scattered across multiple laws, administrative regulations, and implementation rules, with the goal of creating a unified export control system to promote China’s commitment to nonproliferation ...
May 2020, Covington Alert
On April 13, 2020, China’s National Healthcare Security Administration (“NHSA”) released a draft opinion titled “Guiding Opinions on Establishment of a Drug Pricing and Procurement Creditworthiness System (the “Draft Opinion”; Covington’s translation is available here) setting forth proposed requirements for a creditworthiness evaluation and disciplinary system ...
March 4, 2020, Covington Alert
The following alert is a summary of the district court’s acquittal of UK citizen Lawrence Hoskins, a former senior vice president at the French power and transportation company Alstom S.A. (“Alstom”), on FCPA bribery and conspiracy charges. Alstom pleaded guilty in 2014 to two counts of violating the FCPA in connection with a worldwide bribery scheme that ...
December 12, 2019, Covington Alert
On November 8, 2019, a federal jury convicted Lawrence Hoskins, the former senior vice president of Alstom, of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) for his role in a multi-million dollar bribery and money laundering scheme in Indonesia.
October 11, 2019, Covington Alert
On September 27, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced a $4.1 million settlement with Westport Fuel Systems, Inc. (“Westport”) and its former chief executive officer, Nancy Gougarty. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Westport is a clean fuel technology company that has shares listed on the NASDAQ. The SEC’s cease-and-desist order finds that ...
February 3, 2019, Covington Alert
On January 29, 2019, Transparency International (“TI”) released its 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”), which ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption. The latest CPI figures show that, despite continuous domestics anti-corruption enforcement, China went down in both score and ranking, with a score of 39 out ...
November 14, 2018, Covington Alert
China recently amended its Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) to codify rules encouraging cooperation in government investigations, align with the new national supervision system, and introduce trials in absentia for certain crimes, including bribery and corruption.
November 8, 2018, Covington Alert
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a new “China Initiative.” According to the press release, the Initiative “reflects the Department’s strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s overall national security strategy.”
April 26, 2018, Covington Alert
On April 23, 2018, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (“D&B”), a professional services company providing credit reporting information and other commercial data to businesses, agreed to pay more than $9 million in connection with a cease and desist order with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to settle allegations that it violated the books and ...
China: Government Reorganization and Trade War Suggest More Anti-Corruption Enforcement in China
March 29, 2018, Covington Alert
China’s biggest government reorganization in a generation, coinciding with rapidly escalating U.S.-China trade tensions, will impact many aspects of doing business in China, including an uptick in anti-corruption enforcement.
March 2, 2018, Covington Alert
On November 20, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) unsealed a criminal complaint against Chi Ping Patrick Ho, the head of a non-governmental organization (“Energy NGO”), which holds “Special Consultative Status” with the United Nations (“UN”) and is funded by a Chinese oil and gas conglomerate, CEFC China Energy Company Limited (“CEFC”) , and Cheikh ...
February 28, 2018, Covington Alert
On February 21, 2018, Transparency International (“TI”) released its 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”), which ranks countries and territories by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption. The latest CPI figures show that China slightly improved in both score and ranking, with a score of 41 out of 100 (where 0 represents most corrupt and 100 ...
November 13, 2017, Covington Alert
On November 7, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) unsealed criminal charges against five individuals in connection with an alleged bribery scheme to assist Rolls-Royce plc (“Rolls-Royce” or the “Company”) in obtaining a US $145 million government contract to supply equipment and services for a gas pipeline from Kazakhstan to China.
August 18, 2017, Covington Alert
On July 27, 2017, a Manhattan federal jury convicted Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng of bribing Caribbean diplomats to the United Nations (“UN”) to secure the organization’s support for a multi-billion dollar convention center that Ng hoped to build in Macau. After a five-week trial, the jury took just seven hours to return a guilty verdict on all six charges: ...
January 3, 2017, Covington Alert
On December 29, 2016, General Cable Corporation (“GCC”), a global manufacturer of wire and cable products, agreed to pay approximately $75.8 million in connection with a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and a cease and desist order with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to settle allegations that it violated the ...
October 7, 2016, Covington Alert
On September 29, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued letters of declination to NCH Corporation (“NCH”) and HMT LLC (“HMT”). Both companies are Texas-based “domestic concerns.” The letter to NCH, an industrial supply and maintenance company, relates to an investigation into possible violations of the anti-bribery provisions of the U.S. Foreign ...