黄玉玲 Helen Hwang

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 ...

July 6, 2020, Covington Alert

On July 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ” or the “Department”) Criminal Division and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Enforcement Division quietly released A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Second Edition (the “Second Edition”). The first edition of the Resource Guide (the “First Edition”) was ...

2020年6月3日, 科文顿电子期刊

2020年6月1日，美国司法部（下称?司法部?）刑事司发布了更新版的企业合规体系评估文件（下称?指引?），该指引是供检察官在司法部调查中评估企业合规体系时参考的文件。司法部最近一次修订指引是在2019年4月，我们在之前一篇客户期刊中讨论过该版指引。如同指引之前重申的那样，2020年6月的版本仍然适用于涉及企业组织的所有刑事司调查和执法行动。  

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 ...

April 27, 2020, Covington Alert

Companies should ask themselves five key questions about their compliance programs to ensure they are ready to face any crises—including the coronavirus pandemic—and be ready for current and future business disruptions.

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 ...

February 5, 2020, Law360

January 30, 2020, Covington Alert

It has been another strong year in anti-corruption enforcement, with 2019 meeting or beating the high-water mark for enforcement across a number of measurements.

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 ...

October 2, 2019, The American Lawyer

October 1, 2019

WASHINGTON—Covington has promoted to its partnership 14 lawyers based in eight different offices, including nine women and six lawyers of ethnically diverse backgrounds.   “Our new partners are exceptionally talented lawyers from a wide range of the firm’s offices and most important practices, and they are extremely well-positioned to carry the firm forward,” ...

September 5, 2019, The FCPA Blog

September 5, 2019, Annual China Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences/Healthcare Compliance Conference (Shanghai)

May 2019, Covington Alert

This article describes the attorney-client privilege under U.S. law and where care must be taken in internal investigations in China to maintain the privilege and avoid inadvertently waiving its protections.