Forum Chairperson

Vivian Chui, Regional AML and Sanctions Advisor, BNP Paribas Hong Kong

Vivian is currently with BNP Paribas Hong Kong as their Regional AML and Sanctions Advisor. She is responsible for providing advice regarding AML and Sanctions matters within the APAC region.

Prior to joining BNP, Vivian worked in HSBC's Financial Crime Compliance where she led the Hong Kong Sanctions Advisory team, covering all 4 lines of businesses.

Before joining HSBC, Vivian worked with Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong where she led the AML/KYC/CDD advisory team. Her last role with Standard Chartered was Deputy AMLCO/MLRO.

Before embarking on her financial crime compliance career, Vivian practised as a Hong Kong-qualified solicitor where she specialised in business restructuring, distressed asset recovery and insolvency litigation.

Vivian is also a qualified mediator with CEDR, HKCIArb and the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Miss Chui has taken up the role of Forum Chairperson in her personal capacity and not as a representative of her current organization.

Keynote Speakers

The Honourable Mr Justice Kevin Zervos, SC, Justice of Appeal

Mr Justice Zervos is a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court of Hong Kong.  He obtained a Bachelors degree in Science (Psychology) and an LL.B. from Monash University, Australia, in 1975 and 1977 respectively.  He further obtained a Master of Laws (Human Rights) degree from the University of Hong Kong in 2009. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, in 1978.  He was registered as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia in 1983, and was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, in 1991.  He began work in Australia as a solicitor in private practice and later as a Legal Officer and eventually Senior Legal Officer of the Melbourne Office of the Special Prosecutor (Federal).  In 1986, he was appointed Senior Assistant Director to the Office of the Federal Director of Public Prosecutions, Melbourne and Sydney Offices.  In 1989 until 1992 he was General Counsel to the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. He moved to Hong Kong in 1992 and worked in the Legal Department as a prosecutor, doing mainly white colour crime cases and later appeal cases. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 2001 and appointed as Senior Counsel in 2003. He joined the then Attorney General's Chambers as Crown Counsel in 1992.  He was then promoted to Senior Crown Counsel in 1993, to Deputy Principal Government Counsel in 1999, and to Principal Government Counsel in 2008.  He took up the post of Director of Public Prosecutions in 2011.  He was appointed as Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court in September 2013.  He was later appointed to the Court of Appeal on 30 July 2018.

David Leung Cheuk-yin, SC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Prosecutions Division, Hong Kong Department of Justice

Mr. David Leung Cheuk-yin, obtained his LL.B and P.C.LL at the University of Hong Kong in 1989 and 1990 respectively.  He joined the Prosecutions Division of the Department of Justice in 1995.  He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2015 and the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2017.

Mr. Leung has a wide range of experience in advising and prosecuting trials and appeals at levels of court.  These cases include cybercrime, money laundering, human rights and constitutional argument and public order events.

Mr. Leung has extensive experience in teaching legally related subjects at the City University, University of Hong Kong and the University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Leung regularly conducts advocacy workshops and training for the Hong Kong Bar Association, the Hong Kong Academy of Law and the Law Society.

Confirmed Speakers / Panelists

Mini vandePol, Asia Pacific Head, Compliance & Investigations, Baker McKenzie

Ms. vandePol was the Chair of Baker McKenzie's Global Compliance & Investigations Group from 2014 to 2017 where she led a global team of 900+ compliance and investigations practitioners in Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and North America. The team was ranked in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the Top 10 global investigations firms by Global Investigations Review. She is currently the Asia Pacific Head of the Firm’s Compliance & Investigations Group, has been named one of the "Top 100 Women in Investigations" and is currently ranked by Chambers as a key practitioner for China Corporate Investigations / Anti-Corruption. Her work engagements focus on anti-bribery and corruption and financial crime compliance programs, transactional risk management and mitigation and investigations in Asia Pacific, primarily in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and India in a variety of industries.

Beth Epstein, General Manager, Asia Pacific, The Red Flag Group

Beth has over fifteen years’ experience in China with more than a decade in compliance, investigations and risk management advisory in Greater China. She has worked at several international business advisory firms, advising multinational corporations in numerous industry sectors on the risks of doing business in China and throughout Asia Pacific. Her experience includes pre-IPO, M&A and compliance due diligence engagements, complex fraud and corporate investigations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation investigations, fraud risk assessments, country risk assessments, and ethics training.

Gabriel Wong, Director of Specialist Advisory, BDO Limited

Gabriel has more than 14 years of experience advising clients on matters relating to alleged bribery and corruption, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act related investigations and reviews, forensic accounting, regulatory and internal investigations and breach of contract and shareholders’ disputes resolutions. He leads investigations into issues concerning financial fraud, irregular rebates and kickbacks, misappropriation of assets, financial statement manipulation, employees’ conflicts of interests, management misconduct and collusion, theft of proprietary information, anomalous accounting treatments, conspiracy to defraud and suspicious related party transactions. He is also experienced in the review of internal controls, investigative due diligence, compliance training and anti-money laundering compliance reviews. 

Vi Vu, Counsel, Hogan Lovells

Vi Vu is Counsel in the Investigations, White Collar and Fraud group at Hogan Lovells in Singapore. Vi acts for multinational corporations and financial institutions in regulatory and internal investigations, compliance reviews and anti-bribery and anti-corruption related matters. Her representative experience includes advising a global Japanese manufacturing company on bribery and corruption issues in Vietnam, representing a commodities trading company in an investigation by the FBI and DOJ for sanctions violations, and acting as head legal counsel for a Las Vegas based gaming company to develop an effective anti-money laundering program pursuant to a DOJ non-prosecution agreement. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells in Singapore, Vi practiced law in New York for over 10 years in the firm's New York office and as an Assistant General Counsel for a global financial services company. Vi is qualified in the U.S. (New York and California), and speaks fluent English and Vietnamese.

Michael Chin, Partner, Simmons & Simmons

Michael has over 20 years' experience advising on a broad spectrum of corporate transactions in the Asia-Pacific region.  As an Australian Chinese having worked in Australia, Hong Kong and China, Michael has a unique ability to bridge the cross cultural gap, often critical to completing deals in the region.

Michael has represented both foreign multi-national and Chinese clients involved in public and private merger and acquisition transactions, ranging from Hong Kong listed company takeovers to cross border acquisitions, as well as in the execution of their market entry strategies into Greater China.  He is also an experienced private equity practitioner, having represented a number of reputable venture capital and private equity funds with their fund raising and investment transactions as well as emerging growth companies with their various stages of financing and other general corporate needs. 

Samuel Yang, Partner, AnJie Law Firm

Samuel Yang is a partner with AnJie Law Firm. He has worked as in-house counsel and external lawyer for more than 15 years. He advises clients on a wide range of regulatory, commercial and corporate matters, especially in the areas of telecommunications, cyber security, data protection, e-commerce, social networking, online games, hardware and software, technology procurement and transfer, distribution and licensing, and other technology-related matters. He also advises clients on compliance and employment. Before he joined AnJie, Samuel worked for British Telecom, CMS Cameron McKenna and DLA Piper.

Wen Zou, Senior Legal Consultant, AnJie Law Firm

Ms. Zou worked in Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court for 11 years and was once awarded Trial Expert. She heard complicated criminal cases and various high-profile civil cases, including economic and white collar crime cases, trademark infringement and unfair competition cases, antitrust civil dispute cases and case involves SEPs.

Ms. Zou’s practice areas cover major and difficult litigation and arbitration cases involving intellectual property, criminal-and-civil cross-protection of corporate trade secrets, and corporate criminal risk prevention and control.

Ms. Zou is the external expert of Shenzhen Intellectual Property Bureau as well as Intellectual Property Committee of Shenzhen Anti-Counterfeiting and Quality-Assured Federation.

Michelle de Kluyver, Partner, Corporate Crime and Regulatory Investigations, Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Michelle has broad and deep experience in complex, cross-border financial crime investigations relating to bribery and corruption, financial sanctions, money laundering, fraud and related issues. Michelle's investigation experience covers the UK, the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America and offshore jurisdictions.  Michelle is an expert on directors' duties and also advises clients on compliance, remediation and governance: "In my area of practice, compliance, investigation, enforcement and the management of collateral risks come together as a discipline".

Michelle is named a leading individual in Who's Who Legal Business Crime: Defence and as a Next Generation Lawyer in Legal 500: Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime.

Vincent Liu, Chief Counsel, Asia Pacific - Legal & Compliance, AECOM

Vincent is the Chief Counsel – Asia Pacific for AECOM.  Previously, he was a Partner from the Construction team of International Firm, Holman Fenwick Willan.  Vincent is a specialist construction and dispute resolution lawyer with nearly 20 years of post-admission experience in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Western Australia and Hong Kong SAR. His principal areas of practice include construction and engineering (front end and back end), dispute resolution, administrative law and ethics and compliance. Whilst at AECOM, Vincent has also acted as the APAC Chief Compliance Officer responsible for administering AECOM’s ethics and compliance policies and systems and carrying out internal investigations with an Asia-Pacific focus.

 Andrew Levy, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel (APAC), Accenture

Andrew Levy leads a team responsible for overseeing significant commercial and employment litigation and arbitration throughout Asia and Australia, as well as resolving pre-litigation client disputes. He also supports significant regulatory and compliance investigations and advises on government relations strategy, particularly focused on China. Previously, Andrew led a global team at Accenture responsible for investigating allegations of compliance violations and employee misconduct, ranging from harassment to corruption. Prior to joining Accenture, Andrew was an attorney in the New York and Washington offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.  He took a leave from the firm from 2006-2009 to serve as deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  Andrew holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Leeann Morentz, Senior Vice President, Head of APAC Financial Crimes Risk Management, Wells Fargo

Leeann Morentz is Senior Vice President, Head of APAC Financial Crimes Risk Management at Wells Fargo in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, she served as APAC financial crimes counsel at Morgan Stanley advising on potential corruption and sanctions legal risks. Leeann also spent a number of years in private practice at Arnold & Porter and Paul Hastings in Washington, DC focusing on financial crimes investigations and compliance program development in a wide range of industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, consumer products and defense. She obtained her law degree from Duke University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Duke University.