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Carmen obtained her law degree and completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from The University of Hong Kong in 1998 and 1999 respectively. She received her Masters degree from The University of Southampton on maritime law in 2000. She also completed short courses at The China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, China and The University of London, King's College in London, England in her early years of studies.
 
Carmen specializes in commercial law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and has extensive experience in advising clients on cross-border transactions and acting for various companies listed on Hong Kong's Stock Exchange, including PRC entities.
 
Carmen is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin

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Mr. Wee is a Barrister, supplying legal services outside England and Wales under The Bar Council’s Rule 206 (i.e., not holding a practicing certificate to practice before the courts in England and Wales), as well as a CPA and Chartered Corporate Secretary. His practice includes advising clients on the development of projects and transactions throughout Asia, including the drafting of all related documentation. 

He provides regional tax planning and corporate structuring, and assists clients with the formation and maintenance of companies throughout Asia and world-wide, including subsidiaries, branch and representative offices.

He also advises clients on employment-related and intellectual property matters.

David Wee is a member of the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple), the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (U.K.), and the Chartered Secretaries of Australia. 

He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic, an MBA from the University of Warwick, and an LLB (with Honors) from the University of Wolverhampton. 

David’s first language is English. He is also fluent in Chinese (Mandarin), other major Chinese dialects, and is conversational in Malay and Bahasa Indonesia. He was born and raised in Singapore.  

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Richard L. Cassin helps clients comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other U.S. laws, and regularly assists companies facing compliance issues. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics in 2010 and 2011 by Ethisphere Magazine, and the FCPA Blog -- which he created -- was listed by the Risk Management Monitor as one of the ten best risk-management and insurance-industry blogs.

Cassin's articles about corruption and compliance have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Business Times (Singapore), the New England Law Review, and many other leading publications. His influential opinions are cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Business Week, Variety, Bloomberg's news wire, Reuters, NPR, Fox News, CNN, and others. 

His book Bribery Abroad has been an Amazon bestseller for international law.

He received his law degree from Boston College Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Boston College Law Review. He's a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Virginia and Florida.  

He lives in Singapore and Charlottesville, Virginia.

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In the news . . . .

 Richard Cassin is a lawyer who represents companies in these types of cases. He says in order to avoid prosecution, companies often end up cleaning house. That is, they get rid of employees who engaged in the bribery or in its cover-up. He says a dramatic recent case involved the electronics maker Siemens.

Listen to the full story on NPR here.

“The first thing I thought of was, ‘Oh God, did I eat a piece of this Mexican chicken?’ ” said Richard L. Cassin, a lawyer who specializes in foreign bribery cases and writes the FCPA Blog on issues related to the foreign corruption statute.”

 Read the full story from the New York Times here. 

"Whether News Corp. executives could face criminal prosecution would depend on the usual question that comes up in a scandal: What did they know and when did they know it? In other words, an executive would "have to have had direct knowledge of the illegal activity," like whether they authorized payments or tried to cover it up, said attorney Richard L. Cassin, a specialist in FCPA who also writes FCPA Blog."

Read the full story from Variety here.  

The firm will have to pay for an internal investigation to satisfy the American government. This may need to span the world, not just Mexico, and it may have to report the results in real time to the Justice Department, reckons Richard Cassin of Cassin Law. Such probes cost a lot: an estimated $1 billion in the case of Germany’s Siemens.

Read the full story on The Economist here. 



"Definitely, anti-corruption has been high up on the enforcement agenda recently," says Richard Cassin, a FCPA expert whose blog produced the list of companies that have disclosed investigations. "This area of law used to be an obscure specialty. Now every big law firm has a practice."

Read the full story from CNN Money here. 

"A corporate attitude toward the corruption there that allowed a cover-up to happen could signal wider compliance problems," said Richard L. Cassin, who writes an industry blog, FCPA Blog. 

Read the full story from the Chicago Tribune here.

From 1991 to 2010, each of the dozens of publicly traded companies criminally accused under the law has reached a settlement that enabled it to pay a fine and avoid trial, said Richard Cassin, an attorney who's the creator and principal author of the FCPA blog.

Read the full story from USA Today here. 

“If we had more judicial interpretations of the law, companies would have a clearer idea of the barriers and the bright lines,” says attorney Richard L. Cassin, founder and principal writer for the FCPA Blog.

Read the full story from The Daily Beast here.

“…the FCPA Blog, a site that provides practical information about the FCPA and compliance.”

Read the full story from Business Insider here. 

"People have talked themselves into the idea that they can win these cases and so far there is no evidence that this is true," said Richard L. Cassin, a lawyer who helps clients comply with the FCPA and runs a blog on the act.”

 Read to full story from Rueters here. 

“The Securities and Exchange Commission could seek to enforce the part of the foreign bribery law that requires companies to keep accurate books, Cassin said. If News Corp. employees disguised bribe payments with accounting tricks, the SEC may have grounds to fine the company.”

Read the full story from the Los Angeles Times here. 

"That's because U.S. authorities trust the British legal system, older than America itself, to handle the case. America usually goes after cases that are not being prosecuted elsewhere and in which widespread, systematic bribery can be proved, Cassin said. News Corporation, he said, does not fit the bill."

Read the full story from CNN here. 

Historically most Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases have involved contracts with foreign governments, mineral extraction or manufacturing facilities. But with capital for finance companies drying up amid the financial meltdown, Richard L. Cassin, author of the FCPA Blog, noted in 2008 that interactions with sovereign wealth funds might trigger problems with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Read the full story from DealBook here. 

“But American lawyer Richard Cassin warned Wall Street’s fierce regulator, The Securities and Exchange Commission, could seek to enforce the part of the foreign bribery law that requires companies to keep accurate books, according to the LA Times newspaper.”

Read the full story from The Daily Mail here. 

"I am never going to be a leading authority on the FCPA, yet because it is of such paramount importance to our clients doing business in China, it is imperative we stay current on what is happening on the FCPA front so we can help our clients set up preventative measures. One of my primary ways of doing that is to regularly read the FCPA Blog. It fills "the blog space" on the FCPA."

Read the full story from the China Law Blog here. 

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"Its (The FCPA Blog) simple name leaves no guesses as to what it covers — news and views about the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Managed by Richard Cassin, the multiple daily posts gives readers a grim reminder of the oft-corrupt corporate world and analysis of the FCPA’s actions".

Read the full story from the Risk Management Monitor here. 

“The Folks…who produce the FCPA Blog have an interesting take on Monday's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act conviction of husband-and-wife film producers…”

Read the full story from Am Law Daily here. 

“I think [increased FCPA enforcement] was a response to the dangers in the world,” said Cassin, who also writes at the FCPA Blog. “And also I think it was a message to foreign leaders that they had to begin to police their corporations—or we would.”

Read the full story from The Crime Report here.