FTI Corporate Investigations: Recent Episodes
FTI Corporate Investigations
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Our host Ken Fung is joined by both Howard Chan and Fabian Roday of Fangda Partners, as well as FTI colleague Greg Hallahan. The panel offers practical advice on how foreign parties can recover assets in China, and how such proceedings should be approached from outside of China. Our experts also discuss very useful asset tracing resources and share some experiences on the pitfalls and processes of recovery.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Legal perspective:
- How client profiles have changed - what sectors are more active / have been affected?
- How to advise Chinese and foreign stakeholders on recovering debt from a Chinese entity
- Advisory perspective:
- Process of an investigation in China / an investigation of assets held overseas
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There’s no doubt that the evolution of data over the last 20 to 30 years has been significant. The challenges that we are facing in Asia, along with the types of emerging data that we are now encountering and how these need to be integrated into our investigations, are staggering. Following on from part I in our Corporate Investigations series, our host Sandeep Jadav is joined by Scott Warren (Squire Patton Boggs) and colleague Tim Anderson to discuss the changes that they have observed, the explosion of data types that we are encountering post-Covid, and suggested strategies in dealing with the extended data universe.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Evolution of Investigations – moving digital evidence out of China, current challenges and recommendations for companies.
- Emerging data sources – what are these, why are they important to investigations and how are they changing.
- Data integration – how to deal with such disparate set of data types, the use of Technology Assisted Review (“TAR”) and how emerging data fits into this picture.
Note: on August 20, 2021, the PRC passed the Personal Information Protection Law, which was still in draft form when Scott recorded his comments. For a full breakdown of the law, please see Scott’s summary at: https://www.securityprivacybytes.com/2021/09/new-prc-personal-information-protection-law-passed-a-deeper-dive-into-the-provisions/
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Over the last 12-24 months, collecting and analysing data has become increasingly difficult, particularly with the rise in new sources of data globally. Our host Gino Bello is joined by Simran Toor (WongPartnership) and colleagues Brett Clapp and Han Lai to discuss practical issues such as privacy, encryption and data transfer. They also give insights into how Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning can be a useful tool in an investigation and what legal preparation work now looks like – the challenges of the investigations process and how the courts are approaching cases with copious amounts of data.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Challenging data - how to obtain it and then how to use it
- Structured and unstructured data, artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Legal issues and perspectives
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