The Asia-Pacific Investigations Review 2021

The Asia-Pacific Investigations Review 2021 contains insight and thought leadership from 25 pre-eminent practitioners from the region. Across nine chapters, spanning around 100 pages, it provides an invaluable retrospective and primer. Together, these contributors capture and interpret the most substantial recent international investigations developments of the past year, with footnotes and relevant statistics. They provide valuable background to help you get up to speed quickly on the essentials of a particular topic. This edition covers Australia, China, Hong Kong, India and Singapore in jurisdictional overviews. It also looks at the impact of AI, data privacy, forensic accounting and law enforcement in multi-jurisdictional investigations.

Chapters: 

Cross-border overviews:

• Forensic Accounting in Cross-border Investigations
  Colum Bancroft, Edward Boyle and Takahiro Yamada
  AlixPartners
• Strengthening Supply Chains amid Trade Wars
  Frances McLeod, Drew Costello and Weng Yee Ng
  Forensic Risk Alliance
• The Long Arm of Law Enforcement
  Kyle Wombolt and Jeremy Birch
  Herbert Smith Freehills

Country chapters:

• Australia: An Increasingly Global Approach
  Dennis Miralis and Phillip Gibson
  Nyman Gibson Miralis
• Australia: Handling Internal Investigations
  Natalie Caton, Jonathon Ellis and Gowri Kangeson
  DLA Piper
• China: A New Normal amid Rising Trade Tensions
  Dora W Wang, Michael Lowell, Peter Witherington and Jessica Tian
  Reed Smith
• Hong Kong: Email Fraud and the Con Game in Business
  Maria Sit, Hadrian Ho, Fei Kwok and Natasha Shum
  Dechert
• India
  Aditya Vikram Bhat and Prerak Ved
  AZB & Partners
• Singapore: Handling Financial Services Investigations
  Joy Tan and Koh Swee Yen
  WongPartnership LLP