Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption (International Firms)

Tim Blakely is adept at handling both external and internal investigations for multinational corporations, with notable experience acting for senior executives. His expertise is highly sought after by listed companies, private equity firms and hedge funds.

Tim has a broad understanding of the region and its implications for a global entity. He stays calm when issues are fraught, understands our business and works well with our executives.

Tim has a strong base of legal knowledge and provides very professional and business-savvy advice to our business to best represent our interests.

Chen Zhu has notable experience providing advice on cross-jurisdictional governmental and internal investigations, and is particularly active representing clients in anti-money laundering and anti-corruption investigations. He advises a wide spectrum of clients in the professional services and pharmaceutical industries, as well as financial institutions and investment funds.

He is very knowledgeable about sanctions and compliance matters, which have been changing rapidly. His user-friendly advice is easy to present internally to business stakeholders.

He is very smart in navigating tricky situations. He has developed a reputation for handling the tricky stuff that big life science companies give to him. He is very much attuned to how the PRC works.

Chen was educated in the US, has extremely strong language skills, and is familiar with models and systems in China and the US, so it is very easy to work with him.