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ALB Korea Anti-Corruption Forum
With an increasingly complex regulatory and enforcement environment impacting corporations worldwide, Asian Legal Business is pleased to present a timely full-day conference “ALB Korea Anti-Corruption Forum 2016” on 29 March in Seoul.
Anti-corruption regulatory developments are on a rise and reinforcement of existing frameworks are becoming a critical component in the battle against corrupt practices. Just recently, the Anti-corruption and Civil Rights Commission of Korea drafted the “Improper Solicitation & Graft Act” which aims to eradicate improper solicitations and bribery to promote fair performance of public duties.
Continuous assessments and disciplined improvements are the lifeblood of an effective anti-corruption compliance program. We invite you to join senior in-house legal counsel, compliance professionals and directors from both Korean and international companies who will gather for a candid discussion on current best practices to create, implement and maintain an effective anti-corruption programme within your company
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
- Optimise your anti-corruption compliance and training: move from awareness to adoption
- Be in the forefront of learning new regulatory developments in Korea and across the globe in the fight against corruption
- Master the key elements of a robust stakeholder, reputation and crisis management plan
- Implement anti-corruption efforts from top-down to bottom-up: combine “Tone at the top” with a culture of ethics and accountability
- Meet and partner with key representatives of government, the non-profit, financial, technology, consumer services, education and energy sectors
KEY TOPIC HIGHLIGHTS
- How will extra-territorial laws such as the FCPA or the UK Anti-Bribery Act affect multinational companies operating within Korea?
- How can you ensure complete transparency across your supply chain?
- What checks and balances are needed for third party relationships?
- What are the best practices to adopt to ensure the optimal conduct of internal investigations?
- How significant are the reputational risks from allegations of corruption, and how can these be negated?
- What lessons can be learned from recent anti-corruption enforcement cases in Korea?
ALB Korea Anti-Corruption Forum
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| 08:30 | Registration and networking |
| 09:00 | Chair's opening remarks |
| 09:00 | Guest of Honour Address: The present and future of Korea's anticorruption policies KWAK JIN-YOUNG, Vice Chairperson, Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, Republic of Korea |
| 09:15 | Introduction to Improper Solicitation & Graft Act HEO JAE-WOO, Director of General Anti-Corruption Division Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, Republic of Korea |
| 09:45 | Anti-Corruption Investigations and Heightened Anti-Corruption Standards under the “Improper Solicitation and Graft Act” in Korea
DONG EON CHA, Attorney Yoon & Yang |
| 10:45 | Refreshment Break |
| 11:00 | Best practices: Anti-corruption compliance programme and training methodologies
Moderator: JOONGI KIM, Professor of Law; Vice President for International Affairs Yonsei University Panelists: NAM KWON LEE, General Counsel & Senior Vice President HanGlas-Asia JIYEON LEE, Senior Legal Counsel Ericsson SVEN-ERIK BATENBURG, Head of Legal & Compliance European Chamber of Commerce in Korea ANDREW HONG, Senior Legal Counsel Hyundai Heavy Industries |
| 12:00 | Conducting Due Diligence on Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption
DEAN WARD, Head of Risk Specialist - North Asia Thomson Reuters |
| 12:50 | Networking Luncheon |
| 13:50 | Internal Investigations: best practices and pitfalls to avoid
Moderator: SIMON BARRETT, Partner Pillsbury Panelists: DANIEL KIM, General Counsel Continental Korea PAUL LEE, Director/Chief Legal Officer Cantara Global Corporation CHAN SUNG, Regional Counsel - North Asia Diageo |
| 14:50 | Handling the fallout – multi-front risk mitigation and reputation management in a corruption-related crisis
PAUL MARSTON, Counsel, Pillsbury |
| 15:20 | Refreshment Break |
| 15:35 | Cultivating a company culture of integrity, accountability and transparency
Moderator: SVEN-ERIK BATENBURG, Partner Pillsbury Panelists: ADRIAN YOON SUK BAE, Head of Legal and External Affairs - North Asia; Vice President, South Korea British American Tobacco EDWARD DHONG, Regional Counsel - Korea IBM SUNNY PARK, Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs Microsoft |
| 16:35 | Chair's closing remarks |
| 16:40 | End of ALB Korea Anti-Corruption Forum 2016 |
ALB Korea Anti-Corruption Forum
 | Kwak Jin-Young Vice Chairperson Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, Republic of Korea Ms. Kwak Jin-Young oversees the general planning and implementation of the works of Anti-Corruption Bureau of the ACRC. She was appointed by the President as the vice chairperson of the ACRC in August 2013. Before joining the ACRC, she was a professor of Political Diplomacy at Konkuk University for more than 10 years. She also took various roles to improve the political environment of Korea such as auditor to the Korean Association of International Studies, committee member of the National Assembly Operation System Reform Committee, policy advisor to the Korean Manifesto Center and director of the Korean Association of NGO Studies. She received a Ph.D in Political Science at Northwestern University, USA and a Master’s degree in Political Science at Ewha Woman’s University, Korea. She graduated from Ewha Woman's University majoring in English Literature. |
 | Nam Kwon Lee General Counsel & Senior Vice President HanGlas - Asia Legal Director & Compliance Officer Saint-Gobain Group Korea, Japan & Thailand Nam Kwon Lee started his professinal career in a law firm and spent several years in law firms. Thereafter, in 2004, he joined HanGlas Group of Korea which has become affilate of Saint-Gobain Group in France (“SG”) in 2005, 1 year after from joining to HanGlas. In HanGlas and SG, he started his work in legal fields and became the general counsel of HanGlas. Later in 2009, regional compliance correspondent role has been assigned to him in Korea. And his roles for legal and compliance extended to Thailand and Japan from 2010 and 2014 respectively. In the field of compliance, he disseminates and implement SG Group compliance programs, rules, policies or doctrines and arrange or correspond relevant trainings with local law firms or train SG employees in the region by himself. |
 | Paul Lee Director/Chief Legal Officer Cantara Global Corporation Paul Lee is currently a Director and the Chief Legal Officer for Cantara Global Corporation which is in the business of music and media contents, advertising/sponsorship, etc. He manages the day-to-day legal affairs and risk management of the Canatara group of companies located in Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing and Brisbanne. Paul was formerly an Associate General Counsel at Korea Exchange Bank and Special Counsel in the New York office of Duane Morris LLP. |
 | Jiyeon Lee Senior Legal Counsel Ericsson Jiyeon Lee is a senior legal counsel of Ericsson-LG Co., Ltd, a leading subsidiary of Ericsson Group in Korea. Before joining Ericsson, she worked as an in-house counsel for several multi-national companies including GE and Coca-Cola Bottling. Since 2010, she has been working as an in-house counsel of Ericsson-LG handling legal matters of 3 Ericsson entities in Korea including Ericsson-LG and several overseas subsidiaries of Ericsson-LG. She is currently representing compliance legal network in region North East Asia in Ericsson as well. |
 | Edward Dhong Senior Regional Counsel IBM Edward Dhong is a Senior Regional Counsel for IBM and leads a team of lawyers, Contracts Specialists and other professionals in representing IBM’s interest in Korea. Prior to his current role, he was IBM’s Trust & Compliance Officer responsible for implementing IBM’s corporate compliance programs and initiatives throughout Korea. His earlier roles in IBM included managing IBM's litigation and M&A transactions across Asia Pacific as well as taking on special projects for the General Counsel in Asia. Prior to IBM, Edward was an attorney at the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices of Baker & McKenzie and Coudert Brothers with extensive transactional experience in corporate, M&A, securities, investment, and other transactional matters.Edward also serves as a Vice Chairman and a Director of the In House Counsel Form and a Co-Chair of the Compliance & Ethics Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea. |
 | Sven-Erik Batenburg Head of Legal & Compliance European Chamber of Commerce in Korea Sven-Erik Batenburg is Head of Legal & Compliance at the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea, a non-profit organization for companies conducting business in or related to Korea. In such capacity, Mr. Batenburg operates, amongst others, ECCK’s IPR Committee, which serves as the prime communication channel with government authorities on IP matters, raises public awareness of IP challenges and provides assistance to member companies facing intellectual property issues. As former Intellectual Property Manager at JT International, Mr. Batenburg was responsible for protecting and expanding the trademark portfolio of one of the company’s global flagship brands. Prior to that, Mr. Batenburg worked as Legal Staff at the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), where he was in charge of the “.NL” domain name dispute resolution system. Mr. Batenburg holds a Master’s degree in Information Law from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. |
 | Sunny J. Park Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs Microsoft Korea Sunny J. Park currently heads the Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft Korea, dealing with a wide variety of cutting-edge issues such as cyber security, privacy and digital copyright protection. She previously practiced law at firms such as Kim & Chang and Jipyoung & Jisung, and has hands-on business experience in the IT industry having served as the Managing Director of Mobile Internet business unit at Locus Technologies. She has J.D., M.B.A. and B.S., Marketing & Retailing from Syracuse University, U.S.A. |
 | Adrian Yoon Suk Bae Head of Legal and External Affairs - North Asia Vice-President, South Korea British American Tobacco Adrian Yoonsuk Bae is the Vice President and Head of Legal & External Affairs of British American Tobacco in the North Asia area. Prior to assuming this role, he was the Executive Director of Legal, Security & AIT of BAT. He was also the previous Legal Director of Diageo and a former associate at Yoon & Yang. He graduated at the University of British Columbia with a Law degree and at the University of Toronto. |
 | Andrew Hong Senior Legal Counsel Hyundai Heavy Industries Mr. Hong serves as a lead counsel for compliance matters such as corruption prevention and various international economic sanctions regimes, and also oversees the full legal aspects of EPC projects. Mr. Hong is a founding member of HHI’s Compliance Department serving as the first team-leader for the Department and, through such role, has developed in-depth knowledge and first-hand experiences of the whole spectrum of compliance-related matters, from the setting up of the compliance organization and drafting of the anti-corruption compliance procedure to lecturing in training sessions and handling of due diligence in various levels. Mr. Hong has also successfully managed the Iran sanctions situation for the past five years, devising the company-wide strategies under the fast-changing sanctions environment and providing legal advice in compliance-related dispute situations. Mr. Hong is a frequent speaker at international conferences. |
 | Simon Barrett Partner Pillsbury Simon Barrett is the head of the law firm's Finance practice in Tokyo and a member of the global Energy & Infrastructure practice. Simon specializes in the development and financing of major infrastructure projects particularly those in the transportation, power, water, chemicals and petrochemicals sectors. Simon has advised procuring authorities, project sponsors, lenders, sub-contractors and offtakers on all aspects of structuring and documenting transactions. Simon has particular experience advising on the drafting and negotiation of high-value engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, and he acts regularly for both project owners and EPC contractors on the terms of their EPC and related contracts. As part of his practice, Simon also advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including joint ventures, cross border M&A and debt restructurings. Simon has worked in London and Tokyo and advised Japanese and international clients on their overseas investments including those in the Middle East, South East Asia, China and Europe. Simon has spent much of his career working for Japanese corporates and financial institutions in Tokyo and his experience includes a two-year secondment to the legal department of a leading Japanese trading house. Simon is an English law qualified solicitor and is licensed to practice in Japan as a Foreign Admitted Lawyer (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi). |
 | Dean Ward Head of Risk Specialist - North Asia Thomson Reuters Dean has been with Thomson Reuters for just under 10 years and is currently the Head of Risk Sales Specialists for Hong Kong and North Asia. He started as a researcher before moving into a client facing role with World-Check before the acquisition by Thomson Reuters, when he was asked to head up their due diligence business across Asia Pacific. He has worked with some of the world's largest banks, software companies, oil companies and pharmaceutical companies assisting them with their Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Fraud, Pre-IPO, M&A and KYC due diligence, and helping them identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks. |
 | Chan Sung Regional General Counsel - North Asia Diageo Chan Sung has over 13 years of private practice 9 years of inhouse experience in New York and Seoul. He has been the inhouse lawyer for companies in highly regulated industries, which has given him many opportunities to deal with unannounce visits by regulators requiring crisis management, internal investigation and litigation skills. Currently, he is the Regional Counsel for North Asia for Diageo, owners of leading alcohol beverage brands Windsor, Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Smirnoff, covering Korea and Japan. His previous inhouse experience includes stints as the General Counsel for the Homeplus Group, the large retailer which was formerly a subsidiary of Tesco Group; Senior Counsel and Director of Law for for Philip Morris Korea, with Marlboro and Parliament in its portfolio; and, Legal Team / Compliance TFT Senior Manager and team leader and for LG Display Co., Ltd., a leading computer, TV and mobile display manufacturer. Before commencing his inhouse career, Chan was a senior foreign attorney at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC in Seoul advising clients in diverse matters, including international arbitration and litigation and soft intellectual property matters. Chan started his legal career in New York City with the maritime boutique of Burke & Parsons, representing shipping companies, shipyards and Protection and Indemnity Clubs in matters in wet work involving vessel collisions, oil spills, and sinkings, as well as dry work involving cargo loss and charter party disputes. |
 | Heo Jae-Woo Director of General Anti-Corruption Division Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, Republic of Korea (ACRC) Mr. Heo has been the director of General Anti-Corruption Division since December 2014. The division’s mandates include establishing, managing and coordinating various anti-corruption policies, establishing basic anti-corruption strategy across nation, and investigating current corruption issues and developing corresponding policies. He was also in charge of Anti-Corruption Surveys & Evaluation Division, General Service Division, Administrative Management Division, and Social Institutional Improvement Division within the ACRC. He started his career as a public official in the Ministry of Health & Welfare in 1998 and transferred to the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption (KICAC) in 2002 when the KICAC was launched. Since then, his job has mainly been related to the anti-corruption policy development and its implementation.He graduated from Korea University in 1993. |
 | Dong Eon Cha Partner Yoon & Yang LLC Dong Eon Cha is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas are investigations by the Public Prosecutors’ Office in relation to corporate crimes and anti-corruption. Prior to joining Yoon & Yang in 2011, he served as a public prosecutor for 20 years. His posts as a prosecutor include Deputy Senior Prosecutor of the Financial Investigation Department at Seoul District Public Prosecutor’s Office, Senior Prosecutor of Criminal Department VIII at Seoul District Public Prosecutor’s Office, Deputy Chief Prosecutor at Daegu District Public Prosecutor’s Office and Chief Prosecutor at District Gwangju Public Prosecutor’s Office, Suncheon Branch. He also served as Head of the Working Group for Judicial Reform Team and Head of the International Cooperation Team at the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Legal Advisor for the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Throughout his career, he has gained vast experience and expertise in a wide range of criminal fields including corporate crimes, white-collar crimes and the corruption of politicians. |
 | Joongi Kim Professor of Law & Vice President for International Affairs Yonsei University Joongi Kim is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs at Yonsei Law School. He has a forthcoming treatise INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION IN KOREA (Oxford University Press). A former attorney at Foley & Lardner in Washington, D.C. and Scholar-in-Residence at WilmerHale’s International Arbitration Group, he has acted as a presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, mediator and counsel in institutional and ad hoc proceedings under the rules of the ICC, JCAA, JAMS, KCAB, LMAA, SIAC and UNCITRAL, involving parties from Austria, British Virgin Islands, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Japan, Korea and Singapore as well as the UK and US. He also serves on the panel of arbitrators for the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement, Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, Global Green Growth Institute and ICSID in addition to CAA, CIETAC, CRCICA, DIAC, HKIAC, JCAA, KCAB, KLRCA, SCIA, SHIAC and SIAC. |
 | Paul Marston Counsel Pillsbury Paul Marston focuses his practice on projects-related work and crisis management. He regularly advises clients in connection with disputes and regulatory enquiries. Recently, he has represented multiple companies in connection with navigating the Operação Lava Jato (Operation Carwash) scandal in Brazil. Operation Carwash began as a money-laundering investigation by the Brazilian authorities and expanded to address allegations that executives at Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, accepted bribes in return for awarding construction contracts at inflated prices. In addition, Paul represented a company involved in the government investigations and litigation arising out of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred in 2010. |
 | Daniel Kim General Counsel Continental Korea Daniel Kim is a corporate lawyer admitted in multi-jurisdictions and has many years of legal experience both as a law firm lawyer and as in-house corporate counsel. Daniel’s in-house experience includes more than 10 years in the manufacturing industry in Korea including the oil and automotive industries. Daniel is currently serving as General Counsel, Korea for Continental Automotive, a world’s leading automotive supplier whose annual sales amounts to approximately 35 billion Euro and which has eight entities and more than 2,500 employees in Korea alone. |
 | Young Bang Head of Operations, LawnB Thomson Reuters |
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