Japan Corporate Compliance And  Governance Forum 2018
Date:               25 October 2018
Registration:  8.30am to 9.00am
Event:             9.00am to 4.30pm
Venue:            Hilton Tokyo, 6-6-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 0023, Japan
Room:            Katsura and Kasuga Room, Level 3.

Eddie Lam, Senior Managing Director, Forensic Accounting & Advisory Services, FTI Consulting
Eddie Lam is a Senior Managing Director based in Shanghai, China where he leads the Forensic Accounting & Advisory Services China practice at FTI Consulting. Eddie has provided accounting, investigative and compliance related expertise in litigation, crisis and audit situations for more than 18 years. He has led engagements in over 20 countries spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, assisting clients with regulatory inquiries and other allegations of wrongdoing including financial reporting fraud, corruption/bribery, misappropriation of assets and employee misconduct. 
Additionally, Eddie has significant experience in advising on and implementing various proactive compliance and risk mitigation initiatives that help companies protect their interests, both commercially and legally. Internationally recognised as a leading forensic accountant by Who’s Who Legal in their ‘Investigations 2017’ edition, Eddie is noted by clients as being “very responsive to client needs” and “very knowledgeable about the field. 

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Eddie was a Director for the German engineering firm Siemens, based in Beijing, China. Eddie holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an M.B.A. in Accounting and Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of New York. 

David Gilmore, Managing Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution, Tokyo, Herbert Smith Freehills GJBJ
David is the Managing Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills' Tokyo office and the head of the Dispute Resolution practice in Japan. Based in Japan since 2004, David advises Japanese and international clients on a wide variety of substantial commercial cross-border disputes, with particular experience in international arbitration and litigation across Asia, Europe and the United States. David has extensive experience of advising companies on cross-border compliance issues arising from fraud and anti-corruption matters, investigations, due diligence and resulting claims. He has advised clients in relation to investigations before the UK's Serious Fraud Office, the US Department of Justice and also major regulatory breaches. 

David represents clients across a variety of industry sectors, including manufacturers, automotives, pharmaceutical, energy and natural resources, construction, heavy industries and international trade.

David has been recognised as a leading individual for Dispute Resolution in Japan by key legal directories. He is consistently listed as a Leading Lawyer by Who's Who Legal, and ranked in the top tier of practitioners by Chambers Asia-Pacific and Asia Pacific Legal 500 (since 2010 and 2013, respectively).

David is licensed to advise upon English law in Japan as a Registered Foreign Lawyer.

Elaine Wong, Partner, Dispute Resolution, Tokyo, Herbert Smith Freehills GJBJ
Elaine is a partner in our dispute resolution practice in Tokyo. Elaine's practice centres on corporate crime and investigations, international arbitration, as well as cross-border commercial litigation. She has conducted corruption investigations on behalf of Japanese and multinational companies and advised clients on anti-bribery and corruption matters (including coordinating with various authorities and regulators), corporate governance and crisis management. 

Elaine also has significant experience representing major Japanese and multi-national companies in complex, high-value international arbitrations under the JCAA, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules and in disputes under Japanese, English, Singapore, French, Swiss, Vietnamese and UAE law. In addition to written advocacy, Elaine offers oral advocacy capability, having had significant trial experience.

Elaine advises clients across a range of sectors including construction, infrastructure and heavy industries, manufacturing, energy and mining.

Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills' Tokyo office, Elaine practised for several years in Paris and in Singapore.  She speaks English, French and Mandarin. Elaine is licensed to advise on English law and Singapore law in Japan as a Registered Foreign Lawyer.

Yin-Fan Chen, Attorney, Lee And Li
Yin-Fan Chen studied at Waseda University in Japan as an exchange student and acquired proficiency of Japanese. She has been advising Japanese companies.

Her practice areas include foreign investment in Taiwan, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, fair tradestandards, labor law in Taiwan, and other regulatory compliance; she has extensive experience in reviewingcontracts and representing clients in different matters.

Christopher D. Frey, Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Christopher Frey is counsel in the Tokyo office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He focuses his practice on white-collar defense, government investigations, regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations and complex business litigation. Christopher regularly advises corporations and senior executives in internal investigations and in all stages of criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings.

Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Christopher served for over six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. There, he investigated and prosecuted a wide array of complex white-collar matters, including FCPA violations, insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, investment advisor fraud, money laundering, intellectual property and cybercrimes, and criminal tax offenses.  During his tenure as a prosecutor, Christopher was the lead trial lawyer in numerous jury trials, and he has substantial appellate experience, having briefed and/or argued over a dozen appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Christopher also served as Associate Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel. In that capacity, he helped develop and execute the White House’s response to various Congressional investigations, and provided legal and strategic advice to White House staff and Executive Branch officials on compliance, oversight and risk management issues.

Goldie Dhama, Partner – Tax & Regulatory Services, PwC India
Goldie Dhama is a Partner in PwC’s Regulatory Services team and has over 15 years’ experience in advising clientson policies, regulations and economic legislations and representation before regulatory bodies. This includes matters relating to foreign investment policy, exchange controls, capital market regulations, corporate laws and relevant industry policy/regulatory framework across sectors. 

Goldie has helped companies set up new businesses, enter into joint ventures, undertake transactions, obtain licenses/ approvals, navigate new regulations and deal with regulatory disputes/ investigations. Goldie has experience in advising clients on regulatory and policy matters in diverse sectors including retail, food, e-commerce, telecom, technology, infrastructure, pharma, auto and entertainment and media. He also helps companies navigate the policy maze, advice on strategy for stakeholder engagement, analysis of business impact of an upcoming regulation. Goldie is a law graduate and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Akiko Kikuchi, General Counsel and Head of Law, Patents & Compliance, Bayer Holding Ltd. 
Akiko Kikuchi is the General Counsel and Head of Law, Patents & Compliance for Bayer in Japan.  She also serves as the Japan Head of Data Privacy since 2016.  She is an active member of the Country Leadership Team working closely with top management and business leaders for Pharmaceutical, Consumer Health and Crop Science Divisions.  Akiko has a BA in Law from Keio University, and MA in Law from Exeter College, Oxford University, England where she studied as a Jardine Matheson scholar. She is qualified to practice in both England and Hong Kong.  Before joining Bayer, Akiko served as the General Counsel for PwC Japan for eight years including her time as the Head of Legal at BearingPoint Consulting.  Akiko is an Executive Board Member of the Japan In-house Counsel Network and is frequently asked to act as a judge at Asia Legal Business Awards.  She was awarded as an AsiaLaw Leading Lawyer in Corporate Governance in 2012 and 2013 and her team was selected as a finalist for the Innovative In-house Team of the Year at the Japan ALB Awards in 2018.

Kaori Miyake, Corporate Counsel Japan, Johnson Controls, Inc.
Kaori Miyake is licensed in Ontario and started her career with the Toronto firm of Cassels Brock and Blackwell. She moved back to Tokyo to take up an in-house position at FedEx Express in 1999. Since then she has been in progressively broader roles at GE Healthcare, Schneider Electric and Amazon.  Kaori has been Corporate Counsel for Johnson Controls since 2017. A seasoned generalist with 21 years of advising diverse industries such as logistics, healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce and construction, Kaori is uniquely positioned to be an effective interface between linguistic, cultural and legal divides. Kaori holds JD from Queen’s University, Dipl. SLS from University of Ottawa and LL.B. from Carleton University and Rikkyo University.

Giselle Bates, Global Compliance Counsel, LIXIL Corporation
As Global Compliance Counsel at LIXIL Corporation, Giselle leads the Compliance Promotion Team.  Her team’s work includes  producing  and disseminating LIXIL’s global compliance policies, guidelines and procedures; raising compliance awareness  by producing training materials for use around the globe, as well as conducting training and producing LIXIL’s annual Compliance Event; and, measuring compliance awareness through annual surveys and compliance reviews.

Prior to joining LIXIL Giselle worked for nearly 10 years for an ASX listed transport and logistics group which is now owned by a Japanese listed company.   While there Giselle worked in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Japan.  She was Lead Counsel of a Hong Kong based freight forwarding division which had 30 businesses in 28 countries.  In that role Giselle led a multi-jurisdictional and multi-cultural legal, compliance and co sec team.  Her compliance work included wide variety of investigations into employee misconduct and refreshing the group’s trade compliance policies and procedures.  Prior to moving to Hong Kong Giselle led the legal function for a transport business based in Osaka.  

Prior to moving in-house Giselle was a senior associate at two international law firms in Sydney and Melbourne.

Giselle is admitted to practice law in Victoria and New South Wales.

Jason Hall, General Counsel, Renesas Electronics Corporation
Jason Hall’s career has been marked by innovation and a personal commitment to continuous growth.  As the general counsel of Renesas Electronics Corporation—a publicly traded Japanese company with roughly $7B in revenue and 20,000 employees worldwide—Jason is forging a global legal team that supports an international business at the forefront of semiconductor technology, including “electronic brains” that power self-driving cars, robots, automated factory equipment, and smart home applications.  Based in his company’s Tokyo headquarters, he empowers a legal team of ~100 members that spans the globe.  Jason began his legal career in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, where he represented various high-tech companies in IP litigation.

Takayuki Kitajima, General Counsel & Representative Director, Unilever Japan Holdings K.K. (Japan)
Takayuki started his career as legal assistant in Japanese trading company. Nissho Iwai Corporation (currently renamed as Sojitz Corporation) in 1987. At that time, he was in charge of domestic legal issues, especially debt collection and related works. Through two overseas assignments (Germany 1991-1993, UK 1997-2001), he extended his job fields to international matters like project finance, IPP, Joint Venture and License Arrangement, asset sale & purchase, distressed debt management and etc.

After 18 years practicing in Japanese company, he decided to seek new opportunity and moved to Johnson & Johnson Japan as legal director covering medical device, cosmetic products and consumer products. In November 2006, he joined Unilever Japan group as General Counsel for Japan & Korea and appointed as Representative Director of Unilever Japan Holdings K.K. Since then, he extended his jobs to brand protection and effective advertisement to the products. In the course of this work, he worked closely with business people in Japanese, US and European companies to support right and reasonable business decision and to clear and to settle several problem and issues. 

Natsue Ishida, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, UD Trucks Corporation
Natsue Ishida is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of UD Trucks Corporation in Japan.  She provides legal and compliance advice to the management and business divisions covering all company activities in and outside of Japan.  Before joining UD Trucks, Ms. Ishida worked as the Head of Legal Department at a major cosmetics company, medical device/electronics company and as a legal counsel for a major medical device company and a securities company in Tokyo. Her international experience includes working in the United States and Europe in the areas of Global Data Protection and Global Transfer Pricing practice as a member of the international headquarters of a large multinational accounting firm. In addition to general corporate practice, her areas of focus include data protection, information security, corporate compliance, professional ethics, information technology, intellectual property, and international taxation. Ms. Ishida is a member of the New York State Bar and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US.

Satoshi Sato, Head of Global Compliance,Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
Satoshi Sato currently heading compliance and governance area globally in Sony Mobile Communications.

Satoshi stared his career as HR specialist of Hitachi Co. Ltd. Through the working experience that is close to legal/IPR area, he joined IP Law Firms, and worked as paralegal for 4 years. In 1999, he joined legal department Hikari-Tsushin, and established and managed legal and IPR department.

In 2001, he started career in Japanese telecommunication operator, formerly known as J-Phone, then Vodafone Japan and finally Softbank Mobile.Through this assignment, he has been engaged in IPR including prosecution, and technology-related contract. From 2007, he has been engaged in Sony Mobile Communications Inc. (formerly known as Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications)

After having concurrent role in IPR or information security area, now he leads compliance, governance and trade compliance globally. Experienced in mobile and IT industry for 18 years. His continuous challenge is to penetrate global governance designed by Japanese HQ into non-Japanese subsidiaries.