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Compliance and Investigations

Compliance and Investigations

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Cambodia

Laos

Myanmar

Thailand

Vietnam

OVERVIEW

Guiding clients through cross-border compliance with deep local insight and regional expertise.

Tilleke & Gibbins’ Compliance and Investigations practice provides strategic counsel to clients navigating complex regulatory and enforcement landscapes across Southeast Asia. We advise on a broad range of white-collar matters, including internal investigations, government inquiries, criminal defense, asset recovery, and anti-corruption compliance.

Our team combines decades of experience with deep local insight and regional perspective to support clients in managing risk and responding effectively to sensitive, high-stakes issues. We regularly represent companies and executives before law enforcement bodies, criminal courts, and regulatory agencies in each respective jurisdiction, and collaborate across our offices in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam to support cross-border matters.

With a strong understanding of Southeast Asian business culture and regulatory expectations, we deliver practical, commercially focused advice tailored to each client’s needs. Our commitment to integrity and excellence ensures that clients receive trusted guidance and robust representation in all aspects of compliance and investigations.

Experience

  • Advised a leading multinational pharmaceutical company on conducting an anticorruption compliance audit in its Thai subsidiary. Prior to the audit we provided advice to the client and its U.S.-based global anticorruption counsel on Thai anticorruption law and compliance issues in the Thai healthcare industry. After the audit, we reviewed relevant interview notes to identify potential red flags and areas for compliance enhancement.
  • Representing a world-leading manufacturer in a USD 200+ million global fraud case involving former employees in the company’s Thai operations. Among other things, we conducted employee investigations and interviews, advised on termination of employees, and liaised with the Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police, various embassies, the Anti-Money Laundering Office, and similar offices in other jurisdictions around the world.
  • Prepared anticorruption, anti-money laundering, and unfair competition compliance policies for a multinational corporation with operations in over 100 countries, including countries with extraterritorial anticorruption laws such as the FCPA. We also advised on the implementation of our client’s compliance program in Thailand, which involved tailoring our client’s global compliance concerns to the local Thai jurisdiction.
  • Worked with a leading multinational law firm, and acted as local counsel on an internal corporate anticorruption investigation at the Thai subsidiary of a global beverage manufacturer. We assisted the client in interviewing employees to gather crucial information, reviewed evidence, and advised on various issues of Thai law, including anticorruption, tax matters, property, and regulatory licenses, among others, to help the client identify if alleged bribes actually took place.
  • Assisted an industry-leading provider of computer storage technologies and solutions, with an internal investigation and review of claimed wrongdoing by a senior-level Thai administrative employee. We conducted a thorough review of preliminary investigative reports to assist in our conduct of on-the-ground employee interviews and assessments, and provided detailed summaries and reporting of our investigative findings and advice on Thai law.
  • Acted for the Thai subsidiary of a multinational plate glass manufacturer in a high-stakes criminal investigation by Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) for allegedly purchasing black market minerals for use by its manufacturing facility.
  • Assisted a multinational project management company in conducting an internal investigation involving bid rigging on energy and infrastructure projects in Thailand and across Southeast Asia. Our investigations uncovered significant wrongdoing by an employee, which motivated the client to revamp their internal policies to avoid similar situations in the future.
  • Advised several pharmaceutical companies on anticorruption regulations related to their business dealings and procurement contracts with Thai government hospitals.
  • Advised a global food and beverage company on an extensive internal anticorruption investigation in Thailand.
  • Assisted a multinational energy services company on an internal bid-rigging investigation in Thailand.
  • Advised a European pharmaceutical company on an internal fraud and anticorruption investigation in Vietnam.
  • Assisted a global energy services firm on defending an anticorruption investigation brought by the Thai authorities.
  • Designed and implemented a compliance, ethics, and health care professional dealings program across a client’s Southeast Asia offices.

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