James Hsiao

Local Partner – White & Case, Hong Kong SAR

James Hsiao is a local partner in our White Collar practice, based in Hong Kong. He has nearly 15 years of experience in regulatory, government enforcement, and compliance matters.  He also regularly advises and represents clients on complex cross-border and commercial litigation and international arbitration.

James has expertise with government enforcement actions and internal investigations involving the FCPA, fraud and embezzlement investigations, international export controls/sanctions matters and regularly advises clients on compliance risk and risk assessments.  Those include compliance audits, development of compliance programs, client trainings, and compliance due diligence.

He has advised clients in a broad range of sectors, such as energy, mining, infrastructure, finance, fintech, life sciences and technology.

Before joining White & Case, James worked at international law firms in Hong Kong, New York and Los Angeles. He is a former prosecutor in Brooklyn and has spent time on a client secondment at Goldman Sachs.  James also has more than 7 years of experience working in various engineering roles at a number of technology start-ups and companies prior to law school.