Meg Utterback is a disputes and compliance partner in the KWM New York office. Meg represents Chinese and multinational companies in cross-border disputes, US litigation, international arbitration, and regulatory investigations.

Meg has represented numerous Chinese companies in US litigation and assisted them to understand the process while helping them to devise winning strategies. Meg understands Chinese companies and culture, having come to China in 1985 and most recently resided in Shanghai for fourteen years. As a US litigator, Meg also understands the expectations of courts and counsel in the US. For US litigation matters, Meg uses teams in China and the United States with bilingual capability. Having a team that can read and communicate in Chinese reduces costs and facilitates US discovery tasks such as document production and witness preparation

She also represents US and multinational companies in cross-border disputes, often overseeing PRC domestic litigation in combination with international arbitration or US litigation. Meg has guided foreign companies in China for the past 20 years and understands the challenges foreign companies face in the China market.

Meg has represented numerous companies in investigations into bribery, insider trading, and embezzlement and related labor contract issues under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Chinese law. Meg advises Chinese and multinational clients in dealing with foreign regulators when they face problems with their overseas construction and investment projects. She also represents clients in disputes that stem from these issues.
Meg works with Chinese and multinational companies to devise compliance programs and internal controls to effectively address risk-management issues and stay current on regulatory developments in the areas of sanctions, anti-bribery, and export controls. Meg has represented companies before US regulatory agencies, including the Departments of Commerce and Treasury.

She also represents Chinese and multinational companies in arbitrations administered under the rules of the CIETAC, HKIAC, ICA, ICC, SIAC, and UNCITRAL and in litigation before US courts. Meg has been involved in a number of high-profile disputes in China and has assisted with asset tracing and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. She has written numerous book chapters and articles regarding management of evidence and the conduct of negotiations and hearing procedures for Chinese civil proceedings and China-related cross-border disputes.

Judge XIAO Kai is the Vice President of Shanghai Financial Court, the first special court handling financial cases in China. Before nominated as the judge of the SFC, Xiao Kai was the inaugural director of the Financial Crimes Division, Shanghai People’s Procuratorate from 2012 to 2018, in charge of prosecuting serious financial frauds, from credit card fraud to insider trading in Shanghai, the financial center of the nation. Prior to joining the SPP, Xiao Kai was the deputy chief prosecutor of Shanghai PuDong New District People’s Procuratorate from 2009 to 2011. Before that, he was a full-time law professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School. Xiao Kai has been a visiting scholar or visiting professor at several law schools in the United States, including the New York University School of Law in 2008 and the College of Law, University of Tennessee, in 2005. He obtained his doctorate and master degrees in law from Wuhan University, and Certificate for Chinese and American Studies from the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing center. As a leading expert, Xiao Kai has authored several books and writes extensively on financial law, private international law, and dispute resolution.

Dr Ling Yang is Deputy Secretary-General of HKIAC and Chief Representative of the Shanghai Office.

Prior to joining HKIAC, Ling was an Associate Professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law where she taught international arbitration for nine years. During 2017, Ling was a visiting scholar at Boston University School of Law. Ling has published widely on issues of international dispute resolution and arbitration in China, and currently serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Shanghai International Arbitration Review. Ling has also been appointed as arbitrator. She obtained a PhD in 2009 and an LLM in International Law in 2006 from Wuhan University. In 2008, she was visiting scholar at the University of Aix-en-Provence Marseille III.