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Jan van der Kuijp

Associate, Clifford Chance Asia*

Associate, Clifford Chance Asia*
Jan van der Kuijp

*Clifford Chance Asia is a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP.

Jan is an Associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group specializing in cross-border government investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.

Before Clifford Chance, he served as an Honors Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice where he prosecuted federal criminal cases at both the district and appellate levels. He also has wide-ranging experience conducting corporate investigations, white-collar criminal defense, and multilateral development bank compliance monitorships as a Legal Analyst at an American law firm’s Hong Kong and Shanghai offices.

Jan is admitted in the United States and speaks English and Mandarin Chinese. He obtained his J.D. from Harvard Law School and A.B. from Harvard College.

  • Advising and acting for a U.S.-based multinational technology company in an internal U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation of possible foreign bribery activities stemming from its operations in India
  • Advising and acting for a U.S.-based multinational food manufacturer in an internal investigation into possible fraud and improper accounting practices out of its operations in Asia
  • Advising and acting for a U.S.-based Fortune 100 company in an internal FCPA investigation of possible fraud and corruption stemming from its operations in China*
  • Advising and acting for senior executives of a U.S.-listed Chinese company facing allegations of fraudulent accounting and financial practices by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)*
  • Advising and acting for a European multinational automotive company in an internal FCPA investigation of possible foreign bribery activities*
  • Advising and acting for senior executives of a multinational pharmaceutical company in a parallel DOJ-SEC investigation of possible FCPA issues and fraudulent accounting practices in Vietnam*
  • Advising and acting for a Chinese state-owned construction and engineering firm serving as its independent compliance monitor in connection with its debarment by the African Development Bank*
  • Advising and acting for a multinational Chinese state-owned construction firm serving as its independent compliance monitor in connection with its years-long debarment by the World Bank Group*

*Experience before joining Clifford Chance

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Career and qualifications

  • Harvard College (A.B.) (2012)
  • Kobre & Kim LLP as Legal Analyst (2016 – 2019)
  • Harvard Law School (J.D.) (2022)
  • Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law, State Bar of Maryland (2022)
  • U.S. Department of Justice as Honors Attorney (2022)
  • Admitted to practice in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2023)
  • Joined Clifford Chance as Associate (2023)

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