Jiaxing Hao

Jiaxing Hao is an associate in the firm's Washington office and a member of the firm's Global Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance and White Collar & Regulatory Defense practice groups. 

Jiaxing assists clients with internal investigations, with a primary focus on matters involving allegations of bribery and corruption under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, sanctions violations, procurement fraud, financial and accounting fraud, money laundering, and other ethics issues and violations of company policies. Jiaxing has broad experience assisting clients in designing, implementing, and testing corporate compliance programs. She regularly provides regulatory guidance to clients and help them update the compliance program to mitigate corruption, fraud, money launder, sanctions violations and other ESG concerns. 

Jiaxing also represents clients in Multilateral Development Bank (“MDB”) enforcement proceedings, including matters involving the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and European Investment Bank. She is experienced in assisting companies and individuals during all phases of MDB sanctions proceedings, from responding to initial allegations and conducting audit and investigation, negotiating settlement agreements, and litigating matters before sanctions boards, to aiding clients in sanction release proceedings.

In addition, Jiaxing works closely with Chinese companies based in the US and abroad in an array of matters including trade sanctions, agency investigations and inquires, data privacy, product liability, and bankruptcy, and other disputes. 

From August to December 2017, Jiaxing was seconded to JunHe LLP in Beijing where she worked with the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice group and assisted attorneys with Chinese and foreign clients.