Yuet Ming Tham Esq.

Sidley Austin LLP
Tham, Yuet Ming

Yuet Ming Tham is a Partner in Sidley & Austin LLP's Hong Kong office and focuses on cross-border compliance and investigations, and dispute resolution. She advises international corporations on their legal risks across Asia, such as those relating to anti-bribery laws (including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), international trade controls, sanctions, anti-money laundering regulations, e-commerce, data security and privacy.

Ms. Tham has worked on numerous investigations involving the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She has also been involved in cases involving the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (the SAIC) in China, the Fair Trade Commissions in Korea and Taiwan, and issues relating to the Fair Competition Code in Japan. Yuet often conducts compliance risk assessments for her clients’ business operations in Asia, and has set up numerous compliance programs around the world and conducted FCPA due diligence of business partners.

Prior to joining Sidley, Ms. Tham was the Asia Head of the Regulatory, Compliance & Investigations Group, and also Head of the Asia Life Sciences Group at DLA Piper. She has also held roles as a Deputy Public Prosecutor in Singapore and was previously the Asia-Pacific Regional Compliance Director for Pfizer. During that time, she was responsible for compliance and investigations in Japan, China, Australia, Korea, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. 
Ms. Tham sits on the Advisory Board of Seton-Hall University’s Healthcare Compliance Program for Asia, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Life Sciences Compliance Journal. She is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay.

Ms. Tham received her LL.B. from Queen Mary, University of London.

She is a co-author of Bloomberg BNA Privacy & Data Security Practice Portfolio Series No. 515, Privacy and Security Issues in Cloud Computing.