Amie Chang is a Managing Director and Head of Nardello & Co.’s Hong Kong office. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong since 2010, in her capacity as a diplomat for the U.S. Department of State, and as a senior investigator with an international consulting firm. Amie specializes in conducting complex, multi-jurisdictional due diligence, strategic intelligence, asset tracing, and litigation support investigations on behalf of corporations and their legal counsel.

• EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO NARDELLO & CO.

  As a director at a global risk consulting firm, Amie managed multiple engagements across the Asia-Pacific region. These included investigations into numerous Chinese companies in a wide range of industries ahead of their proposed listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; a business intelligence investigation seeking to gain clarity into allegations made against a listed Chinese company by a short seller report; and a litigation support investigation into assets of the founders of a prominent food and beverage chain in Asia and North America.

  Amie began her career as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, where she authored analytic papers on the leadership and foreign policy of East Asian countries. She was also a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, where she monitored political and security issues and served as a focal point for multidisciplinary teams by providing analytic support to policy, strategic, and tactical customers.

• Led a complex due diligence investigation on behalf of a global financial institution that sought to understand a high-net-worth Asian investor’s mysterious source of wealth. The investigation found that the investor, who presented himself as the owner of a small private company, maintained a complicated network of business interests and senior-level positions in companies that had not previously been disclosed to our client. The investor was also found to maintain overlapping business interests with the family members and close associates of senior government officials of an Asian country, some of whom had been the subjects of a government-led anti-corruption campaign.
• Led a strategic intelligence investigation examining the potential sanctions exposure of a multinational client, which discovered that it had inadvertently conducted business with a company that allegedly had ties to the North Korean regime. The investigation confirmed that the company in question, a small representative office, was in actuality operating as an overseas branch of a US-sanctioned trading company belonging to the North Korean military-industrial complex.

Education

• Boston College, BA, Political Science and International Relations

Languages

• Korean (conversant)
• Mandarin (conversant)
• Portuguese (conversant)