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Maria Sit is a partner at global law firm Dechert and the Asia head and global co-leader of the firm’s White Collar, Compliance and Investigations practice. She is a former in-house counsel at the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. Maria has built her career as a litigator with two decades of experience focusing on complex commercial litigation and has a notable track record handling regulatory investigations. Maria was “Highly Commended” in the Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Asia Pacific 2020 report and has been named finalist in the ‘Financial Services Regulatory’ category by IFLR's Women in Business Law Awards 2020 – Asia. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Dechert is a leading global law firm with 26 offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The Firm has around 1,000 lawyers, providing it with the resources necessary to deliver seamless, high-quality legal services to clients wherever they do business.