FCPA Compliance Report

Show Notes for Episode 35, week ending January 13, the Friday the 13th edition  Hernandez and Beech FCPA guilty pleas. Hernandez Criminal Information, Beech Criminal Information. VW guilty plea i...

14 Tammi 201734min

You should work to create a culture of data in your compliance program. This comes from an understanding that data is a product, which you can consume internally in the compliance function. Your data ...

13 Tammi 20179min

You should employ a 6-step process to revising your Code of Conduct. Get buy-in from decision makers at the highest level of the company Your company’s highest level must give the mandate for a re...

12 Tammi 201711min

In this episode, I visit with Sherman & Sterling partner Phillip Urofsky who leads a team which produced the the 2017 FCPA Digest, one of the top annual compendium of annual FCPA reviews of the prior ...

12 Tammi 201735min

In this episode Matt Kelly and myself take a deep dive into the compliance weeds by looking at a paper written by then SEC General Counsel James Doty (later head of the PCAOB) in 2007 where he propose...

11 Tammi 201727min

A company that does not perform adequate due diligence prior to a merger or acquisition may face both legal and business risks. Perhaps, most commonly, inadequate due diligence can allow a course of b...

11 Tammi 201714min

No area has become more challenging in compliance than continuous improvement. The FCPA Guidance specifies that “a good compliance program should constantly evolve. A company’s business changes over t...

10 Tammi 201715min

In this episode I visit with Leona Lewis, the founder and host of the podcast Masters of Disaster. She reflects on her experiences over the past 18 months of podcasting; what she learned, what surpris...

10 Tammi 201724min