Day 28 | Post-acquisition integration plan
Your company has just made its largest acquisition ever and your CEO says they want you to have a compliance post-acquisition integration plan on their desk in one week. Where do you begin? A good pla...
28 Jan 20209min
Day 27 | Pre-acquisition due diligence in mergers and acquisitions
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 br...
27 Jan 20209min
Philip Urofsky on the Shearman & Sterling 2020 FCPA Digest
In the Episode, I visit with Philip Urofsky, partner at Shearman & Sterling, Editor-in-Chief of the firm’s most excellent FCPA Digest. We visit about the firm’s 2020 FCPA Digest, Recent Trends and Pat...
27 Jan 202036min
Day 26 | Operationalizing compliance through payroll
One of the areas articulated in the 2019 Guidance was around payments and payroll. For the both the compliance professional and the corporate payroll function, there is a significant role to play in t...
26 Jan 20209min
Day 25 | Compliance function in an organization
The role of the compliance professional and the compliance function in a corporation has steadily grown in stature and prestige over the years. When it came to the corporate compliance function, 2012 ...
25 Jan 20209min
Day 24 | CCO authority and independence
The role of the CCO has steadily grown in stature and prestige over the years. In the 2012 FCPA Guidance, under Hallmark Three of the Ten Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance Program, it focused on th...
24 Jan 20209min
Day 23 | Updates and feedback
One of the critical elements found in the 2019 Guidance is the need to use the information you obtain, whether through risk assessment, root cause analysis, investigation, hotline report or any other ...
23 Jan 20209min
Day 22 | Assessing compliance internal controls
Control Testing – Has the company reviewed and audited its compliance program in the area relating to the misconduct? More generally, what testing of controls, collection and analysis of compliance da...
22 Jan 20209min
