This to-go guide provides a handy reminder of key elements of your company’s FCPA compliance policy and is designed to help employees ensure they make a habit of considering all potential corruption ...
This check card is a printable resource with practical advice for the dos and don'ts of dealing with foreign officials.
This multi-jurisdictional InfoPAK gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power throughout the globe. In particular, it covers the regulatory authorities ...
The purpose of this InfoPAK is to assist corporate counsel in understanding and making decisions about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and global anti-corruption law. Included is a summary of the ...
Sep 2013
QuickCounsel
This QuickCounsel examines Brazil’s new Anticorruption Law, compares it to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “FCPA”) and to the UK Bribery Act 2010 (the “Bribery Act”), and offers suggestions ...
Apr 2013
QuickCounsel
This QuickCounsel provides a brief overview of the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission's Resource Guide to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Includes tips on the dangers ...
Oct 2011
QuickCounsel
This QuickCounsel reviews the FCPA liability risk involved in mergers and acquisitions and discusses strategies in-house counsel can use to avoid that risk.
Jun 2011
QuickCounsel
This QuickCounsel discusses the major differences between the UK Bribery Act and the FCPA in the United States. The discussion covers giving and receiving bribes, failing to prevent bribery, business ...
Jun 2011
QuickCounsel
This QuickCounsel provides a summary of the key provisions of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Convention on Combating Bribery of ...
Jan 2010
QuickCounsel
How to deal with bribery of officials when dealing in international business transactions.
Hear ACC members discuss practical considerations that in-house counsel of small and mid-sized organizations should keep in mind when developing a compliance program. Length: 4 minutes.
Hear ACC members discuss how in-house counsel should proactively engage the business teams to take ownership of the organization's compliance. Length: 3.5 minutes.
Hear ACC members discuss practical tips on how to create a speak-up culture that empowers employees and allows the organization to better identify and address compliance issues. Length: 4.5 minutes. ...
Hear ACC members discuss the expectations and fiduciary duty placed on the board of directors regarding the organization's compliance, and the role of in-house counsel in providing the right level ...
Hear ACC members discuss practical tips and strategies for in-house counsel to educate the board of directors regarding compliance, and to report to the board regarding the organization's risk and ...
Hear ACC members discuss how the in-house compliance function is evolving, and what factors drive this evolution. Length: 5 minutes.
Trend Watch - Emerging Compliance Risks That Will Impact Your Program
Hear from ACC members about how they mitigate risks associated with bribery and corruption. Learn what they think is most effective and how they help business leaders and employees understand the ...
Hear from ACC members about the impact that bribery and corruption has on all stakeholders, including the organization that pays the bribe, the local communities, and the people who live under corrupt ...
Hear from ACC members about the risks that third party relationships create for organizations. Find out what common misperceptions they address in their own organizations, and how they mitigate risk ...
Hear from ACC members about how they mitigate risks associated with bribery and corruption. Learn what they think is most effective and how they help business leaders and employees understand the ...
Hear from ACC peers about the business risks associated with working with third parties and learn how they are mitigating risk for their organizations. Length: 4 minutes.
Hear from ACC peers about how globalization has created new challenges and opportunities for ethics and compliance professionals. Find out how they are responding to the challenges and providing ...
This overview provides a brief roadmap of the important elements of a comprehensive FCPA program, and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure they have considered all of the issues. A ...
This sample provision illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure ...
This sample filing illustrates how to implement a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure ...
This sample provision illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure ...
This sample provision illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure ...
This sample filing language illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ...
This sample request form illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ...
This sample certification language illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ...
This sample CEO message illustrates how to incorporate an important element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance plan and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure ...
This sample checklist illustrates how to implement a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program, and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure they have considered all of the issues. ...
Review key provisions of the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, CFPOA, OECD, Brazil’s anticorruption law and others; highlight the extraterritoriality of each regulation and the impact on global businesses, incorporating ...
The Anti-Corruption Law entered into force in Brazil last month. Under the new law, parent companies, subsidiaries, other affiliates and consortiums are jointly and severally liable for payment of ...
Cross-border compliance obligations for multi-nationals means a lot more headaches for in-house litigators tasked with managing cross-border discovery. Discovery obligations vary from country to ...
Hot topics covered include Dodd-Frank whistleblower regulation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and data privacy issues and regulations both domestic and global.
Jun 2013
Top Ten
Ten issues and developments in-house counsel should consider when reviewing their potential FCPA liability.
This article focuses on how companies need to navigate carefully any business relationship involving members of the Middle East region's royal families so that compensation or other benefits conveyed ...
This interview with Therese Lee, global ethics & compliance counsel at Google, Inc., focuses on her travels, her anti-bribery checklist, and overall, how she manages her compliance program.
The objective of this report is to establish a baseline of current due-diligence practices of downstream companies. This report includes baseline information from 28 of the 30 participating companies, ...
Jul 2012
Leading Practices Profile
Members Only
This Leading Practices Profile provides practical information on the procedures that six companies are following to ensure compliance with global anti-corruption and anti-bribery requirements. Featured ...
McMillan's presentation for the conference entitled "doing it right – how to comply with Canadian, American and UK anti-corruption legislation" (2012) This presentation provides an interesting overview ...
McMillan's presentation for the conference entitled "Doing it right – how to comply with Canadian, American and UK anti-corruption legislation" (2012). It covers the history behind these laws as ...
This is a sample Anti-Corruption Compliance Policy, which provides a comprehensive framework for promoting effective compliance with anti-corruption laws and regulations.
May 2012
Quick Reference
Members Only
The following article presents an overview of the general anti-corruption regulatory régime. It then proceeds to suggest and discuss several best practices that in-house counsel can incorporate into ...
Discuss what compliance issues the Feds are focused on right now, and what you can do to protect your company. Learn about companies and in-house counsel who have suffered the consequences of non-compliance ...
Jun 2011
Top Ten
This article contains ten FCPA basics small legal departments need to be aware of to stay compliant.
Feb 2011
Top Ten
This Top Ten outlines several key compliance-related developments specific to Latin America as well as other important compliance developments around the world that have critical implications for ...
Mar 2010
Top Ten
Top ten tips on developing a responsive FCPA compliance policy and verification plan.
With more companies seeking growth through cross-border mergers and
acquisitions and with the unwavering intolerance of U.S. regulators and, to a growing degree, foreign regulators on corrupt practices ...
A management compliance policy for use by the legal department as a training aid to familiarize employees with laws applicable to their employment. Laws of particular concern include: FCPA, ITAR, ...
It is an increasingly global age where more companies are doing business overseas, and a greater number of foreign companies are SEC registrants. As a result, in-house counsel must face the challenge ...
A comprehensive guide to the requirements, scope, penalties, and legal implications of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States.
Cash in the freezer is not a new idea. This CSI-style analysis of a bribery schemes will show you how the subject of bribes is first raised, how the details are negotiated, how the money is moved ...
Provides a brief overview of the essentials of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a summary of the most current global developments in global anti-bribery enforcement, and a basic checklist on the ...
Bribes of any kind are wrong, right? Well, not the small "facilitation payments" allowed under the FCPA exception. Learn why making these small payments can lead to big problems and ways that companies ...
Includes: a checklist for contracting with foreign entities, sample large company policy (FCPA, General Motors), sample small company policy (FCPA, eBrary), sample contract language for FCPA Compliance ...
This Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance global policy manual outlines responsibility, authority and corporate procedures. Also included are forms for annual certification for non-U.S. sales ...
