This is reference list for Session 906: What Keeps You Up at Night Regarding Your Employee Benefit Plans? How Much Could Non-compliance Really Cost?
This self-compliance tool is intended to help group health plans, plan sponsors, plan administrators, health insurance issuers, and other parties determine whether a group health plan is in compliance with some of the provisions of Part 7 of ERISA.
This article shows 10 things you should know about EU data protection reform.
This is a proposed outline for a seminar on antitrust compliance programs.
This article lists the nine unique challenges that may arise post-closing after a U.S.-based entity acquires a business operating outside the United States.
This is a sample integration checklist.
This is a comparison chart that highlights the various structure, liability, tax and management differences among C-corporations, S-corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.
This session will focus on the legal and ethical aspects of integrating a newly acquired company, with a focus on how to do this within the resources of a small legal department. Many in-house practitioners in smaller departments use outside counsel for an acquisition, but receive little support once the deal is closed. Discover issues that need to be addressed in the first seven, 30, 60 and 180 days, such as developing a playbook for merger integration; human resources issues to address; state regulatory issues and issues involved in acquiring the new business’ contractual obligations. Also included will be a discussion of integrating a newly acquired foreign enterprise, including cultural minefields to consider and avoid.
While appearances may suggest that enterprise risk management (ERM) and governance risk and compliance (GRC) aim to solve for the same problems, they are arguably separate processes with different approaches and objectives. This session will review the differences between ERM and GRC approaches and assessments, and reveal how to identify which may be best suited to align with your company’s compliance program.
Rulings on attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine occur daily in the federal and state courts. New law is continually being made on the scope of these protections for companies and their counsel in areas like internal investigations, the legal vs. business advice distinction, the crime-fraud and fiduciary exceptions, subject-matter and at issue waiver, the common interest and joint client exceptions, global privilege issues and intra-law firm privilege. In a Jeopardy! format, this interactive presentation will examine the latest developments in privilege law as well as the professional ethics rules governing confidentiality (i.e., ABA Model Rules 1.6 and 1.13) — including cases in which ACC has weighed in as amicus — and recommend best practices to preserve the attorney-client privilege and the confidentiality of work product.