Compliance & Investigations
Our areas of work include:
- Designing and implementing compliance programs under the framework governing corporate criminal liability
- Developing risk matrices by business line, geography, and counterparty
- Drafting codes of conduct and policies on gifts, hospitality, conflicts of interest, and dealings with the public sector, taking into account the rules governing ethics in public office
- Implementing ethics hotlines and protocols for receiving, triaging, and escalating reports of misconduct
- Conducting internal investigations and interviews, and preparing reports for boards of directors and audit committees
- Conducting integrity due diligence on representatives, distributors, local partners, and target companies
- Drafting integrity clauses, anti-corruption representations and warranties, and indemnification provisions in acquisition transactions
- Advising entities subject to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements, including on the compliance officer’s role, beneficial ownership identification, and the treatment of politically exposed persons
- Advising on integrity in government contracting and public procurement processes
- Analyzing the extraterritorial reach of U.S. and U.K. anti-corruption laws and international sanctions regimes
- Training boards of directors, management, and sales teams
