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Corporate fraud & corruption

February 2021  |  SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE FRAUD & CORRUPTION

Financier Worldwide Magazine

February 2021 Issue


Corporate fraud & corruption

Q&A: Coordinating cross-border investigations in 2021

FW discusses coordinating cross-border investigations in 2021 with Rahul Mukhi at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Andrew Butel at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, Kerstin Wilhelm at Linklaters LLP, Robert Sikellis at Novartis, and Sarah Foley at Patterson Companies, Inc.

COVID-19 fraud outlook

BDO 2020 is a year that most people will wish to forget and never repeat. A worldwide pandemic has taken more than a million lives, shut down businesses and transportation systems, moved classrooms to computer screens and otherwise ground everyday life…

Regulators on red alert: a tough year ahead

Alvarez & Marsal 2020 has seen businesses in Asia struggling to survive an economic crisis. Businesses already exposed to a trade war between global economic powers and further aggravated by a global pandemic, are striving to regain normal, pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) levels…

Conducting better business bribery risk assessments with corruption typology

TRACE Compliance professionals know that corruption can take many forms. They understand that bribery risk assessment is an individualised process, and thus they must tailor precautions and monitoring to circumstance. But characterising those particularities can be challenging…

An increase in workplace fraud

Shoosmiths In 2019, 929 UK companies were involved in money laundering in England and Wales, and it is estimated that fraud costs individuals and businesses in the UK £130bn a year. At the start of the pandemic and the first lockdown, the warnings to businesses…

Asset recovery in fraud cases

FTI Consulting A lot changed in 2020. The global pandemic has affected us all – how we work, how we shop, even how we communicate. We have adapted our lives in response to ‘the new normal’, so we should not be surprised that corporate fraud too is on the rise as fraudsters adapt…

Crime fighting across borders: what every corporation needs to know

McGuireWoods This article examines the complex area of law enforcement’s approach to investigating and prosecuting cross-border financial crime and identifies key considerations for corporations and their principals and advisers in this ever evolving area.

Germany’s draft Corporate Sanctions Act

Noerr LLP Germany is shortly to introduce a formal criminal liability for corporations. The draft bill of the so-called ‘Act on Sanctions for Corporate Crimes’ is currently being debated in the German federal parliament. It is expected to be adopted in early 2021. The new law will then…

New world, new regulations and new behaviours in the pharmaceutical industry

Polpharma Group 2020 unexpectedly brought us a world of closed offices, travelling bans, restrictions on transportation and meetings and, at the same time, increased expectations with regard to the constant supply of medicinal products that entailed even stronger scrutiny and a higher level of safety. More than ever before people’s lives have depended on the business…

Q&A: AML and sustainable compliance

FW discusses AML and sustainable compliance with Jonathan Ritson-Candler at Latham & Watkins, Lisa Lee Lewis at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, and Jennifer L. Sutton at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.


BY

Alvarez & Marsal

BDO

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

FTI Consulting

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Latham & Watkins

Linklaters LLP

McGuireWoods

Noerr LLP

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Novartis

Patterson Companies, Inc.

Polpharma Group

Shoosmiths

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

TRACE


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