Corporate crime compliance is critical now more than ever to companies, irrespective of size and sector, driven, not only by enforcement and reputational risk, but public and shareholder expectations of good corporate governance. In turn, enforcement authorities around the world have ever higher expectations of corporate compliance programmes. Legislators have focusing on the ‘failure to prevent’ model to drive change to corporate behaviour.
Our global team know how enforcement authorities think. Comprising former regulators and prosecutors within our ranks, we support clients across the range of compliance activity, and at every stage of a compliance challenge; from programme planning and implementation, through mergers and acquisitions, to the implementation of improvements, audit and training.
Remediation
Our global team is also experienced in conducting specific remediation exercises, and in advising on enhancements to compliance programmes and lessons learned. We draw on our deep experience in advising listed and private companies to manage regulatory notifications, advise on market disclosures and to work with clients on the restatement of accounts, and financial remediation.
We advise on:
- Post-acquisition integration
- Monitorships, where there is a non-prosecution outcome
- Look-backs and targeted controls testing
- Compliance programme reviews
- Corporate culture audits
Where appropriate, we partner with internal and external auditors, consultants, and other leading professionals to deliver tailored and effective solutions.
Some examples of our experience include:
- Assisting one of the world's leading energy producers to develop a group compliance policy and an investigations manual, and training its investigation teams on the new procedures;
- Advising a leading global alternative investment management firm on its money laundering prevention systems and controls, including assessing the adequacy of existing controls, drafting a full suite of new policies and procedures, and training senior staff;
- Advising a one of the world's biggest fund and portfolio managers on its money laundering procedures and risk assessments in relation to the firm's European secondary non-performing loan business;
- Advising a UK-listed investment and trading platform on governance, reporting, and risk management issues including financial crime risk, and on amendments to existing policies systems and controls to prevent financial crime; and
- Advising a UK fast moving consumer goods manufacturer under investigation by the SFO in developing an integrated AML, corporate crime, sanctions and ABC policy.
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