FCPA Compliance Report

In this episode, I am joined by Ian McDougall, the General Counsel for LexisNexis. He is also the President of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation. McDougall is also the Chair of the Global Marketing Committee, where responsible for Professional Association relationships and responsible for Global Rule of Law development. McDougall has a uniquely wide ranging and high-level experience in the del...

In the Episode, I am joined by Loren Steffy. I met Loren when he was the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle. Steffy now has his own consulting practice. He has been a long-time business journalist, author and commentator on business issues, generally focusing on energy issues. On the morning of April 19, 1995, he was working for Bloomberg in Dallas Texas and was called by a colleague who...

In the Episode, I am joined by Kevin Abikoff, partner at Hughes Hubbard and Aline Osorio, International Specialist at the firm. The co-authored a very interesting article entitled “Corruption Settlements, Coronavirus And The Road Paved With Good Intentions”. The paper considered where should the proceeds of government enforcement activity be placed and who should get to decide. It was a fascinatin...

In the Episode, I am joined by John Warren Vice President and General Counsel at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). We discuss the 2020 ACFE Report to the Nations, which is the most comprehensive report on the global scourge of fraud. The year’s Report is particularly important with the government bailouts from the fallout of Covid-19. It is a fascinating look of how fraud occurs...

In the Episode, I am joined by Joel Androphy, co-founder at Berg & Androphy. Joel is well-known literally across the country as a white-collar defense lawyer and plaintiff’s counsel in high-profile False Claims Act litigation. With the ongoing Trump Administration’s bailouts and stimulus packages, there will be great temptations for fraud. There have already been several high-profile cases of comp...

In the Episode, I am joined by Mike DeBernardis, Counsel and Hughes Hubbard. We review the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement from Q1 and take a look into that veiled land of the future.  Some of the highlights include: Key highlights from the Cardinal Health SEC enforcement action. The Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action is the largest ever. How can a CCO begin to get t...

In this special podcast series, I visit with lawyers from Azevedo Sette in Sao Paulo. The lawyers and topics include: Isabel Franco on a CarWash changed a culture, Lucas Bianchini on environmental regulation in Brazil, Glaucia Ferreira on the Clean Companies Act, Luiz Salles on recent Brazilian corruption enforcement actions and Ingrid Santos on the hottest topic in Brazil: Me Too and sexual/moral...

In this special podcast series, I visit with lawyers from Azevedo Sette in Sao Paulo. The lawyers and topics include: Isabel Franco on a CarWash changed a culture, Lucas Bianchinni on environmental regulation in Brazil, Glaucia Ferreira on the Clean Companies Act, Luiz Salles on recent Brazilian corruption enforcement actions and Ingrid Santos on the hottest topic in Brazil: Me Too and sexual/mora...

In this special podcast series, I visit with lawyers from Azevedo Sette in Sao Paulo. The lawyers and topics include: Isabel Franco on a CarWash changed a culture, Lucas Bianchinni on environmental regulation in Brazil, Glaucia Ferreira on the Clean Companies Act, Luiz Salles on recent Brazilian corruption enforcement actions and Ingrid Santos on the hottest topic in Brazil: Me Too and sexual/mora...

In this special podcast series, I visit with lawyers from Azevedo Sette in Sao Paulo. The lawyers and topics include: Isabel Franco on a CarWash changed a culture, Lucas Bianchinni on environmental regulation in Brazil, Glaucia Ferreira on the Clean Companies Act, Luiz Salles on recent Brazilian corruption enforcement actions and Ingrid Santos on the hottest topic in Brazil: Me Too and sexual/mora...

In this special podcast series, I visit with lawyers from Azevedo Sette in Sao Paulo. The lawyers and topics include: Isabel Franco on a CarWash changed a culture, Lucas Bianchinni on environmental regulation in Brazil, Glaucia Ferreira on the Clean Companies Act, Luiz Salles on recent Brazilian corruption enforcement actions and Ingrid Santos on the hottest topic in Brazil: Me Too and sexual/mora...

In the Episode, I visit with Susan Divers, Senior Executive at LRN. Susan is one of the leaders of the LNR team which annually produces the Program Effectiveness Report. The 2020 version has been released. We review its key findings and insights as well as the LRN Program Effectiveness Index. Finally, we conclude with a key theme of the Report and discuss why it is such an insight for the complian...

In the Episode, I visit with Pat Harned, President of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI). We discuss ECI’s upcoming virtual conference IMPACT 2020. As the first major compliance annual conference to go virtual, ECI faced unique challenges to bring the top speakers and thought leaders to this event. Find out how they did so as Harned and Tom Fox discuss some of the highlights of this most uni...

In the Episode, I visit with James Koukios, partner at Morrison & Foerster, Editor-in-Chief of the firm’s Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments. We visit about the firm’s Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for February 2020. Some of the highlights include: Lambert Motion for Acquittal Denied. We take a deep dive into the motion and the court’s ruling. Pemex Investigation...

In the Episode, I visit with Karen Woody, Assistant Professor of Law. Her areas of expertise include, Securities Law, Financial Regulation and White-Collar Crime. We visit about the recent Supreme Court argument in the Lui case and how it might (or might not) impact the SEC’s ability to seek profit disgorgement for fraudsters. Some of the highlights include: What is profit disgorgement? Is it diff...

In the Episode, I visit with James Koukios, partner at Morrison & Foerster, Editor-in-Chief of the firm’s Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments. We visit about the firm’s Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for January 2020. Some of the highlights include: Airbus-in this massive and sprawling case, Koukios details what are the 3 key takeaways you would advise a company on...

In this Episode, I visit with Quyen Truong, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in Washington DC. In this podcast we discuss the firm’s recent article on the national impact of this proposed mini-CFPB, part of a major California’s major push to dominate the consumer protection landscape; and the key aspects of the proposed agency expansion, particularly the top enforcement threats facing the in...

In the Episode, I visit with Bryan Sillaman, Managing Partner of the Paris office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed. In this podcast we discuss the French portion of the Airbus anti-corruption enforcement action. Some of the highlights include: Describe the French enforcement authorities and the law under which they investigated and then issued the Judicial Public Interest Agreement with Airbus? What is th...

In this Episode, I visit with Tony Charles, Chief Client Officer at Steele Compliance Solutions, Inc. In this podcast we discuss the firm’s recent article 3rd Party Due Diligence: Creating a Credible and Defensible Program. We use it as an entrée into the topic of 3rd party due diligence.  Some of the highlights include: ·      What was the genesis behind the article 3rd Party Due Diligence: Creat...

In the Episode, I visit with Erica Salmon Byrne, EVP at Ethisphere, Governance and Compliance and Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance. In this podcast we discuss Ethisphere’s 2020 World’s Most Ethical company honorees. Some of the highlights include: What was the Ethical Premium for 2020 honorees? The number of companies and the number of countries represented on this year’s list of h...

In this special 5-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, I am considering the Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action from a variety of perspectives from some of the top world’s top compliance practitioners and commentators on compliance. They include, Jay Rosen-Mr. Monitor; Mike Volkov-Editor of Corruption Crime and Compliance; Jonathan Armstrong-partner at Cordery Com...

In this special 5-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, I am considering the Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action from a variety of perspectives from some of the top world’s top compliance practitioners and commentators on compliance. They include, Jay Rosen-Mr. Monitor; Mike Volkov-Editor of Corruption Crime and Compliance; Jonathan Armstrong-partner at Cordery Com...

In this special 5-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, I am considering the Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action from a variety of perspectives from some of the top world’s top compliance practitioners and commentators on compliance. They include, Jay Rosen-Mr. Monitor; Mike Volkov-Editor of Corruption Crime and Compliance; Jonathan Armstrong-partner at Cordery Com...

In this special 5-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, I am considering the Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action from a variety of perspectives from some of the top world’s top compliance practitioners and commentators on compliance. They include, Jay Rosen-Mr. Monitor; Mike Volkov-Editor of Corruption Crime and Compliance; Jonathan Armstrong-partner at Cordery Com...

In this special 5-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, I am considering the Airbus international anti-corruption enforcement action from a variety of perspectives from some of the top world’s top compliance practitioners and commentators on compliance. They include, Jay Rosen-Mr. Monitor; Mike Volkov-Editor of Corruption Crime and Compliance; Jonathan Armstrong-partner at Cordery Com...