FCPA Compliance Report

In this episode, I have New Yorker writer and reporter Adam Davidson on his recent article entitled, "Piercing the Veil of Secrecy Shrouding the Trump Deal in the Republic of Georgia”. In this article Davidson looks at some of the business practices of the Trump organization Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 360-degree approach to compliance works with all the stakeholders in a compliance program, even the Document Document Document stakeholders; IE., the regulators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the more difficult things to predict in a merger and acquisition context is how the cultures of the two entities will merge. Further, while many mergers claim to be a ‘merger of equals’ the reality is far different as there is always one corporate winner that continues to exist and one corporate loser that simply ceases to exist. This is true across industries and countries; witness the deb...

What will be the fate of the Justice Department's Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs going forward under the Sessions Department of Justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do people share? The answer to that question has important implications for the compliance function. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am a huge fan of using social media in your compliance function. I often point to Louis Sapirman, the Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Dun & Bradstreet, as an example of a company and CCO that has embraced the use of social media to advance their best practices compliance program. But how can you get your arms around how to structure such a program for th...

In this episode, I visit Lauren Briggerman and Dawn Murphy-Johnson on the Fall 2017 issue of Executives at Risk. It is newsletter put out by the law firm of Miller & Chevalier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the top compliance and ethics related stories for the week ending November 3, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does one company and one Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) actively use social media to make more effective the company’s compliance culture. The company is the Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and its CCO, Louis Sapirman, whom I visited with about his company’s integration of social media into compliance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode I visit with Stuart Levine. We focus on Board optimization and try to answer the question of why your Board is not optimized. We consider what is an optimized board and are you serving on one?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the message of compliance inside of a corporation and how it is distributed? In a compliance program, the largest portion of your consumers/customers are your employees. Social media presents some excellent mechanisms to communicate the message of compliance going forward. Many of the applications that we use in our personal communication are free or available at very low cost. So why not...

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the scandal around Harvey Weinstein. We consider it from the compliance perspective, both programatic and for the CCO. We consider the different types of harassment which comes may face claims of from the fallout. We also consider the Board response by The Weinstein Company board and for the claims involving Bill O'Reilly.  Learn more about y...

Welcome to Day One of 360-degrees of communication in compliance. This month you will learn about techniques that the CCO can use to provide you not only a well-rounded role as a CCO but also facilitate a much more holistic approach to compliance in your organization. Best of all the techniques, discussed are largely available to you at little to no cost. T Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The key insight for this month is that business ventures, whether joint ventures (JVs), partnerships, franchises, team agreements, strategic alliances or one of the myriad types of business relationships a US company can form outside the US are different than the usual risk presented by third parties. The problems for companies is that they tend to treat business venture risk the same as third par...

n this episode, I visit with Doreen Edelman, a partner at Baker Donelson. We discuss the current state of NAFTA negotiations and some of the key issues together with important dates and milestones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most franchisors have thorough financial vetting requirements before allowing any person or business to become a franchisee. However, how many of these same businesses perform compliance due diligence on their prospective overseas franchises? How many US franchisors have compliance training programs? How many evaluate, on an ongoing basis, the compliance program of their overseas franchisees? Lear...

We consider the recent speech by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on the comprehensive review the Justice Department will go through looking at various and sometimes disparate Memos regarding corporate and individual prosecutions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am often asked about franchisor liability under the FCPA. Franchising has been a successful model in the US and now many corporations are looking at overseas expansion opportunities. Franchise law has become well developed across the US, with many states developing laws to protect the rights and obligations of both parties in a franchise agreement. This will impact potential FCPA liability. Lear...

In this episode of This Week in FCPA, Jay Rosen and I discuss a wide range of FCPA, compliance and ethics related topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many compliance practitioners generally view distributors as a part of their third-party risk management program, with most of their attention to the pre-contract phase of the risk management process. Typically, most of the efforts are spent on due diligence with less on managing the relationship after the contract is signed.  However, many facets of a corporate relationship with a distributor are...

In this episode, we report from the SCCE 2017 Compliance and Ethics Institute, which was recently concluded in Las Vegas. We are joined by Roy Snell, the President of SCCE. We all relate some of our highlights of this year's events and look at some of the most recent compliance and ethics stories which caught our collective eyes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I consider the book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. It focuses two different types of leaders, Diminishers and Multipliers. Multipliers are leaders who encourage growth and creativity from their workers, while Diminishers are those who hinder and otherwise keep their employees’ productivity at a minimum. The authors give what they consider to be solutions...

One area not usually considered around your business venture partner is their financial health. It turns out such an oversight may have some significantly ramifications for an accurate picture of a business venture partner. The financial health of a business venture partner as not only a key metric but also a key tool which allows a more robust assessment prior to contract signing and in managing...

One area not often considered by the CCO as a key part of any compliance regime is the corporate Controller. The Controller generally has the responsibility to accurately record and report the financial transactions of the company, to design, implement and execute the financial processes and controls of the company to be both effective and efficient, and to safeguard the financial assets of the co...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Compliance Man Goes Global podcast of FCPA Compliance Report International Edition. In this episode, we will focus on typical myths and mistakes regarding compliance trainings. We will do it in plain language so to say and in the simple game form. Moreover, to make the podcast handy and more appealing we attach respective illustration from the Compliance Man illustrated ser...