Bribery & Corruption

Cordery Head to Head: Lisa Fine on Compliance, Whistleblowing and Ethics in Business

August 18, 2020

In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Lisa Fine. Lisa is currently Director, Compliance, Americas at Pearson. She was formerly the Director of Global Compliance at Gate Group. Lisa is also the Co-Host of the Great Women in Compliance podcast. Lisa joins us from her home in Read more »

UK Offences of Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion

August 17, 2020

Introduction The notion of failing to prevent an illegal activity has gained legal traction in recent years in the UK, most prominently with the offence of the failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act 2010, against which an “adequate prevention procedures” compliance defence exists. There are also two offences Read more »

Client Alert: SFO secures convictions of two former Oil Executives

July 31, 2020

We first wrote this alert on 20 July and we have updated it to reflect the sentencing hearings. Introduction Two former Unaoil executives were convicted in London on 13 July 2020 of bribing an Iraqi government official to win lucrative oil contracts worth $800 million. Ziad Akle and Stephen Whiteley were found guilty of conspiring Read more »

Cordery Head to Head: Roy Snell on the Role of Compliance in Modern Business

July 28, 2020

In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Roy Snell. Roy Snell recently retired as the CEO of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). Together these associations now total more than 15,000 members. Roy was a co-founder and the Read more »

Client Alert: COVID-19 and Corruption FAQs

July 28, 2020

Introduction We first published this note on 12 May 2020 and have updated it to take into account more recent developments. The current pandemic affects all aspects of the compliance world. In previous alerts we have looked at the effects of the pandemic on data protection (see http://bit.ly/gdprvirus) and modern slavery (https://bit.ly/corderyms19). But what are Read more »

Cordery Head to Head: Christian Hunt on the Use of Behavioural Science in Compliance

July 17, 2020

In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home, Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Christian Hunt. Christian Hunt is the founder of Human Risk Limited, a behavioral science consulting and training firm, specialising in the fields of risk, compliance, conduct and culture. A former regulator, Christian was previously Head of Compliance & Operational Risk Read more »

Everything Compliance – Episode 63 – the Novartis edition

July 16, 2020

Jonathan Armstrong joins leading compliance experts in the US again in the latest Everything Compliance podcast hosted by the Compliance Evangelist Tom Fox. Today, Jonathan and Tom are joined by Jay Rosen, Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks and Mike Volkov discussing various aspects of the Novartis settlements and ending with a veritable mélange of rants and Read more »