Douglas Greenburg, Benjamin Naftalis, and Nathan Seltzer of Latham’s White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice look ahead to the enforcement trends facing businesses in 2021.
For companies and their general counsel – as with the rest of the world, generally – 2020 presented unique challenges. As we move through 2021, organisations of all sizes and across all industries face unprecedented forms of scrutiny, liability, and potential “bet-the-company” penalties for misconduct by US and other international regulators. In response to the …
During a pandemic, businesses are looking towards digital solutions to manage their teams. Seshani Bala, group general counsel and corporate assurance at Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand discusses how to manage new cyber security challenges.
Working together is pivotal for companies wanting to protect against white collar crime. Sergey Vitorov, legal and compliance and quality director at NOVO Nordisk discusses how and why compliance and legal teams should take a collaborative approach.
The Australian financial sector has gone through a major regulatory overhaul after allegations of misconduct were exposed through a Royal Commission. GC magazine investigates the impacts of these reforms on the role of general counsel.
Given the potential for external investigations and prosecutions to severely impact an organisation, efforts to prevent, respond to and mitigate this risk will naturally extend beyond just the legal team. Bringing in external counsel seems inevitable, but at what stage should the in-house team seek outside assistance?
Dealing with bribery and corruption is a game that FIFA cannot afford to lose. Oliver Jaberg, Deputy Chief Legal & Compliance Officer and Director of Integrity & Anti-doping, shares how he continues to score goals for his legal team.
GC surveyed top in-house counsel around the world to understand how businesses prepare for white collar and general investigatory risk, revealing little uniformity across companies and jurisdictions alike.
The world is evolving, and white-collar crime remains a forefront concern for many general counsel. Discussing why that may be the case is Ritankar Sahu, general counsel and head of compliance at MAXpower in Singapore.
As cryptocurrencies continue to proliferate, concerns about their vulnerability to criminal money laundering are becoming more common. GC talks to counsel from the crypto eco-system about how big of a problem money laundering is for crypto, and how in-house teams can prevent it.