The economic literature explains that most markets tend towards oligopoly over the longer term. This does not necessarily imply that competition is impaired.
With the steady increase of global regulation and enforcement across all industries in today’s commercial world, the conduct by companies of independent and credible internal investigations is swiftly being recognised as a standalone area of expertise
In a noteworthy trend picked-up by Trace International’s Global Enforcement Report, in 2014 non-U.S. enforcement actions concerning bribery of…
We asked Mini vandePol (Head of the Baker & McKenzie Global and Asia-Pacific Compliance Practice Group) and Joanna Ludlam (Head of the Baker & McKenzie EMEA Compliance Practice Group) 10 questions about current compliance trends and developments. Here are their answers which every compliance professional should read attentively: Mini vandePol (Hong Kong)…
We rarely think about emergencies before they arrive on our doorstep. Yet, the recent civil unrest in Baltimore…
Effectively managing corporate compliance efforts in today’s regulatory environment–preventing corporate officers and employee from engaging in illegal practices,…
Various countries and their compliance-enforcing agencies request that companies have “adequate” compliance programs and organizations. But what does that mean? One option to determine whether a compliance program and organization is adequate is to compare the company’s own program and organization with the compliance efforts of other companies (industry standard).…
At today’s meeting of the European Foreign Affairs Council (“FAC”), the EU reiterated its readiness to designate “spoilers of the…