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Compliance Challenges for In-House Counsel - Should ethical standards for conducting business be different from country to country?
Should ethical standards for conducting business be different from country to country? Since human behaviour in general must conform to ethics, a first answer seems to be "no". However, there...Read more
Karina Pelaez
Legal Assistant Manager & Chief Compliance Officer, Toyota Compañia Financiera de Argentina S.A., Argentina
The Siemens Compliance System: 'Prevent - Detect - Respond and Continuous Improvement'
The current Siemens Compliance System was developed in 2007 and 2008, initially in response to criminal investigations undertaken by the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Munich, the US Securities...Read more
Klaus Moosmayer
Chief Compliance Officer, Siemens, Germany
Josef Winter
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), Siemens, Germany
Compliance: A Restated Definition
It is commonly accepted to state that ethics refers to shared values. It is in essence a values – based approach. . It appeals to one’s sense of ethics,...Read more
Guido De Clerq
Deputy Secretary General, GDF Suez, France
Role of In-House Counsel in Transnational Operations
A fundamental role of in-house legal counsel is to assist the operations teams in identifying, assessing and tailoring their procedures to ensure compliance with applicable requirements and to address the...Read more
Philip Kessack
Vice President and Senior Legal Counsel, AECOM Technology Corporation, USA
How to Set-up a Compliance Function and Make it a Strategic Partner to an Organisation
Over the past few years, we have witnessed a great deal of corporate scandals from financial and non-financial institutions which were caused in part by failures of corporate culture, ethics...Read more
Robert Payawal
Legal and Compliance Manager, Abu Dhabi Finance, UAE
Introducing, Implementing and Improving Compliance; Challenges in Cross Boarder Environment and Market Entry Situations
During previous years, the M&A transaction field has been less active. Nevertheless the market is starting to merge again and transactions are appearing on the desks of in-house counsels. In...Read more
Diana Maher
Senior Legal Counsel, Kone Corporation, Finland
Compliance in the Insurance Sector
Compliance, as an autonomous concept and with its own implementation rules, is relatively new in the Italian legal framework.
The objectives that are assigned to a compliance department nowadays were, in...Read more
Paolo Amato
General Counsel, Old Mutual Wealth Italy SpA, Italy
The Impact of the Fraud and Abuse Laws on Pharmaceutical Advertising and Marketing Compliance: A Manufacturer's Perspective
The intersection between the health care fraud and abuse laws and pharmaceutical marketing practices in the U.S. raises interesting compliance issues for pharmaceutical manufacturers, particularly in light of the newly...Read more
Leslie Restaino
General Counsel, Validus Pharmaceuticals, USA
Co-Ordinating and Managing a Corporate Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD) Compliance Programme
The Insurance Mediation Directive (the ‘IMD’) was implemented across the European Union and European Economic Areas (‘Member States’) in order to remove restrictions on the freedom, and ability of...Read more
Ifeanyi Uyanneh
Director, Compliance, Affinion International Limited, UK
Formulating a Whistleblowing Policy and it's Implementation
In line with best international governance practices, all enterprises, throughout the world, would like to put in place a system through which employees and its business associates may report unethical...Read more
Bala Balakrishnan
In-House Counsel, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, India