Learn from an experienced panel that includes:
- Senior DOJ and SEC enforcement attorneys
- Lead director and audit committee chair
- FCPA-experienced general and counsel
Topics include:
The long arm of anti-corruption enforcement
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- 2007—a landmark year in FCPA enforcement: a record number of prosecutions and the highest penalties in history
- Global anti-corruption legislation: The impact of global OECD Anti-Bribery Convention signatories and SOX
SEC and DOJ priorities in 2008 and 2009
- “Cooperation” and “self-reporting” with SEC and DOJ: Pros and cons
Lessons from Samsung, Siemens, Titan, Vetco, and Baker Hughes enforcement actions
- Record penalties: Indications that the Baker Hughes record $44 million penalty will be eclipsed
- Other costs of anti-corruption violations
- Exposure for individuals: Loss of reputation; civil and criminal liability
- M&A diligence: How to uncover FCPA compliance issues and what to do about them
- Parent company and employee liability for acts of subsidiaries and portfolio investment companies
Effective compliance programs
- Examples and solutions from panelists’ real-life experiences
- What effort and expense is reasonable or justified?
“Doing the right thing” and other ethical dilemmas
- The slippery slope: Becoming “part of the problem” rather than “part of the solution”
“When to voluntarily disclose (or not)?” …that is the question
Effective fraud and corruption prevention
- Examples and solutions from panelists’ real-life examples
how to react when you think you have a problem
Who Should Attend:
- Chief Financial Officers
- Members of Audit Committees and Governance Committees
- General Counsels
- Heads of International Business Units or Operations
- Controllers/Principal Accounting Officers
- Internal Audit Staffs
- Compliance Officers
- Ethics Officers
- Outside Auditors
- Outside Counsel
Speakers:
- Marc J. Fagel, Associate Regional Director, Securities and Exchange Commission
- Robert J. Finocchio, Jr. , Director, Altera Corporation, Echelon Corporation, Sun Microsystems
- Paul T. Friedman, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Byron W. Milstead, General Counsel, Lattice Semiconductor
- Adam A. Reeves, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice