May 31, 2016
Partners Peter Burrell and Martin Weinstein spoke at the C5 10th Annual International Conference on Anti-Corruption in London.
Partner Peter Burrell, who heads Willkie’s Litigation, Compliance and Enforcement, and White Collar Defense Practices in London, participated on the panel "Managing your Own Employee Risks and Those Associated with Hiring Interns: What Government Now Expects for Employee Screening, Compensation – and How to Use HR as a Gatekeeper.” The panel addressed such topics as:
- What recent cases in Asia and in the USA reveal about prosecutor priorities and expectations for employee screening
- Understanding HR’s role in training and screening employees and potential hires
- What a system of internal accounting controls on hiring practices look like
- How to align compliance performance factors with compensation structures
- How compensation structures can impact employee behaviour
Partner Martin Weinstein, who leads the firm's Compliance & Enforcement Practice Group, served as interviewer for “A Q&A with US DOJ and SEC Prosecutors: Cooperation, Compliance, Internal Controls Expectations and the Increased Liability of Individuals.” The Q&A session explored:
- Key FCPA cases and how enforcement approaches continue being refined
- US DOJ expectations of companies to be eligible to cooperation credit as per the Yates Memo – how much credit can be practically earned?
- Benefits of voluntary disclosure
- The focus on “egregious criminal conduct”: how cases are evaluated and resolved
- How will DOJ approach resolutions involving non-US enforcement agencies?
- Continued enforcement of the books and records provisions by the SEC and going forward
- Increased focus on enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector
For more details about the event, please click here.
