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The Federal Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) prohibits a U.S. company or person from bribing foreign government officials to obtain a business advantage. Along with this seemingly simple restriction comes accounting and record keeping requirements with which companies must comply. The FCPA requires the implementation of a compliance program which addresses FCPA concerns and establishes an FCPA corporate policy. This webinar covers the basics of the FCPA, including an introduction to the regulators, both the SEC and DOJ, and recent communications to the public regarding the FCPA from these regulatory bodies. The standards for a compliance program review are analyzed, including what makes a program current and effective as well as how often the program requires review. The role of a compliance coordinator is discussed, as is record keeping, training, and retaliation. Finally, meals and entertainment, gifts, travel, charitable contributions, and hiring are all discussed with reference to recent government actions and legal decisions.
This webinar is delivered in Plain English, understandable to you even if you are not a Business
Law Specialist. It brings you into an engaging, even sometimes humorous, conversation
designed to entertain as it teaches. And, it is specifically designed to be viewed as a stand-alone webinar, meaning that you do not have to view the other webinars in the series to get a lot out of it.
Speaker Information
Moderator:
Rafael Zahralddin-Aravena, Elliott Greenleaf
Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena is a Shareholder, Director, and Chair of his firm’s Commercial Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice. He founded the Elliott Greenleaf Delaware office in 2007, which specializes in business law, as its first Managing Shareholder. He works as a litigator and advises businesses on issues of compliance, corporate formation, corporate governance, insolvency, distressed mergers and acquisition, commercial transactions, cyber law, and international and cross border issues.
He has been lead counsel in several significant matters including serving as special litigation counsel in Washington Mutual, the largest bank insolvency in U.S. history. In the Nortel bankruptcies he successfully secured a settlement of more than $50 million for the permanently disabled former employees of the company. The firm and Mr. Zahralddin were named among the firms that received multiple awards in 2014, culminating in the Large Company Transaction of the Year Award from the Turnaround Management Association for their work in the AgFeed USA, Inc. bankruptcy, which involved the sale of the U.S. and China assets of a publicly traded company. Mr. Zahralddin is the co-editor of the American Bar Association’s book, Reorganizing Failing Businesses and has co-authored several chapters in the treatise. He has recently been named one of the Top 50 Latino Lawyers in the United States by Latino Leaders Magazine, a 2019 Philadelphia Inquirer Influencer of Law, and a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (2019) as a Top Rated Creditor Debtor Rights Attorney. He is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Panelists:
Guillermo Christensen, Partner, Ice Miller LLP
Guillermo Christensen is a partner in the DC and New York offices of Ice Miller LLP and practices in the White Collar and Data Security and Privacy groups. Mr. Christensen is a former CIA intelligence officer and a diplomat with the Department of State with multiple international tours and domestic assignments including with the FBI. Guillermo has conducted numerous sensitive internal investigations on FCPA, OFAC and export control matters for clients in high-risk jurisdictions — he was worked investigations in the Middle East, including in Kurdistan/Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt; in Latin America (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina among many others), Asia and Africa. He also conducts in-depth diligence of third parties for clients, including several in Myanmar, Brunei, Malaysia, China, Chad, Angola, Nigeria, among others. His clients span the energy, transportation, medical, high technology and defense sectors. He also provides market entry counseling to clients, drawing on his broad public and private sector international experience and he designs and implements tailored compliance and ethics programs for small- to large public companies. Drawing on his national security experience he also assists clients (buyer and seller side) in national security reviews of foreign acquisitions through the CFIUS/Treasury Department process. Mr. Christensen previously worked at two international law firms, and most recently, served as the Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the OECD in Paris, France. From 2001-2002, Mr. Christensen was the CIA Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and he subsequently became a life member of the Council. He currently serves on the international advisory board of the Reeves Center at the College of William and Mary. Mr. Christensen holds a BA from The American University, a Masters of Science in Foreign Service and a law degree from Georgetown University. He is licensed to practice in New York, Virginia and Washington DC. Born in Argentina, Guillermo has lived and worked in South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Bio Link: https://www.icemiller.com/people/guillermo-christensen/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/guillermochristensen
Twitter: @GSChristensen
Corey Lee, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP
Corey is a partner in the Miami office of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. Corey has experience conducting internal investigations, including investigations related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), theft of trade secrets, healthcare fraud, False Claims Act and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). He generally works with financial services, health care, consumer and retail companies. Corey also regularly assists his clients with establishing FCPA compliance programs, and provides FCPA compliance training to employees.
Corey also has an active commercial litigation practice, litigating matters arising from information security and data breach incidents, contract disputes, class actions, business torts, securities litigation, product liability litigation, and electronic discovery.
 | | Practice Areas: | | Administrative Law & Regulation, Corporate & Securities | | | Online Media Type: | | Audio | | | Production Date: | | 09/16/2020 3:00 PM EDT | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 0 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | Live | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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