Compliance and Advisory

We advice on a broad range of compliance and advisory issues, including those associated with anti-corruption laws, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws, competition laws and many other regulatory regimes. Our compliance and advisory team offers clients an abundance of experience, including current and former lawyers who have held prominent positions with law enforcement agencies and financial regulators, including the SEC, DOJ, Treasury, FDIC, OFAC and CFTC.

Our lawyers help clients anticipate and comply with the evolving and heightened standards of government regulators.We routinely advise leading multinational corporations on the full spectrum of design, enhancement and implementation of effective compliance programs. We draw on our deep bench of experience when developing policies and procedures.

In conducting risk assessments, we work closely with management, business stakeholders and in-house counsel to identify issues that pose the highest risks for potential violations and to develop a sustainable, best-in-class compliance program that leverages the existing work and resources of the company.

The objective of an effective compliance program is to prevent, detect and remediate potential violations of laws and regulations that pose legal, regulatory, operational and reputational risk to the company. To meet this objective, our methodology includes designing a program with the full lifecycle of compliance in mind, considering all of the key elements, including:

We maintain close contacts with regulators and hence understand government, business and policy environments in which the decisions affecting our clients are made.