Brown Rudnick
The Anti-Bribery & Corruption Forum 2025 - 2nd Annual
Enhancing Practical Responses to Mitigating Corporate Crime.
In-Person | 18th March 2025 | The Dilly
Complimentary attendance for In-House Counsel, Regulatory Authorities and Government Representatives
Agenda
Registration
09:00
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:30
Azizur Rahman, Senior Partner
Rahman Ravelli (UK)
Fireside Chat - In Conversation with the SFO
09:40
SFO Senior Representative,
SFO (Serious Fraud Office)
What Corporates Need to do to Avoid Facing a Failure to Prevent Charge
10:20
- Assessing the effectiveness and reasonableness of new guidance to avoid Failure to Prevent Charges
- What changes have corporates made to avoid charges following the 6-month grace period?
- Are there gaps in the guidance or improvements needed as things stand?
Ken Gazzaway, Global Head of ABC & Compliance
Corio Generation
Andrew Reeves, Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Networking & Refreshment Break
11:05
Compliance in your Supply Chain: Mitigating dangers in High-Risk Jurisdictions and Third Parties
11:25
- Shifting from a compliance to active investigative approach to mitigating risk
- Identifying where the highest risk is for you or your clients
- Mitigating risk from third parties with inadequate compliance programmes or in hard to investigate jurisdictions
Eve Giles, Partner
A&O Shearman
Barry Vitou, Partner
HFW
Multijurisdictional Compliance: Navigating Reporting, Investigations, and Conduct Across Multiple Jurisdictions
12:10
- Getting Evidence Across Jurisdictions
- Working across jurisdictions with conflicting compliance requirements
- Ensuring you’re maintaining reporting and conduct requirements across multiple jurisdictions
Francesco Sbisà , Partner
BonelliErede (Italy)
Peter Lu, Partner, Global Head of China Practice
McDermott Will & Emery
Dipo Akin-Deko, Head of Legal Affairs
BowerGroupAsia (USA)
Networking & Lunch Break
12:55
Mock Scenario: Managing an Unexpected Crisis
13:55
In this session the panel will roleplay a potential real-world crisis scenario to wargame how to handle a crisis in real time.
Building Effective Whistleblowing Protections and Compliance
14:45
- The impact of a potential US style whistleblower rewards programme on the UK
- Encouraging a corporate culture supporting speaking out against bad practice to reduce the need for blowing the whistle
- Assessing the effectiveness of the EU Whistleblower Directive
- Duty to disclose in supervision to avoid culpability as a ‘Professional Enabler’
Mary Inman, Partner
Whistleblower Partners (USA)
Andrew Pepper-Parsons, Director of Policy
Protect
Networking & Refreshment Break
15:30
Convergence of ABC and Sanctions Risk Management
15:50
- The overlap and interplay of modern sanctions regimes and ABC compliance
- Adapting compliance risk management frameworks to identify and manage both ABC and evolving sanctions risks
- Adapting to sanctions against whole sectors which were traditionally immune
Paul Feldberg, Partner
Brown Rudnick
Elena Fedorova , Lawyer - Of Counsel
Bonifassi Avocats (France)
James G. Tillen, Member
Miller & Chevalier (USA)
Assessing the use of AI tools in investigations
16:35
- Effectively using AI in White Collar Crime investigations to enhance the use of established tools
- When can AI beat humans in eDiscovery and data analysis, and the where is the human touch still needed?
- Wider emerging technology to watch to improve your investigatory toolkit
Clara Poglia, Partner, Co-Head of the Dispute Resolution Group
Schellenberg Wittmer (Switzerland)
Caroline Greenwell, Partner
Charles Russell Speechlys
Chairperson's Summary & Close of Event
17:20
Azizur Rahman, Senior Partner
Rahman Ravelli (UK)
SFO Senior Representative - - SFO (Serious Fraud Office)
- Assessing the effectiveness and reasonableness of new guidance to avoid Failure to Prevent Charges
- What changes have corporates made to avoid charges following the 6-month grace period?
- Are there gaps in the guidance or improvements needed as things stand?
Andrew Reeves - Partner - Norton Rose Fulbright
- Shifting from a compliance to active investigative approach to mitigating risk
- Identifying where the highest risk is for you or your clients
- Mitigating risk from third parties with inadequate compliance programmes or in hard to investigate jurisdictions
Barry Vitou - Partner - HFW
- Getting Evidence Across Jurisdictions
- Working across jurisdictions with conflicting compliance requirements
- Ensuring you’re maintaining reporting and conduct requirements across multiple jurisdictions
Peter Lu - Partner, Global Head of China Practice - McDermott Will & Emery
Dipo Akin-Deko - Head of Legal Affairs - BowerGroupAsia (USA)
In this session the panel will roleplay a potential real-world crisis scenario to wargame how to handle a crisis in real time.
- The impact of a potential US style whistleblower rewards programme on the UK
- Encouraging a corporate culture supporting speaking out against bad practice to reduce the need for blowing the whistle
- Assessing the effectiveness of the EU Whistleblower Directive
- Duty to disclose in supervision to avoid culpability as a ‘Professional Enabler’
Andrew Pepper-Parsons - Director of Policy - Protect
- The overlap and interplay of modern sanctions regimes and ABC compliance
- Adapting compliance risk management frameworks to identify and manage both ABC and evolving sanctions risks
- Adapting to sanctions against whole sectors which were traditionally immune
Elena Fedorova - Lawyer - Of Counsel - Bonifassi Avocats (France)
James G. Tillen - Member - Miller & Chevalier (USA)
- Effectively using AI in White Collar Crime investigations to enhance the use of established tools
- When can AI beat humans in eDiscovery and data analysis, and the where is the human touch still needed?
- Wider emerging technology to watch to improve your investigatory toolkit
Caroline Greenwell - Partner - Charles Russell Speechlys
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