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

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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)

09:00
Registration
09:30
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Azizur Rahman - Senior Partner - Rahman Ravelli (UK)
09:40
Fireside Chat - In Conversation with the SFO
SFO Senior Representative - - SFO (Serious Fraud Office)
10:20
What Corporates Need to do to Avoid Facing a Failure to Prevent Charge
  • 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
11:05
Networking & Refreshment Break
11:25
Compliance in your Supply Chain: Mitigating dangers in High-Risk Jurisdictions and Third Parties
  • 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
12:10
Multijurisdictional Compliance: Navigating Reporting, Investigations, and Conduct Across Multiple Jurisdictions
  • 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)
12:55
Networking & Lunch Break
13:55
Mock Scenario: Managing an Unexpected Crisis

In this session the panel will roleplay a potential real-world crisis scenario to wargame how to handle a crisis in real time.

14:45
Building Effective Whistleblowing Protections and Compliance
  • 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
15:30
Networking & Refreshment Break
15:50
Convergence of ABC and Sanctions Risk Management

  • 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)
16:35
Assessing the use of AI tools in investigations
  • 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
17:20
Chairperson's Summary & Close of Event
Azizur Rahman - Senior Partner - Rahman Ravelli (UK)

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