For many years, the United States drove global anti-corruption efforts through vigorous enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. More recently, other jurisdictions have begun to assert themselves in the anti-corruption arena. Brazil joined those countries in 2014 by enacting a tough new anti-corruption law. This program will cover the main aspects addressed in the new law such as the penalties imposed, incentives for companies to establish and enforce effective compliance programs, leniency provisions and incentives for companies to self-report violations, impact on multinational companies doing business in Brazil and how they can prepare their existing compliance programs, impact on companies conducting internal investigations in Brazil and other relevant aspects.
This panel will cover a wide range of issues relevant to in-house counsel including: dealing with seller-friendly deal environment; the role of in-house counsel in M&A; opportunities and pitfalls with earn-outs and other purchase price adjustment provisions; current due diligence hot button issues (including FCPA, OFAC and cybersecurity); shareholder activism; and lessons learned from recent M&A litigation.
This session will raise common ethical issues faced by in-house counsel and discuss best practices for handling those issues, while helping you comply with MRCP 1.13 regarding organization as client.
This panel of attorneys from medium and large legal departments will share strategies for processing high-volume transactions (sales agreements, procurement agreements and NDAs) more efficiently. They will discuss their approaches to improving quality and reducing cycle times. These strategies include applying business process improvement methodologies, such as Six Sigma and Lean, to the contracting process; developing forms and playbooks to empower non-attorneys (including legal process outsourcing) to make decisions; establishing risk thresholds and approval criteria and more.
The session will operate at two simultaneous levels. First, the tables (companies) in the room will comprise a market and will need to make strategic choices to deal with market-wide developments. Second, because each person at the table will represent a different member of the management team, participants will need to work together to make good decisions.
This presentation teaches how to manage the work of your legal department like a business unit – with effective project management techniques, and best practices to implement changes in your legal department.
It’s a bad day, the eve of your company’s merger. You are a high-profile corporate lawyer working for a global brand and you just learned that personal data believed to have been stolen from your cloud computing account has been posted on WhoNeedsTheLaw.com, apparently exposing your name, entire work email inbox, phone number and scandalous images secured by a hacker accessing the camera on your laptop computer. The data includes a private dialogue between you and the outside company about the liabilities of taking on the merger. What would you do? This interactive session will cover emerging executive liability issues and test how effectively you can navigate risk with real-life scenarios and video vignettes.
This presentation provides information on how situational factors can foster the development of leadership competencies and character.
Developing exceptional listening skills and the ability to harness one’s emotional intelligence is essential to a successful in-house career. A diverse mix of EI gurus will wrap up this intensive day by providing helpful tips for building sincere connections and forging new relationships outside of your “comfort zone” that you can put into practice once you return to the office.
Attendees will choose among a number of roundtable discussion topics, each involving a creative hypothetical situation highlighting compliance issues that affect their business or compliance teams. Following robust discussions, each table will publicly share interesting points that arose, including best practices for handling their pressing issues. Receive a post-conference comprehensive report of the roundtable discussion findings.