Amplified Anti-Corruption Risks During COVID-19: Navigating Compliance and Investigation Challenges, Addressing Misconduct

This CLE course will guide counsel on anti-corruption investigations and compliance in the new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) environment. The panel will discuss the hurdles that COVID-19 presents and offer workarounds and best practices for conducting investigations and remaining compliant.

Travel restrictions, office closures, and internal process changes implemented by companies during this COVID-19 pandemic pose unique challenges for addressing corporate misconduct.

In these uncertain times, how should compliance and investigations efforts adapt? To detect and manage misconduct, compliance resources and priorities must reflect changing external factors such as supply chain disruptions and internal factors such as evolving business pressures and internal dynamics from remote or partially operating work forces. Does your compliance contingency plan reflect likely and worst-case scenarios so that compliance efforts remain effective and issues can be addressed?

Conducting investigations during the current crisis means coming up with solutions in an environment where some accepted best-practice principles are temporarily unworkable but many of the challenges are magnified. And while regulators face their own challenges, it is certain that they will remain interested in pursuing instances of corporate misconduct. We will discuss considerations and associated risks that companies should keep in mind, including how to leverage technology and other workarounds in order to conduct effective investigations throughout your organization.

Listen as our authoritative panel of compliance and investigations attorneys examines the impact of COVID-19 on anti-corruption compliance and investigations. The panel will also offer tips on workarounds and best practices.