FCPA Compliance: Gifts, Entertainment and Hospitality
Understanding the Risks, Avoiding Common Pitfalls, and Implementing Compliance Strategies to Meet FCPA Requirements
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Recorded event now available
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to counsel for companies doing business internationally on how government agencies treat gifts and hospitality violations. The panel will offer best practices to help companies, their employees and agents avoid violating the gift and hospitality constraints of the FCPA.
Description
A common challenge facing companies and those subject to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is the handling of gifts and hospitality to and from government representatives. Determining whether a gift is a lawful expression consistent with a country’s culture or one that constitutes bribery is difficult.
U.S. Department of Justice advisory opinions and recent cases are instructive on the types of gift and hospitality practices that pose significant risk and when companies should exercise caution in their activities.
Gifts, travel and entertainment are high risk areas for which companies doing business internationally need to implement safeguards to ensure compliance. Counsel must understand the steps that can be taken to minimize THE RISK OF gift and hospitality violations under the FCPA.
Listen as our authoritative panel of practitioners experienced with FCPA challenges examines the provisions of the law that address gifts and hospitality, discusses DOJ advisory opinions and recent cases, and offers best practices for compliance.
Outline
- Provisions of the FCPA addressing gifts and hospitality
- Advisory opinions and recent cases
- Diageo
- Johnson & Johnson
- Aon Corp.
- Best practices for compliance
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What types of hospitality are permissible under the FCPA?
- When do gifts to foreign officials cross the line from being part of a culture's customs to being interpreted as a bribe?
- What strategies can companies employ to ensure full FCPA compliance in gift giving, travel, entertainment and hospitality?
Faculty
Matteson Ellis, Founder/Principal
Matteson Ellis Law, Washington, D.C.
He has extensive experience in all areas of international anti-corruption compliance and enforcement. With a focus on the Americas, he advises companies and individuals on all areas of FCPA enforcement and compliance. He has performed complex, independent, and on-site internal investigations in over 20 countries throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
John E. Davis, Member
Miller & Chevalier, Washington, D.C.
He focuses on international regulatory compliance and enforcement issues. He advises on corruption issues around the world, including compliance with the FCPA and related laws and international treaties, FCPA-related internal investigations and disclosures to the SEC and DOJ. He works with clients to develop and implement compliance programs, conduct due diligence and audit compliance processes.
Margaret M. Cassidy, Principal
Cassidy Law, Washington, D.C.
She has extensive experience in compliantly interacting with governments and government officials, to include gifts, gratuities, seminars, recruiting and hiring as well as conflicts of interest. Her practice focuses on corporate compliance, internal investigations and white collar criminal defense. A former criminal prosecutor she has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of matters.
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