International Trade & Global Compliance Issues

This final session of the curriculum, presented by Pepper Hamilton Partner Jim Rosener, along with Of Counsel Simeon Gold, includes a detailed examination of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other global compliance issues that have an impact on cross border deal making.

Learning Objectives:

I.  Summarize a brief history/origins of the FCPA, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the UK Bribery Act, and other international anti-corruption conventions.

II. Drill down on the global compliance issues that impact on cross border deal making:

• Provide an overview of the FCPA
• Discuss some of the major cases successfully prosecuted under the FCPA
• Offer a brief comparison of some of the key provisions of the FCPA, the UK Bribery Act and the OECD Convention
• Examine “successor liability” under the FCPA
• Express methodologies for gaining FCPA compliance, including “best practice” due diligence, legal protections, maintaining a successful FCPA compliance program, and post-acquisition integration issues
• Describe the high cost of FCPA compliance in cross border deal making