WEBCAST: Dealing with Cross-Border Investigations

Date

Feb 18, 2010

Participants

Marcus A. Asner, Drew A. Harker and Claudius O. Sokenu

Against the backdrop of the recent banking and financial markets crisis, enforcement agencies around the world are increasingly collaborating to investigate allegations of accounting and financial fraud, insider trading, Ponzi schemes, bribery of foreign government officials, other securities law violations, tax evasion, money laundering, and antitrust violations. Accordingly, multinational and domestic companies with substantial overseas footprints are conducting more multijurisdictional and cross-border internal investigations in an effort to respond to the enforcement agencies' investigations.

These multijurisdictional and cross-border investigations tend to multiply the magnitude of complex investigatory issues that a company faces in government investigations. This webcast explores methods of handling these investigations that take into account jurisprudence and cultural idiosyncrasies in which companies may be held accountable for their actions.