Workshop B – An Updated Roadmap on Making High Stakes, Time Sensitive Decisions, from Internal Investigations, to Voluntary Disclosures, Whistleblowers and Consent Agreements
Sarah York
Senior Counsel, International Trade Compliance
GE Aerospace
Thaddeus McBride
Partner
Bass Berry & Sims PLC
During this “closed door,” smaller-group session, speakers and participants will discuss the finer points of managing a compliance program under pressure, including how to try to get in front of potential enforcement actions, how to conduct a comprehensive, but confidential, internal investigation, how to write a persuasive voluntary disclosure-and more. At the end of this workshop, you will walk away with practical insights that will serve as an invaluable resource for your work after the conference.
- Preventative Maintenance and Avoiding Violations: Overlooked critical keys to internal controls transparency to avoid a self-disclosure
- Appropriate resourcing and export control program foundations
- Management of export-controlled information
- Open reporting and motivating employee engagement
- Whistleblower Considerations: Trends and specific challenges
- Step-by- action plans for handling the complaint, interviews and litigation risk
- How to mitigate risk around whistleblowers that continue to bring False Claims Act actions
- Asia Pacific-related whistleblower report trends: Meeting confidentiality obligations and local law requirements
- Retaliation: Continuing to monitor the whistleblower relationship and to keeping records of management decisions
- Lifecyle of a Voluntary Disclosure: Conducting investigations and best practices
- Who needs to know and when?
- Maintaining confidentiality while conducting comprehensive investigations
- Writing a regulator friendly disclosure
- Remedial measures, root cause determinations, and creating effective and achievable corrective actions
- Enforcement Action Preparation: Consent Agreements and heightened enforcement trend considerations:
- Building the right internal negotiation team
- Mitigation considerations- tolling, personnel changes, and investment opportunities
- Key risk areas as identified by recent enforcement actions