Corporate Criminal Liability in Today’s Enforcement Environment: What Corporate Management Should Know

This GRC training will help attendees understand the concept of corporate criminal liability and why it matters. Learn best practices for avoiding or mitigating it.

Why Should you Attend:

For corporate management, it is increasingly important to understand the legal basis for, and the possible consequences of, corporate criminal liability. For corporate leaders in the financial or operational fields, the pendency or threat of a criminal investigation or prosecution raises unique operational, supervisory, financial and compliance issues.

This webinar will provide perspectives on these matters from the vantage point of both the federal government and private companies. It will also suggest ways in which the risk of corporate criminal liability can be minimized on the front end prior to an incident ever occurring and managed effectively on the back end should an indent occur. Attendees of this program will be positioned to understand what corporate criminal liability is, why it matters, when it might apply, and how to avoid or mitigate it. In this manner, they can help their corporate employers or clients deal responsibly with this ever-growing risk posed to businesses by the current federal law enforcement environment.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Rationale behind corporate criminal liability
• Nature of the growing threat of corporate criminal liability
• The legal requirements for the imposition of federal corporate criminal liability
• The legal penalties and other consequences of corporate criminal liability
• Strategies for avoiding corporate criminal liability in the first place
• Strategies for handling an incident that could lead to corporate criminal liability
• Strategies for otherwise minimizing the extent of corporate criminal liability if it cannot be avoided altogether

Who Will Benefit:

• Corporate financial management personnel
• Corporate operations management personnel
• Corporate compliance personnel

Instructor Profile:

Eli J. Richardson, is a Member of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, based in the firm’s Nashville office and practicing in its Compliance and Government Investigations practice group. Mr. Richardson concentrates on whitecollar criminal and quasi-criminal matters. His practice encompasses conducting internal investigations, advising on compliance matters, and defending corporate and individual clients under investigation by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, various Offices of Inspector General, and other federal and state enforcement agencies.