Compliance & Investigations
Considering especially the potential cross-border effects of the legislation such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (USA) and the Bribery Act (UK), global companies may face criminal/administrative penalties and civil lawsuits - both in Turkey and in the parent company’s region- as well as loss of corporate reputation due to compliance issues. In that respect the implementation of an effective corporate compliance program is the company’s first line defense against criminal and regulatory misconduct in order tolimit the exposure of the company to the penalties.
It is not always easy to eliminate the involvement of the employees in illegal practices such as bribery, corruption, fraud, money laundering especially in the case of multinational companies having thousands of employees within their body. We get involve here by competently supporting our clients by developing compliance and best practice programs and by conducting internal investigations.
As well, it is crucial to ensure that each employee is properly informed about the compliance knowledge and also reporting and disclosure requirements related to compliance issues. In that sense, we also provide trainings for the management and the employees of the client companies in order to raise awareness on the critical compliance issues.
Our Compliance practice focuses on the below matters:
- Anti-bribery and anti-corruption regulatory defense
- Best practice advices
- Civil damage lawsuits
- Compliance investigations/audits and preparing due diligence (fact finding) reports
- Compliance trainings and implementing compliance programs
- Corporate governance
- Ethic issues
- Personal data privacy and protection
- Trade compliance and sector-specific compliance issues