Your company has just made its largest acquisition ever and your Chief Executive Officer (CEO) says that he wants you to have a compliance post-acquisition integration plan on his desk in one week. Where do you begin? Of course, you think about the 2012 FCPA Guidance but remember that it did not have the time lines established in the recent enforcement actions involving Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Pfizer and Data Systems & Solutions LLC. While there are time frames listed in these Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) are a guide of See more +
Your company has just made its largest acquisition ever and your Chief Executive Officer (CEO) says that he wants you to have a compliance post-acquisition integration plan on his desk in one week. Where do you begin? Of course, you think about the 2012 FCPA Guidance but remember that it did not have the time lines established in the recent enforcement actions involving Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Pfizer and Data Systems & Solutions LLC. While there are time frames listed in these Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) are a guide of timeframes; many compliance professionals struggle with is how to perform these post-acquisition compliance integrations. See less -