In This Issue -

Welcome to the final issue of International News for 2014. As regulatory oversight of companies—from Sarbanes Oxley and the Dodd-Frank Act to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act—becomes increasingly intrusive and complex, companies must continue to prioritise compliance. In this issue, therefore, we focus on some of the compliance challenges business face.

We start our Focus section by examining how one, uniform compliance programme can meet the global challenges faced by multinational companies.

It is also, of course, always best to prepare for the worst. The best approach to dealing with the complexities that can arise during an internal investigation is to have a well thought out internal investigation plan in place before a crisis hits. We outline how such a plan might look.