This week in the compliance world we saw a different type of opening or perhaps the beginning of the end, depending on your perspective, involving Avon. The news this week was not specifically focused on its ongoing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) travails but the takeover bid by a much smaller rival, Coty, Inc. As reported in the April 3, edition of both the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), “Scarred Avon is Takeover Target”, and the New York Times (NYT), “Avon Rebuffs Coty, but Its Weakness Shows”, the German-based cosmetics concern, which is “less than half Avon’s size”, publicly announced a $10 billion takeover bid for Avon.