Compliance – Challenges and Opportunities: How to Build and Implement an Effective Compliance Programme

The UIA is proud to present this Course which is part of the UIA 2014 Training Courses Programme. The objective of our Training Courses is to provide comprehensive tools in specific and/or specialist areas of the law or in specific projects, by offering advanced-level “master classes” held by outstanding expert trainers.

The UIA aims to provide excellence at reasonable cost, given its non-profit nature and institutional role.

The course is held over two days, with 1 trainer.

The sessions will be highly interactive.

Minimum number of participants: 20

Maximum number of participants: 32

Objectives  

Compliance, a growing area, is one of the most essential features of a company’s structure and operations, as has been highlighted by recent public scandals affecting the reputation of companies. Reputation is the most important asset of a company, and compliance helps in safeguarding it. The objective of this Training Course is to introduce participants to compliance, its fundamentals, the challenges to compliance, the benefits of a thorough compliance programme, its building blocks, their implementation into a company’s operations, the review and reporting mechanisms, and how to conduct internal investigations if an issue occurs.

Jean-Claude Najar, the trainer, now in private practice with the Curtis, Mallet-Prevost law firm, is an expert in all aspects of compliance for having had Compliance Departments reporting to him during his 24-year tenure a general counsel of various GE businesses, including its highly regulated financial services business. He has worked on numerous compliance matters, and has a wealth of experience in devising global compliance programmes, in cross-business compliance, and in internal investigations. Mr. Najar teaches compliance at Sciences Po and in the healthcare compliance programs of INSEAD, and of Seton Hall Law School/Sciences Po. He is a member of the ETHIC Intelligence anti-corruption Certification Committee and serves on the OECD’s task force devising a MENA anti-corruption guide.

In this interactive training, he will share best practices with participants on how to build an effective compliance programme and how to “operationalize” it to make it truly effective.