La compliance – défis et opportunités: comment construire et mettre en œuvre un programme efficace de compliance

Compliance 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 major multinationals. 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, is with Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP law firm in their Paris and Istanbul offices, and practices compliance and arbitration. He is an expert in all aspects of compliance for having had Compliance Departments reporting to him during his 24-year tenure in senior legal positions in General Electric Co. (GE), including GE Capital its highly regulated financial services business, GE Healthcare, GE Oil & Gas, and GE France. 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 highly interactive training, he will share best practices and examples with participants on how to build an effective compliance programme and how to “operationalize” it to make it truly effective.