Coffee Break Compliance Broadcast Series | Episode Eleven: Internal Investigations: Where Employment, Regulatory and Criminal Laws Collide

Dechert invites compliance professionals and in-house counsel to join us for a short break, over a coffee or lunch, to consider the emerging compliance trends in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As businesses globally are grappling with the complexities of a changing work environment and varying country safety requirements, our lawyers from around the world reflect on how these issues require companies to renew focus on compliance. This broadcast series will provide insight on several issues, such as actively considering Diversity and Inclusion within an effective compliance program, complying with cross-border tax and data transfer regulations, and handling internal and government investigations, including those relating to whistleblowers, tax evasion and employment issues.

For more information and guidance, please get in touch with one of the speakers on this broadcast or the Dechert lawyers with whom you work most closely. 

Episode 11: Internal Investigations: Where Employment, Regulatory and Criminal Laws Collide

The eleventh episode of Coffee Break Compliance was recorded in conjunction with Dechert's Employment Elevenses Broadcast Series. Issues such as ensuring employee cooperation, maintaining legal privilege, fulfilling privacy obligations, and ensuring the demonstrating the fair treatment of employees during and at the conclusion of an investigation can all cause challenging legal problems, which may require simultaneous advice from both employment lawyers and white collar crime specialists. This episode of Coffee Break Compliance provides an overview of the key considerations and the various nexus points between these different areas of law for in-house practitioners to consider when managing an internal investigation.