A Price Worth Paying?: Proactive Risk Management for Corporate Counsel

If you are an attorney interested in attending this program, please click the link below to email your name, title, company, contact information, and bar numbers for jurisdictions in which you are requesting CLE credit to DechertCLE@dechert.com. Once we receive this information, we will confirm your registration status. This session will be run via Webex. Please see here for their minimum system requirements.

Session:
February 8th, 2022 – 11:00am – 12:30pm ET

It has now become routine to see reports of corporate activities morphing into full-blown, headline-grabbing crises. These events spawn a host of government and regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, and shareholder litigation. Using a proprietary film produced by Dechert LLP – “A Price Worth Paying?” – we will set the stage by going inside a fictional company, Maartel International, and dissecting how its corporate leaders created and attempted to address high-risk issues in the areas of setting executive compensation, conducting risk assessment and due diligence in M&A, and responding to serious whistleblower allegations. The film, packed with issues and designed to provoke lively debate, facilitates an interactive dialogue aimed at spotting hot topics and discussing how these fictional corporate leaders failed to prevent and appropriately address these complex problems. 

Following the presentation of “A Price Worth Paying?,” we will turn to two of the Firm’s leaders and distinguished white collar practitioners for a discussion of how the crisis at Maartel could play out in the real world of high-stakes civil, criminal and regulatory litigation. Our lawyer team will discuss how to effectively handle and defend these matters and, along the way, provide valuable insights based on decades of experience handling these types of high-stakes matters.  As part of the discussion, our practitioners plan to address a wide array of topics, including:

• DOJ investigations and criminal enforcement
• SEC investigations and enforcement
• Managing parallel civil and criminal matters
• Managing cross-border investigations
• Ethical considerations when conducting internal investigations and handling whistleblower claims
• Crisis management and PR strategies
• Key topics in the FCPA or other anti-corruption analogues
• Securities class action litigation
• Derivative litigation against Ds & Os

Applications for CLE credit are pending in NC and PA.