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Compliance

Due to major investigations by public prosecutors and regulatory authorities in the recent years resulting in severe fines and negative publicity for the respective companies, the term "compliance" is on every company's lips today.
 
On their way to achieving compliance, companies often face the difficulty of identifying compliance-lacks due to an increasing internationalization and a growing density of information. Consistent and proven structures and processes are therefore needed to detect weak points at an early stage.
 
Our service:
 
Based on our know-how of the respective legal requirements and our experience in the implementation of compliance schemes, we help our clients to analyze lacks in compliance and assist them in implementing necessary business process controls and internal controlling and supervisory systems to ensure that all legal requirements are complied with within the company. 
 
When it comes to specifics of a particular industrial sector we can rely on a multitude of specialists with wide-ranging project experience. For our clients, this ensures security and compliance with regulations through transparent and controlled processes that run smoothly and securely.

Our approach:

  • Detailed Risk Assessment: Some areas of your business may be particularly exposed to compliance related risks. We review your current controls and procedures, gather information from across the business, speak to your key persons and deliver a detailed risk assessment.
  • Due Diligence: We advise you on the levels of due diligence you need to conduct on your business partners and market operations, which mainly depends on the risks each market and business partner poses to your business.
  • Policies and Procedures: To meet adequate compliance standards special policies and procedures need to be implemented. We can assist you to tailor procedures to your business.
  • Implementation and Monitoring: A detailed and practical action plan is required for the implementation of necessary business process controls and internal controlling and supervisory systems. Further to that we endow you with a strategy for communicating your commitment and procedures within your company and to your business partners, and for the monitoring of the ongoing adequacy of your procedures across the business.
  • Trainings: The best way to communicate a compliance program’s standards and procedures to employees depends upon the nature of the procedures, the type of organization, and the composition of the work force. Rarely will a single training program suffice for an organization’s entire work force. Rather, a corporation should train different groups of employees in different manners based upon job duties, educational backgrounds, and the impact of the compliance program on them.

We are offering tailor made trainings programs thereby using the method that best communicates the appropriate message to the particular audience.


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