Developing and Facilitating Effective Compliance Risk Assessments

Why Should You Attend:

Businesses face ever increasing compliance requirements from government regulatory agencies as well as public and peer pressure to meet legal and ethical requirements. With the multiplicity of these regulatory, legal and ethical challenges, companies are hard pressed to navigate their way without incurring significant liabilities. A properly conducted risk assessment can reveal many of these challenges and provide recommendations for minimizing exposure. A risk assessment can help managers to better understand and organize the numerous risks and develop a risk management plan that can be implemented to reduce exposure and potential harms.

This webinar will examine many of the common risk exposures that companies face, outline various approaches for identifying risks and assessing likelihood for occurrence as well as provide some options on how a company can best implement recommendations into action.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this webinar, attendees will learn:

• How to perform an enterprise-wide compliance risk assessment to evaluate compliance risks, rate them, and prioritize them accordingly.
• How to identify and develop controls to mitigate the risks within the business.
• Best practices to regulate and conduct risk assessment through well-designed and executed controls.
• How a compliance risk assessment helps to measure risk.
• How regular monitoring and auditing of risks is important to effective implementation of risk management and mitigation.
• Some of the common risks facing businesses in the regulatory, legal and ethical environment.
• Various approaches available for assessing risk in a company’s business portfolio.
• Who should be involved in conducting and developing a risk assessment?

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Importance of risk management
• Common areas of risk facing many companies
• Types of risk assessments
• Who should be involved in risk assessment
• Considering the risk assessment report
• Turning recommendations into action

Who Will Benefit:

• Business Managers
• Risk Management Professionals
• Compliance Professionals
• Corporate Counsel
• Regulatory Compliance Associates and Managers

Instructor Profile:

Kenneth Barden, is an attorney with over 33 years of experience in the practice of law in the United States. He has over thirty years of experience in public administration representing various governments and public entities. For most of the past sixteen years, his work has concentrated on issues concerning international and economic development. His practice focuses on business and corporate law, corporate governance, contract issues, construction/ infrastructure as well as matters related to public finance, administrative reform and economic development.

Mr. Barden is a world class expert in international development projects, related to business and economic development issues having advised to World Bank, IFC, ADB and various developing countries’ governments. He was a legal advisor to the United Nations Development Program International Law Resource Unit as part of a review of Vietnam’s draft foreign investment laws. He served as an advisor on a World Bank-funded project to develop the business regulatory environment for East Timor.

Mr. Barden has considerable experience in construction law having served as counsel on a number of large construction projects. He advised on several municipalities in the United States on road construction projects, water and wastewater treatment plants, a baseball stadium, and several building constructions. On contractual issues, Mr. Barden has drafted and advised clients on various issues related to the contracting process, from conception to development of specifications to procurement, as well as joint venture contracts, shareholder agreements, sale and purchase, agency, manufacturing and distribution contracts.

Mr. Barden is also a Certified Financial Crime Specialist and in that capacity has developed a number of risk management programs designed to ensure compliance of financial and non-financial businesses with regulatory, legal and ethical compliance standards.

Topic Background:

Businesses face increasing regulation from government agencies. Additionally, potential legal and ethical liabilities pose threats to a company’s reputation and “bottom line”. Record penalties have been levied against companies that have been found in violation of legal requirements, even where such violation was unintentional or inadvertent. In order to address these threats it is crucial that a business assess its risk profile, determine its appetite for risk, and develop strategies to adequately prepare for such risks and implement mitigation measures to reduce any adverse impact.

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