Cross-Border Investigations: Trends and Predictions for 2022
Cooperation between regulators and law enforcement authorities across borders has become increasingly common in recent years. This trend has resulted in more complex and large-scale cross-border investigations with significant financial and collateral consequences for companies across many jurisdictions. Companies caught in the cross-hairs of such investigations must navigate foreign data protection and data privacy laws, language and cultural barriers in conducting interviews, and potentially conflicting cooperation obligations with regulators. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up how cross-border internal and government investigations are conducted, from how evidence is collected, to how interviews are taken, to how regulators cooperate.
Listen as a panel of distinguished practitioners with diverse backgrounds as in-house counsel, outside defense counsel, and forensic accounting organized by The Knowledge Group provide a comprehensive discussion of the recent developments and critical issues surrounding cross-border investigations, including predictions for 2022. Speakers will also offer practical tips and strategies to respond to this ever-changing multi-jurisdictional regulatory landscape.
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Director Control Risks
Kanupriya is a Director and co-leads our compliance and investigations practice in the Middle East and North Africa from our Dubai office. She is a forensic accountant, investigator and a trained first responder. Kanupriya brings extensive experience of working with large companies and global law firms on both proactive and reactive problem-solving assignments. She has investigated numerous financial and non-financial cases related to corruption, financial statement fraud, revenue-sharing and quantification of costs in the Middle East and South Asia regions. She has led proactive fraud risk assessments and trained C-suite client representatives on fraud and corruption.
Member Miller & Chevalier
Lauren Briggerman represents corporations and executives in government and internal investigations and related litigation. She has particular expertise in cross-border investigations, including in the areas of criminal antitrust, anti-corruption and the FCPA, and money laundering. Over the past decade, she has been involved in a number of complex global cartel investigations which require an understanding of the interplay between various legal regimes, applicable data privacy and protection laws, and complex, and often conflicting privilege rules. She has a successful track record handling investigations in the auto parts, air cargo, freight forwarding, and pharmaceutical industries. In the anti-corruption and money laundering space, Lauren has led investigations in both Asia and Latin America, involving a diverse range of industries and risk factors. Lauren is the co-executive editor of the firm’s Executives at Risk newsletter, which reports on the most noteworthy cases and investigations implicating corporate executives. She founded the Women’s Antitrust Forum, a Washington, DC-based organization that brings together women antitrust practitioners for professional development purposes. She is also Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Antitrust Law Section’s Compliance & Ethics Committee and an active member of the ABA’s Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee and the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.
Mexican Counsel Blank Rome LLP
Cecilia Ibarra-van Oostenrijk focuses her practice on international transactions, disputes and investigations, with an emphasis on energy industry matters. Cecilia has acquired extensive international disputes and investigations experience while previously working with an international law firm on matters including cross-border disputes, commercial and investor-treaty arbitrations, and internal and government investigations that involved operations in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Russia, the Middle East, and Asia. Due to her longstanding international practice in the Latin America region, Cecilia has an extensive network of relationships in the legal and business industries throughout the region.
