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The Man From FCPA

The Man From FCPA is a blog about enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-bribery statutes around the world, written primarily by Compliance Week columnist Tom Fox plus other occasional contributors. Fox is now an independent consultant assisting companies with FCPA and compliance issues, after many years as in-house counsel and outside counsel on anti-bribery and corruption issues. Fox also hosts a weekly podcast, “The FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report,” and writes an in-depth monthly column for Compliance Week as well.
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Customers and corruption risks
Tom Fox | March 14, 2016
What is the cost of corruption? How much due diligence must you perform with those entities that are your customers? Does doing business with companies that have a propensity for corruption put your company at risk? In light of the scandals at Petrobras and Houston-based ENSCO, companies might want to consider if they have the right answers.
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Looking to buy? Be sure and complete your due diligence
Tom Fox | August 13, 2017
Tom Fox explores a recent report on wealthy American businessmen attempting to purchase London soccer clubs for a weekend outing and their due diligence duties.
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The three levels of due diligence
Tom Fox | January 23, 2018
How to recognize and utilize each level of due diligence to fight corruption.
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Why board oversight matters, in investing and compliance
Tom Fox | January 29, 2018
The case of Outcome Health is a clear lesson for the anti-corruption compliance practitioner: Levels of oversight not only provide a backup to make sure that no mistake should slip through, but also the rigor of financial oversight.
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Compliance lessons from the HP-Autonomy fiasco
Tom Fox | March 3, 2018
The Man From FCPA discusses the reasons behind one of the greatest corporate disasters in the past few years: the acquisition of Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard.
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What is due diligence?
Tom Fox | June 18, 2018
Due diligence is key to getting your third-party risk management program off the ground.
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Phase 2 in third-party risk management: the questionnaire
Tom Fox | June 18, 2018
An essential piece of third-party risk management is “the questionnaire,” which companies should garner on behalf of all their third-party relationships at the start of the union in order to move forward with all the anwers.
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The ‘how’ question in due diligence
Tom Fox | July 19, 2018
A clear lesson to be learned from the Theranos scandal is when conducting merger due diligence, make sure to determine how a new partner conducts itself and its business.
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Evaluation of third parties
Tom Fox | July 19, 2018
Compliance practitioners at GE Oil & Gas discuss the process by which GE reviews the risks around each of its third parties.
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