Practice area: Compliance
Advice on the process of implementing a Corporate Compliance system.
Compliance
JANÉ ADVOCATS supports its clients in order to ensure the optimal management of legal risks in their organisations, offering advice that measures up to their needs. The high degree of specialisation of our professionals in this field enables us to advise our clients from the process of implementing a Corporate Compliance system through to the handling of incidents, representing their interests before the courts.
The professionals at our law firm have specialised in implementing Risk & Compliance systems, the purpose of which is to determine the requirements and obligations to which organisations are subject.
One of the functions of implementing these programmes is to avoid legal liability on the part of the organisation, its management or governing bodies and its executives, as well as to avoid the negative economic and reputational impact that may result from regulatory breaches.
Our services in this practice area are aimed at regulatory compliance in:
· Data protection.
· Information security.
· Tax and financial matters.
· Technology.
· Employment law.
· Tax.
· Administrative law.
· Intellectual property.
The legislative changes to the Criminal Code go a considerable way towards defining the concept of corporate criminal liability. In turn, they have created the need to extend regulatory compliance to the criminal sphere in order to detect and prevent the commission of offences within organisations.
The services that JANÉ ADVOCATS can offer in this practice area include, among others:
· Design and implementation of compliance programmes.
· Ongoing advice on the execution of compliance programmes.
· Compliance training for executives and employees.
· Review and updating of compliance programmes.
· Defence of persons under investigation in criminal proceedings relating to the various areas of compliance.
· Audits for organisations that have compliance programmes or systems in place.
· Compliance officer
· Data Protection Officer