Gil Soffer, Chicago office managing partner and Litigation co-chair, will present "Corporate Monitorships: How You Can Avoid Them, and What to Do If You Can't" at 2:00 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, May 19. He will explore topics on corporate monitorships, including:

  • Why and when the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and other regulators require companies to engage a corporate monitor
  • How compliance efforts can reduce the odds that the DOJ will impose a monitorship on a company
  • What the DOJ and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are looking for in corporate compliance
  • How to perform an adequate risk assessment
  • Best practices in managing high-risk third-party relationships
  • The government's compliance expectations concerning mergers and acquisitions
  • How the DOJ views the compliance role of senior and middle management
  • The importance of discipline, and publicizing of discipline, to an effective compliance program
  • The importance of Internal Audit to a well-functioning compliance program
  • How to manage the relationship with a monitor if one is imposed