The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, a publication dedicated to legal issues relevant to corporate lawyers, recently interviewed Alfredo Avila, Assistant General Counsel at Monsanto about how they approach FCPA compliance for acquisitions. Monsanto recently acquired a US-based company with a Turkish subsidiary, and found during the due diligence the sub had made inappropriate payments to Turkish […]
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FCPA">Foreign acquisitions and the FCPA
August 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Category: Governance
Tags: code of conduct, compliance, corruption, FCPA, law
Global ethics and international accounting standards
September 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
The Publish What You Pay campaign is where international politics, financial reporting, and the developing world intersect. The campaign seeks to force companies in extractive industries (such as oil and gas) to make public their payments to governments in the developing world. It began in 1999 with an “exposé of the apparent complicity of the oil […]
Category: Accounting Standards
Tags: bribery, corruption, development, ethics, IASB, IFRS, international, lobby, Oxfam, PWYP, standards
