Compliance efforts nowadays are key for good and ethical business and market development.

Compliance programs are dynamic and must be adapted both to shifting regulatory trends and to each company’s inner change process. Compliance professionals must grasp the national and international rules to which each company is subject, as well as their peculiarities in terms of size, structure, industry and activities.

CMA’s Compliance team can monitor regulatory changes and best market practices and align them to each client’s peculiarities.

The experienced professionals in our team were trained at the best law schools in the country and are ready to support our clients in their multifaceted Compliance challenges involving mainly:

• Developing compliance programs in accordance with Brazilian statutes and with best market practices and aligned to each company’s peculiarities (design of tailor-made reports and of integrity risk matrices, codes of ethics and of conduct and specific policies);
• Supporting the improvement or review of compliance programs, with the implementation of mechanisms to ensure effective compliance with internal policies and procedures;
• Conducting compliance audits;
• Drafting or reviewing the client’s anti-corruption clauses;
• Reviewing contracts to screen for anti-corruption issues and prevent potential liability;
• Organizing and conducting compliance training;
• Conducting and reporting on Integrity Due Diligence (IDD) reviews, flagging any integrity risks found in relation to third parties and to other stakeholders;
• Conducting and reporting on Integrity Due Diligence (IDD) reviews, flagging any integrity risks found in relation to third parties and to other stakeholders;
• Conducting ABC due diligence reviews of the compliance programs of M&A target companies and screening targets for any integrity risks;
• Assess risks and suggest remediation efforts and strategic courses of actions focusing on the client’s specific circumstances;
• Crisis management;
• Supporting clients during search and seizure proceedings and government inspections;
• Conducting corporate investigations;
• Supporting clients during investigations conducted by Brazilian and foreign authorities;
• Reporting to government entities on the findings of corporate investigations;
• Negotiating with government entities leniency agreements and consent decrees.