With the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the rise, companies and their leadership are focusing on their immediate survival. Compliance and risk topics seem to be put aside and officers might find it difficult to convey them to management boards due to their focus on financial resilience. On the other hand, as governments have been in urgent need of medical and other equipment, we witness ever increasing public procurements, many of them not following standard procedures or applying due checks. Compliance pays off significantly in the long-term, similarly with losses if a failure occurs - it is expensive, damaging and disruptive.
How do you protect your business and eliminate unnecessary risks in the era of Covid-19? What should you do in order to prevent various entities from using these times as an opportunity to take advantage? In addition, what is the actual current experience from the in-house point of view? Register for our webinar and discuss with the experts.
Michaela Ahlberg is a lawyer with over thirty years of experience working with global business and ethics & compliance, with a proven capability of engaging those around her. She is an advocate for empowering leadership, strengthening a culture of ethical business. She has been responsible for ethics & compliance programmes at several multinational companies such as Nokia, Volvo Cars, Telia Company and Getinge.
Andrei Gusev
Andrei Gusev is the Managing Partner of Borenius Russia.
Andrei has many years of experience in the following fields:
Strategic advice to business owners
Resolving business conflicts
Asset tracing & recovery
Crisis management and crisis negotiations
Corporate investigations
Handling cases relating to “white-collar” crimes
Conducting and settling disputes using ADR procedures, including mediation
International tax structuring and planning
For many clients Andrei has for many years been a trusted adviser on the widest range of issues, including in interacting with lawyers from different countries.
Throughout his many years of practice, Andrei has made, and maintains, business contacts with hundreds of qualified lawyers from dozens of countries.
In Russia, Andrei has created one of the most experienced and well-known teams of lawyers who supply services across all key business sectors.
Piotr Janecki
Manager, trainer and implementer- responsible for compliance risk management systems and compliance rules in international companies based on European legal and business processes. Currently Head of Compliance and Data Protection Poland and Senior Compliance Advisor for Eastern Europe, responsible for the LCOs work coordination and BSH Home Appliances companies in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. In 2019 he was honored as the Compliance Officer of the year 2019 –Compliance Awards 2019. Since 2015 member of the programme board of Compliance magazine. Previously, he cultivated and managed a team implementing and streamlining Shared Services processes, worked as a change management specialist and as a management incident specialist and project specialist in the corporate projects led by BSH Home Appliances Group in Munich. He had taken part in merger Projects led in central Europe and huge investments ( both Production and SSC sites) As a result - he organized both implementation and matching compliance Projects to ensure required compliance level both in merged and newly established units/sites.
He is also a valued trainer for Approved Compliance Officer Courses ( more than 350 Compliance officers were trained) and a trainer with years of experience at commercial companies (over 250 trainings for over 3400 participants in commercial, production, and supply chain area – standardized and dedicated for particular group/areas/functions). A long-time lecturer of post-graduate studies at the SWPS Humanities University and the University of Lódz. PhD Candidate, an author of publications on compliance and a legal comparatist, he is a huge fan of the interdisciplinary approach both for compliance standards its implementation and audits (House of effective Compliance approach).
His motto is: create and drive secure and efficient processes, or poor-quality processes will drive you.
Tomasz Konopka
I joined SK&S in 2002 and I am the head of the White Collar Crime, Investigations & Compliance practice, which I created in 2008. I advise on fraud, corruption, tax evasion, money laundering, cybercrime, creative accounting, false transactions and bankruptcy cases. I coordinate cross-border internal investigations for international clients in sectors such as heavy industry, chemicals, IT and banking. I have defended clients in numerous high-profile white-collar and tax fraud cases, including acting for board members, managers and representatives of local government units.
Jitka Logesová
Jitka Logesová is an experienced corporate partner who has worked extensively on cross-border transactions and projects for over 20 years. Her clients include major private equity firms and corporations in transactions involving assets and target companies in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary as well as the rest of the CEE region. Prior to joining Wolf Theiss, Jitka served as a co-head of the regional CEE private equity team at another international law firm. In addition to her transactional practice, Jitka focuses on corporate compliance and corporate governance projects for companies across CEE/SEE. She frequently lectures on corporate compliance related topics and is ranked as one of the leading lawyers in her field in Central Europe. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and has also published extensively on this topic.