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Conference Day One
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| Wednesday, 15 September 2010 |
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| 08:30 |
Registration and refreshments |
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| 09:00 |
Chairman’s opening remarks
Richard Dean, Partner, BAKER & MCKENZIE |
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| 09:15 |
KEYNOTE: Explaining the current focus of the DoJ and SEC |
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- Will targeting of individuals improve accountability or encourage the use of scapegoats?
- Understanding individual accountability in context of the McNulty Memorandum
- Going undercover and gaining access to data that might indicate corrupt individuals
- How will the disparities in sentencing be reduced and will there be new sentencing guidelines?
Nathaniel Edmonds, Assistant Chief of the Fraud Section, Criminal Division, US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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| 10:00 |
How much will the new UK Anti-Bribery Laws really impact businesses in South & SE Asia? |
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- Ignorance is not an excuse – what level of effort are businesses expected to make?
- Which industries will be most impacted by the increased jurisdiction of the SFO?
- What the new laws are intended to achieve
- How have the laws impacted businesses so far?
Darren Murphy, Partner, ALLENS ARTHUR ROBINSON
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| 10:45 |
Morning coffee |
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| 11:15 |
What are the governments doing? South & SE Asian initiatives |
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- How do governments analyse corruption mechanisms and patterns?
- Detailing some of the short and long term aims of anti-corruption agencies
- Dealing with public to private and private to private corruption
- Strategies being used to reduce corruption in government departments
- What are the government attitudes towards flexibility when a prosecution looks likely?
- Handling the regulator when they come knocking
Maurice Burke, Joint-head of Dispute Resolution, South East Asia, HERBERT SMITH
Martin Tolar, Chief Executive Officer, AUSTRALASIAN COMPLIANCE INSTITUTE
Badrul Shah Norman, Deputy Commissioner/ Senior Deputy Director of Investigation, MALAYSIA ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION
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| 12:15 |
Surviving and thriving in corrupt markets |
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- Countries that show up on the international CPI and why
- Calculating the scores – what are the factors considered?
- Which industries are most severely affected by corruption in South & SE Asia?
- What are the day to day business issues that are affected by corruption?
- Dealing with the corruption that G8 economies export to the region
Stephen Wilford, Director, Corporate Investigations, South-East Asia, CONTROL RISKS
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| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Series of Country-Specific Panel Discussions
A chance to look at the profile and mechanisms for corruption in the private and public sector in India, Indonesia and Vietnam. We will investigate specific mechanisms through which bribes have been requested and given as well as government anti-corruption strategies. There will be a special focus on a case study relevant to each country.
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| 14:00 |
Panel discussion: India and Satyam
Natesan Sukumar, Chief Compliance Officer, MSD PHARMACEUTICALS
Gaurav Jabulee, Senior Counsel – Asia, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INDIA |
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| 14:45 |
Panel discussion: Indonesia and Innospec
Paku Utama, Lecturer, AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY and Consultant, UNODC
Evan Rogers, Regional Counsel – Asia Pacific, BAKER HUGHES |
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| 15:30 |
Afternoon tea |
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| 16:00 |
Panel discussion: Vietnam and Nexus
Thanh Ha Trang, Partner, BAKER & MCKENZIE
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| 16:45 |
Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day one |
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