Your International Compliance Playbook

Your International Compliance Playbook

January 2015, Corporate Counsel

Covington's Lanny Breuer and Peter Lichtenbaum have authored this article on corporate compliance:

The phone rings, and the CEO tells you she’s planning an acquisition of a target that has operations in Europe and Asia. She’s focused on the potential to develop technology 24-7 and get closer to the global customers. Of course, your job is to get regulatory approval and maintain compliance once it happens. As you start to consider the requirements of antitrust reviews, foreign investment restrictions, trade controls and data protection, some involving non-U.S. law, you suddenly find yourself paralyzed by one thought. How are you supposed to manage them all?