Lynch’s Visit to Italy Highlights International Cooperation and Enforcement

On October 20, 2016, U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Italian Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando hosted a meeting about international cooperation in the fight against organized crime and corruption. The meeting focused on the recent achievements and future developments of the collaboration between the U.S. and the Italian governments in the judicial field. In a guest article, Italian lawyers Roberto Cursano and Riccardo Ovidi, counsel and associate at Studio Professionale Associato at Baker & McKenzie discuss the key takeaways from the meeting, arguing that the meeting’s focus on collaboration confirms that companies should take into account the transnational dimension of anti-corruption enforcement when formulating their compliance programs. See “The Italian Organismo di Vigilanza, A Model for an Effective Compliance Committee” (Jun.15, 2016).

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