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FRA's Toby Duthie and Trevor Wiles speaking at this year's Annual London White Collar Crime Institute

October 14, 2019

FRA are delighted to be sponsoring this year's 8th Annual London White Collar Crime Institute which aims to bring topflight legal practitioners from across the globe to tackle topics such as, international money laundering and sanctions, cross-border evidentiary concerns, and international internal investigations, fraud and bribery cases.

FRA Founding Partner, Toby Duthie, will be joining the panel Cyber Crisis Management: Ready, Set? Prepare to Respond and Recover and FRA Partner, Trevor Wiles will be moderating the white collar crime hypothetical investigation exercise.

Program highlights include Cyber Crisis Management: Ready, Set? Prepare to Respond and Recover, An Examination of White Collar Sentencing Regimes in the EU and the US, Money Laundering, and, Sanctions Enforcement.

View the full agenda here.

Monday 14 October, 2019

Cyber Crisis Management: Ready, Set? Prepare to Respond and Recover

Can your organization survive a disruptive cyber event? While organizations cannot anticipate or prevent every cyberattack, they must be prepared to respond to a significant cyberattack at a moment's notice. This panel will discuss incident response readiness and how organizations should prepare to weather the storm of a cyberattack, including effectively managing the many legal and business work flows that arise in the wake of a significant cyberattack. The panel will focus in particular on internal forensic and root cause investigations, regulatory investigations, and cooperation with law enforcement.

Moderator: Phyllis Sumner, Partner, Chief Privacy Officer, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA

Panelists:

  • Toby Duthie, Forensic Risk Alliance - London, UK
  • Meredith Griffanti, Managing Director, Strategic Communications, FTI Consulting, Washington, DC
  • Jamie Saunders, Strategic Cyber Consultant, Marsh Risk Consulting, London
  • Mark Whitehead, Director, Customer Breach Support, Deloitte, UK

Tuesday 15 October, 2019

White Collar Crime Hypothetical Exercise Part 1 (Investigations)

In this hypothetical the Government of Country X and the World Bank have signed a loan agreement to support Country X's Road Sector Project. A contract worth $100 million was subsequently awarded to a company owned by a US citizen. Allegations of bid rigging, inflated invoices, kickbacks and money laundering using cryptocurrencies are received. Investigations are commenced by the World Bank, the DOJ and FINCEN. Our esteemed panellists from white collar law / forensic practices and the World Bank, together with audience participation, will discuss the investigations and the implications for the various parties involved.

Moderator: Trevor Wiles, Partner, Forensics Risk Alliance - London, UK

Panelists:

  • Nicholas C. Harbist, Partner, Blank Rome, LLP - Princeton, NJ
  • Zoe Newman, Managing Director, Financial Investigations Business Intelligence & Investigations, Duff & Phelps, London, UK
  • Mara V.J. Senn, Senior Investigator and Senior Litigation Specialist, Integrity Vice Presidency, World Bank, Washington, DC
  • Joe Dally Whitley, Chair, Government Enforcement & Investigations Practice Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA

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