Money Laundering / Financial Crime
Financial crime legislation increasingly requires businesses to demonstrate that they have conducted due diligence adequate to identify potential risks of bribery, fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, sanctions violations, and other financial crimes.
It is therefore vital that businesses considering an acquisition, joint venture, engagement of an agent, or entrance into an emerging market, properly consider these risks to avoid entering into commercially damaging arrangements with potentially serious collateral consequences.
We frequently advise companies on the risks of entering into mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, agency agreements, counter-party contracts, and general regulatory and legal compliance matters. This work often requires a combination of thorough due diligence on counter-parties, which frequently demands on the ground intelligence in some of the world’s most challenging jurisdictions, as well as a thorough assessment of the applicable regulatory and legal risks.
Such is our calibre in this area that Williams & Belliard has advised Governments upon their State investigations and prosecutions.