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FCPA Compliance: Third-Party Due Diligence

Minimizing Corruption Risks When Using Foreign Agents, Distributors and Other Intermediaries

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Presenting a live 90-minute webinar with interactive Q&A

James D. Slear, Partner, Thompson Coburn, Washington, D.C.

  • J. Daniel Chapman, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel, Parker Drilling, Houston

Kathryn Cameron Atkinson, Member, Miller Chevalier, Washington, D.C.

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FCPA Compliance: Third Party Due Diligence

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Overview: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Anti-bribery provision Prohibits U.S. companies, issuers, and persons in the United States or agent acting on their behalf from giving (or offering, promising, or authorizing the giving of) anything of value to a foreign government official, political party, or party official with the intent to influence that official in his or her official capacity or to secure an improper business advantage Books and Records/Internal Controls provisions Require issuers (U.S. and foreign companies with securities registered in the U.S. and required to file reports with the SEC) to maintain accurate “books and records” and effective internal controls (including all owned or controlled foreign subsidiaries)

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Whistle Blower Risks

 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection

Act added Section 21F to the Exchange Act providing incentives for whistleblowers

 Providing information about violations of securities laws, including

FCPA.

 Leading to SEC enforcement with penalties > $1 million  Awards range from 10-30%

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Antibribery Violation Elements

 Offer, payment, promise or authorization  Anything of value  To foreign official (directly or indirectly)  Corrupt intent

 “Intent or desire to wrongfully influence the recipient”

 To obtain/retain business or direct business to any person

 “Business purpose test: any “unfair business advantage” (e.g., avoiding

Customs duties, seeking confidential bidding information)

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Anything of Value

Any tangible or intangible benefit

 Cash, cash equivalents (including to related parties)  Travel or entertainment (DOJ example: $10,000 for dinners, drinks, and

entertainment for a government official)

 Guarantees, discounts, free products or services  Offers of employment or other benefits to a family member  Charitable contributions (even to a legitimate charity)

“Appropriate” gifts are permissible

 “Necessarily fact specific”  Hallmarks: given openly and transparently, properly recorded, provided only to

reflect esteem or gratitude, and permitted under local law

 The larger or more extravagant more likely improper purpose.

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Foreign Officials

 Any officer or employee of government department, agency or instrumentality or any

public international organization (e.g., UN, EC, IMF or International Red Cross)

 Any political party or party official, or candidate for political office  Any person acting in the capacity of a foreign official

Broadly construed by the DoJ/SEC

 Any officer or employee (including low-level employees and officials) of government-

  • wned or government-controlled businesses and enterprises (i.e., government

instrumentalities)

 Example: Doctors at government-controlled hospitals  Some courts have developed factors to determine as issue of fact

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Court Factors for Instrumentality

 Extent of state ownership  Degree of state control  State’s characterization of the

entity and employees

 Circumstances of creation  Purpose of entity  Obligations and privileges

under foreign law

 Exclusive or controlling power

vested in the entity to administer its functions

 Level of state financial

support

 Provision of services to the

jurisdiction’s residents

 Whether governmental end

  • r purpose is expressed in the

policies of the foreign government; and

 General perception that the

entity is performing official or governmental functions

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Payments to Third Parties

 FCPA expressly prohibits corrupt payments through third parties

 Specifically, covers payments to “any person, while knowing

that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be

  • ffered, given, or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign
  • fficial”

 DOJ Guidance: “Although [ ] foreign agents may

provide entirely legitimate advice regarding local customs and procedures and may help facilitate business transactions, companies should be aware of the risks involved in engaging third-party agents or intermediaries.”

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Liability for Third Party Payments

How much knowledge?

 “Substantially certain” corrupt payment will be made  Aware of “high probability” corrupt payment will be made  Liable if there is . . . .

“Reckless disregard” “Conscious avoidance” “Deliberate Ignorance”

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Head in the Sand: No Protection

Frederic Bourke’s year in jail and $1 million fine

 Investment in failed plan to privatize petroleum industry in Azerbaijan  Invested in entity had reason to know intended to bribe Azerbaijan officials

 Aware of pervasive corruption in Azerbaijan  Knew reputation of business partner as “Pirate of Prague” known for “shady

dealings”

 Created the American advisory companies to shield himself and other American

investors from potential liability from payments made in violation of FCPA

 “Knowledge may be proven [if] the person suspects the fact, realized

its high probability, but refrained from obtaining the final confirmation because he wanted to be able to deny knowledge”

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Third Parties

 Local agents/sales representatives  Consultants/advisors  Subcontractors  Subsidiaries  Distributors  Freight forwarders  Other intermediaries

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Common Red Flags (DOJ Guidance)

 Excessive commissions to third-party agents or consultants  Unreasonably large discounts to third-party distributors  “Consulting agreements” with vaguely described services  Third-party consultant is in a different line of business than that

for which it has been engaged

 Related to or closely associated with foreign official  Third party became part of the transaction at the express request

  • r insistence of the foreign official

 Third party is a shell company incorporated in offshore

jurisdiction

 Requests for payment to offshore bank accounts

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Other Red Flags for Third Parties

 Abnormal use of cash payments  Requests that commission be split or paid to another party  Claims of special relationships with government officials  Personal or professional ties to the government  Employs retired officials from relevant government entity  Employs unnamed consultants or insists on using a particular contractor  Required payment in advance of contract award  Pressure for payments ahead of schedule  Abnormal access to “inside” information  Private meetings with government officials  Lack of relevant expertise expected in business area  Lack of adequate resources to do work  Limited or no work product  Refusal to agree to audit rights  Bad reputation

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Agents

 Bridgestone Corporation (2012). When subsidiary secured business for

marine hoses in Latin America, it paid the local sales agent a “commission” inflated to allow for payments to employees of the state-owned customer.

 UTStarcom, Inc. (2009): U.S. telecom company allegedly paid $1.5m to the

company’s agent in Mongolia, claiming that it was for a “license fee.” Fee was only $50k; balance used to make improper payments to a government

  • fficial

 United Industrial Corp. (2009): Payments through a subsidiary to a retired

Egyptian Air Force (EAF) general with conscious disregard of the high probability he would pass payments to EAF officials to influence award of a contract for aircraft depot.

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Subsidiaries

 DOJ Guidance on parent liability for subsidiary’s conduct under agency principles

 “evaluate the parent’s control—including the parent’s knowledge and direction of

the subsidiary’s actions, both generally and in the context of the specific transaction”

 Schnitzer Steel Ind. Inc. (2006): Alleged bribes by subsidiaries and employees to

  • btain business states: “Schnitzer Steel accepts and acknowledges that it is

responsible for the acts of . . . its wholly owned subsidiary”

 Oscar Meza (former Director of Asia-Pacific Sales for Faro Technologies, Inc.) (2009):

Agreed to country manger request to do business “the Chinese way” authorized subsidiary to pay “referral fees” to employees of Chinese state-owned companies to

  • btain contracts.

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Consultants

 JGC Corp. (Bonny Island cases) (2011). Company’s JV entered into sham

consulting or services agreements through which bribes were negotiated and paid to Nigerian officials

 Alcatel-Lucent SA (2010): French issuer’s senior executives approved retention

and payment of millions of dollars to consultants with no relevant experience or in other cases despite obvious indications that the consultants were performing little or no legitimate work.

 Paradigm BV (2007): Dutch company made a payment to a British West Indies

company recommended as a consultant by a Kazakhstan official to secure a bid for geological software; appeared to have received no services; paid employees of state-owned entities as internal consultants to evaluate company’s software and recommend it to their employers’ procurement departments

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Distributors

 Pfizer H.C.P. (2012). Pfizer entered exclusive distribution contract with Kazakh

company, believing at least some value from the contract would be given to a Kazakh government official to ensure registration of a Pfizer product in Kazakhstan.

 Biomet, Inc. (2012): Biomet employees used local distributors to provide

payments to doctors in Brazil and “consulting fees” and travel to doctors in China for medical device purchases.

 AGA Medical Corp. (2008): Company employees authorized Chinese

distributor to make improper payments to physicians employed by government-owned hospitals in exchange for purchases of company products; distributor also made payments to government officials to ensure approval of patents

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Subcontractor

 Data Systems & Solutions LLC (2012).

Paid bribes to officials at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

through third-party subcontractors in exchange for large contracts

Disguised through fictitious scopes of work to

subcontractors and paid at above-market rates

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Freight Forwarders/Logistics Companies

 Panalpina World Transport (2010): Swiss company bribed

numerous foreign government officials on behalf of customers to circumvent local customs processes in various countries.

 PWT, its U.S. subsidiary and a number of its customers were fined.

 Min Model: James Min, Vice President, Int’l Trade Affairs &

Compliance at DHL developed a model: How often the Customs Broker/Express Delivery Service varies above the average for customs clearance times. If the percentage is high most of the time, this could be a Red Flag that bribery or corruption is involved

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Contact Information

Jim Slear jslear@thompsoncoburn.com 202.585.6981

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FCPA Compliance: Managing Third Party Risk

Kathryn Cameron Atkinson Miller & Chevalier Chartered January 16, 2013

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More Enforcement Actions Being Brought Involving Third Parties

9 9 59 11 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 1992-1996 1997-2001 2002-2006 2007-2011 2012-2015

Combined Enforcement Actions Against Corporations Involving Third Parties 1992 through 2012 (3Q)

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“Directly or Indirectly”

Vicarious liability for the acts of third parties:

  • Agents
  • Sales representatives
  • Consultants
  • Subsidiaries
  • Lawyers
  • Accountants
  • Joint venture partners
  • Relatives of officials
  • Others
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As Applied: Directly or indirectly How can you be aware of a high probability?

  • Hiring a 3rd party who was

likely to pay

  • Failing to investigate 3rd

party risks (at any stage)

  • Making 3rd party payments

contrary to company policy

  • 3rd party agrees to demand

for payment Under the FCPA, a company or individual can be liable for payments made by a third party (like a consultant) if there was awareness of a “high probability” that a payment would be made.

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Third Party Risk: DOJ/SEC Resource Guide

  • All types of third parties present risks
  • Focus on risk-based due diligence, with increasing

scrutiny as red flags are uncovered

  • An effective compliance program will include

mechanisms to reduce risk at all stages of the third party relationship

  • Past enforcement actions and published lists of

common red flags are sources of guidance

  • Ch. 5 hypotheticals provide additional detailed

guidance

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Third Party Risk: Joint Ventures

  • Level of investment and control important
  • Due diligence can be difficult depending on bargaining

power

  • Due diligence essential to facilitate proper agreement

safeguards upon entry into the JV

  • RAE Systems shows need to conduct due diligence

prior to formation, as well as need to implement safeguards in response to the due diligence findings

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Third Party Risk: Professional Advisors

  • Professional consultants and advisors create can

create FCPA risks

  • Baker Hughes involved bribes paid by the local

Indonesian affiliate of KPMG to tax officials to reduce the Company’s tax bill, disguised in an inflated KPMG invoice

  • TSKJ Bonny Island scheme involving

Halliburton/KBR and others funneled bribes to Nigerian

  • fficials in part through Jeffrey Tesler, a U.K. lawyer
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State-Owned Enterprises as Third Parties: Design Institutes

In some countries, your third party may be a state-owned enterprise, raising additional compliance risks and due diligence challenges Rockwell Automation highlights compliance challenges of working with Design Institutes:

  • Employees of wholly-owned subsidiary, RAPS-China, made payments

to employees of Design Institutes through third-party intermediaries

  • The Design Institutes provided some bona fide services to RAPS-China
  • The Design Institutes also offered recommendations to RAPS-China’s

anticipated ultimate customers, i.e., Chinese government-owned mining companies

  • RAPS-China's Marketing and Sales Director intended the payments to

influence the award of sales contracts

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State-Owned Enterprises as Third Parties: Design Institutes

In some countries, your third party may be a state-owned enterprise, raising additional compliance risks and due diligence challenges Rockwell Automation highlights compliance challenges of working with Design Institutes:

  • Employees of wholly-owned subsidiary, RAPS-China, made payments

to employees of Design Institutes through third-party intermediaries

  • The Design Institutes provided some bona fide services to RAPS-China
  • The Design Institutes also offered recommendations to RAPS-China’s

anticipated ultimate customers, i.e., Chinese government-owned mining companies

  • RAPS-China's Marketing and Sales Director intended the payments to

influence the award of sales contracts

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Third Parties Everywhere: Diageo 2011

Diageo’s 2011 settlement revealed its use of various third party structures to make improper payments:

  • In India, Diageo’s subsidiary used distributors and other third parties to make improper

payments to officials to increase sales of liquor to government-run stores

  • Payments were funded through inflated commission payments to distributors, who

passed on the money to officials.

  • In Thailand, Diageo’s joint venture made payments to an official’s consulting firm

(including reimbursement for entertainment expenses) for the official’s lobbying services to resolving tax disputes (the accounting records concealed his direct involvement).

  • In South Korea, Diageo’s subsidiary provided cash, travel and entertainment to customs
  • fficials to obtain a favorable tax rate, including kickbacks paid through their customs
  • broker. Travel for these officials included a purely recreational side trip to Budapest and

Prague.

  • The Korean subsidiary also made hundreds of small “rice cake” payments (in cash or gift

certificates) and “relationship” payments to South Korean military officials involved in liquor procurement.

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What is the Goal?

Mitigate FCPA risk presented by third parties who will stand between you and foreign officials, recognizing that third parties:

  • - may not share your commitment fully; and/or
  • - may not appreciate the vigilance and adherence to

process required to protect against violations; and

  • - are not fully within your control
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What Are Key Characteristics?

  • Design a process that:
  • Covers the appropriate universe of third parties
  • Is tailored to risk
  • Is tailored to resources (cost and time efficient)
  • Can be implemented consistently across the
  • rganization
  • Generates an adequate written record
  • Provides for centralized knowledge at some level
  • Provides for periodic updates
  • Effectively protects the organization against risk
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What are the Questions to be Answered?

  • Why do we need a third party?
  • Why do we need/want this third party?
  • What is the value of this third party’s services? How do we

know?

  • What are the reasonable ways to pay for that value?
  • How do we ensure that the third party provides the value for

which we are paying?

  • Will this third party conduct business consistent with our

ethical and legal obligations, and our expectations?

  • How have we protected ourselves against the risk that we

are making the wrong judgment?

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Addressing Third Party Risks: Due Diligence Policies/Procedures

  • Pre-engagement due diligence
  • Internal proposal
  • Internal reference check
  • Questionnaires and verification
  • Interview(s)
  • External reference checks
  • Public data searches (incl. local press and “blacklist”)
  • Local law check
  • Identification/investigation of specific “red flags”
  • Notification of company gatekeepers
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Addressing Third Party Risks: Due Diligence Policies/Procedures

  • Benchmarking/justifying proposed compensation
  • Interviews
  • Written contract requirements
  • Incorporation of safeguards to address red flags
  • Measures consistent with level of control for JVs
  • Address process for monitoring, audits, certifications,

and updates at formation

  • Multiple company approvals/sign-offs
  • Awareness training (for third parties and “minders”)
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Addressing Third Party Risks: DOJ/SEC Guide Consultant Hypothetical

  • Company seeking to expand into high-risk Country X

learns of $50m Ministry of Immigation contract tender

  • SVP of International Sales suggests local

businessman as 3rd party

  • 3rd party claims strong ties to government and political

leaders, can help win the contract

  • Company enters contract:
  • Best efforts to win the contract
  • Retainer plus success fee of 3% of contract value
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Addressing Third Party Risks: DOJ/SEC Guide Consultant Hypothetical

  • Red flags:
  • High Risk Country
  • Size and significance of deal to the Company
  • First-time use of this 3rd party
  • Claimed strong ties to officials
  • Success fee structure
  • Vaguely-defined services
  • Due Diligence Response:
  • Background and reference checks
  • Detailed description of services in contract (including status reports)
  • Anti-corruption training for 3rd party
  • Anti-corruption compliance language in contract
  • Obtain and exercise audit rights
  • Ensure proper documentation for payments
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Addressing Third Party Risks: DOJ/SEC Guide Distributor/Partner Hypothetical

  • Distributor learns of opportunity, proposes to expand services to market

Company to Ministry

  • Distributor requests increased discount/rebate or lump sum/success fee given

anticipated after-sales services

  • Distributor reports Ministry prefers local company work as subcontractor (on

work Company or Distributor would normally perform)

  • Subcontractor has solid relationship with Ministry, so will do most work on-site
  • One of Subcontractor principals (Principal 1) is an official in another Ministry

Due Diligence Response:

  • What is economic justification for compensation proposed? Disconnect

between justification offered and presence of subcontractor?

  • Extra scrutiny of relationship among Distributor, Ministry, and Contractor
  • Additional safeguards (certification, recusals, notice) re: Principal 1’s role
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Addressing Third Party Risks: DOJ/SEC Guide Distributor/Partner Hypothetical

  • Retention requires Finance and Compliance approval
  • Finance questions deep discounts, and overlap in services, requests meeting with

Distributor and Principal 1 to discuss

  • Meeting shows Principal 1 has no substantive qualifications, and Distributor cannot

support discount with any analysis

  • Distributor complains to SVP that Finance doesn’t get “how business is done”
  • SVP dismisses Finance concerns and reminds Finance deal is important to Company
  • Compliance conducts due diligence on Distributor, Local Partners
  • Distributor reputable, qualified, and financially stable
  • Local Partner founded 2 years ago, financially stable, no expertise in industry
  • Both 3rd parties have opened new offshore accounts/shell entity for this transaction
  • Principal 1 was college roommate of Minister
  • SVP dismisses Compliance concerns, defends all as legitimate business structures

and argues questionnaire and contractual safeguards are sufficient to protect the Company

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Addressing Third Party Risks: DOJ/SEC Guide Distributor/Partner Hypothetical

  • Compliance and Finance sign off, even though concerns not addressed
  • Distributor and Local Partner pass compensation through to Minister and others

to secure the contract

  • SVP also receives money from 3rd parties in his own offshore account
  • DOJ/SEC Enforcement Analysis:
  • SVP not a rogue
  • Due diligence was incomplete
  • Reliance on questionnaires and contract safeguards not enough given red flags
  • SVP appears to have actual knowledge of payments, or at least willfully blind and

discouraged others from following their instincts = personal liability under antibribery and accounting controls provisions

  • Company may also be liable; significance and number of red flags left unaddressed

rise to “high probability”

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Accounting Provisions: Internal Controls

  • Payments contrary to company policies (Chiquita)
  • Payments without prior due diligence (InVision)
  • Failure to document payments (Titan)
  • Failure to provide FCPA training to consultant (Oil States

International)

  • Failure to implement adequate internal controls at JVs and

subsidiaries post-acquisition (RAE, Diageo)

  • Misrepresenting payments to third parties in books and

records (e.g., recording bribes paid through distributor as “commissions”) (Diageo)

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Kathryn Cameron Atkinson katkinson@milchev.com Miller & Chevalier 655 Fifteenth Street, N.W. Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 202.626.5957 202.626.5801

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Third Party Due Diligence

  • J. Daniel Chapman

Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel dan.chapman@parkerdrilling.com

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NYSE: PKD

Defining and reevaluating your due diligence for third parties

 Weighing third party risks to develop a “risk-based” approach  The number of due diligence procedure sets that a company should maintain  Content and analysis of a due diligence file

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Weighing the risks presented by third parties

 Geography  Your company’s industry  The type of third party

 The third party’s industry  Representative capacity

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Distinguishing third party representatives from other third parties

 Greater responsibility/liability for representatives’ actions  Representative relationship vs. independence = question of representative capacity  Higher level / greater appearance of representative capacity merits a higher level of due diligence  Representative capacity for

 Dealings with governments and government officials  Customers

– Resellers can be both a customer and a representative in certain situations

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Most common types of third party representatives

Type

 Commercial Consultants  Processing Consultants  Professional Consultants  Mixed Consultants  Other Vendors?

Activities

General sales, government sales, marketing Customs, visas, licensing and permitting, freight forwarding, shipping Legal services, accounting Distributors, joint venture partners, joint ventures, some subcontractors

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Three types of procedures – due diligence process for third party representatives

Extensive pre-retention due diligence requirements pertaining to, as well as post-retention oversight of, all agents and business partners, including the maintenance of complete due diligence records at the company

– FCPA Review Opinion Procedure Release No. 04-2 (July 12, 2004)

 Pre-engagement process  Oversight and re-evaluation  Recordkeeping Additional standards may apply for each procedure set based upon risk profile and emergency situations

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Considerations – due diligence process for third party representatives

 Coverage – representatives to whom?  Commercial value  Dedication of adequate resources  Purpose – choose only third party representatives that do not commit bribery  Implementation  Frequency of secondary reviews  File access and maintenance  Common sense and pragmatism

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Due diligence analysis

 FCPA due diligence analysis for all representatives will include the following steps:

 Step One: Consider the reputation for corruption of the

country in question

– Review information from governmental organizations – Review information from non-governmental organizations, such as Transparency International

 Step Two: Determine the competence of the

representative or business partner

– Qualifications of candidate (expertise, resources) – Identification of representative’s expected activities

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Due diligence analysis

 Step Three: Determine the integrity of the representative

  • r business partner

– Conduct interview with candidate / internal point of contact – Obtain and interview business / financial references – Review U.S. and non-U.S. restricted parties lists – Media / internet searches – Identification of known conflicts

 Step Four: Identify any relationships between the

representative or business partner and non-U.S. government officials (and customers)

– Entity information / documentation – Ownership – Directors / officers / key employees – Past and present relationships with government agencies

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Due diligence analysis

 Step Five: Determine the business justification and

reasonableness of compensation and payments

– Terms (commission, term, territory, etc.) – Business justification (current opportunities in territory, how candidate was identified, etc.)

 Step Six: Ensure that answers provided by the

representative or business partner to due diligence questions are accurate and complete.

– Verify information received from consultant with interviews of business references and background search

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Due diligence analysis

 Step Seven: Ensure compliance with local law  Step Eight: Integrate FCPA safeguards into the

representative’s or business partner’s agreement

 Step Nine: Provide for continuing oversight of the activities

  • f the representative or business partner – a “sponsor” for

all representatives must be assigned and will be responsible for ensuring continuing oversight

 Step Ten: Ensure maintenance of accurate books and

records

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Due diligence analysis

 Step Eleven: When appropriate, consider seeking

guidance from the Department of Justice under the FCPA Review Procedure

 Step Twelve: Use consistent standards and common

sense

 Notes:

– Specific level and type of due diligence that is required for each representative and business partner will vary. – Circumstances may compel additional due diligence and/or oversight efforts

  • n a case by case basis.

– Due diligence is not a one-time activity. Periodic refreshing of due diligence and ongoing oversight is essential.

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 Employee sponsor prepares:

Business justification form

Internet research  Third party representative completes:

Acknowledgement letter

Applicant questionnaire

Affiliated parties charts

Reference forms  Compliance Department prepares:

Restricted parties screening report

Independent investigative report (mid-level risk) or legal opinion (high-risk)  Legal Department prepares:

Final draft of contract with third party representative  Employee sponsor, Legal Department and Compliance Department prepare:

Compliance enhancement memoranda

Example – Parker Drilling’s compliance review files

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  • J. Daniel Chapman

Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel dan.chapman@parkerdrilling.com