International law firm CMS is holding a free-to-attend event next week designed to help companies comply with new UK Government anti-fraud legislation.
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) aims to reduce fraud and economic crime in the UK. A section of the Act, which comes into effect in September, will further extend the responsibilities of many large companies in preventing fraud offences carried out by their employees, agents and subsidiaries.
The CMS ECCTA: Failure to Prevent Fraud seminar being staged on Tuesday, 25 February, will focus on the key implications around these the new measures. The event is designed to advise companies on how to be compliant with the new rules and put in place reasonable procedures to prevent fraud within their business.
The speakers at the 1-hour online event include Eoin O’Shea, a CMS Partner and the head of the firm’s Corporate Crime Practice; Of Counsels and Corporate Crime Practice colleagues Kitty St Aubyn and Sally Clark; and Senior Associate Amy Wilkinson.
Sally Clark said: “The key focus of this event is to support business with this new ECCTA legislation to proactively enable fraud prevention. In light of the new rules, it’s vital for companies large and small to consider their fraud prevention processes and infrastructure. Not only will substantial anti-fraud governance and processes benefit their businesses, this will also be key to their defence should they find themselves subject to a criminal investigation in future.”
Companies wishing to attend the ECCTA: Failure to Prevent Fraud event can apply for registration here
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