Region: New Zealand

Whistleblowing laws fall down because they don’t incentivise good corporate culture within organisations and put risk and cost on the employee, rather than the employer, say William Fotherby and Emma Barnes at MC in Auckland.

21 March 2022

In the latest Counsel Watch, Accenture is advising the UK government on counter fraud measures related to the covid-19 pandemic and Bär & Karrer helped Dutch oil services company SBM Offshore reach a bribery investigation settlement in Switzerland.

30 November 2021

A report commissioned by New Zealand’s central bank has found that the local branch of major Australian lender Westpac has inadequate risk management and compliance systems.

26 November 2021

A veteran London barrister has acted in the convictions of two corporates in as many weeks, and Clifford Chance has helped resolve financial crime investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.

11 October 2021

30 September 2021

A high court judge said that comments by a senior CLSAP executive that the bank needed a “bendier” head of compliance suggested that its violations of the local anti-money laundering law were intentional.

14 September 2021

31 August 2021

22 July 2021

13 April 2021

Despite finishing top of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, New Zealand’s anti-corruption laws are outdated, porous and rarely enforced, writes Meredith Connell’s William Fotherby and Stephen Rankin.

30 March 2020