Corporate Compliance, Internal Investigations & Business Crime
Bruchou & Funes de Rioja leads the Corporate Compliance, Investigations and Business Crime practice in Argentina. Two full-time partners of recognized local and international professional experience –Guillermo Jorge, who leads the Department, and Fernando Basch– offer a unique combination of knowledge and experience in the market to prevent criminal risks and align internal policies with the best corporate governance & compliance practices.
We advise multinational companies, financial institutions, and public entities on complex compliance, governance, and enforcement challenges. We assist clients in anticipating and mitigating risks associated with anti-bribery and anti-money laundering regimes, economic sanctions, ESG compliance, and corporate criminal liability, under both local and global standards such as the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and OECD Anti-Bribery Convention implementing legislation.
In recent years, Argentina and the major economies of our continent have created strong incentives for the private sector to prevent fraud, corruption, the laundering of assets of illicit origin, crimes that affect the environment, the stock market, free competition and consumers. Guillermo Jorge and Fernando Basch have been consulted about the design and implementation of such legal frameworks in most of the countries of the region, including Argentina. Their expertise places them in an unparalleled position to offer advice on the most appropriate risk mitigating strategies to our corporate clients.
The Department has unparalleled expertise conducting complex internal investigations, local and multi-jurisdictional, assisted by the most sophisticated forensic technologies and artificial intelligence.
Our services are also nourished by the expertise of our partners in each of the practice areas to which our compliance solutions are applied. The involvement of our partners in the areas of HR Law, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy & New Technologies, Customs Law & Foreign Trade, Banking & Capital Markets, Energy and Mining, to mention a few examples, fine-tunes the compliance, risk mitigating strategies, and integrity programs we design for each industry’s clients.
- Advice in and development of internal investigations
We have a wealth of experience in conducting internal investigations on bribery, money-laundering, corporate fraud, environmental crime and antitrust issues, among other matters. We have in-depth knowledge of public procurement, governmental affairs, business practices, as well as its context in Latin America. We are assisted by the most sophisticated forensic technologies and artificial intelligence.
- Criminal compliance counselling
Cooperation with the authorities is a recent trend in the Latin American criminal legal landscape. While enforcement authorities are getting a handle on the subject, our background and reputation in helping governments design these frameworks uniquely position us to represent clients in negotiated solutions and developing mitigating and remedial strategies.
- Anticorruption Collective Action
Tolerance of corruption allows the formation of networks of illicit exchanges that, over time, institutionalize practices that compete and often substitute formal rules. We approach systemic corruption through remedial strategies aligning the incentives of the main stakeholders to cooperate and re-establish trust in legal compliance.
- Compliance Programs & ISO Certifications
We frequently design, implement and evaluate anti-corruption, AML, antitrust, and anti-fraud compliance programs, including against the requirements of ISO Certifications 19600, 37001, and 37002. Our experience in the region allows us to act as one-stop shop for the compliance practice in Latin America.
- Recovery of assets from fraud and corruption
The Recovery of assets from fraud and public corruption is a practice that requires knowledge and synergy between various legal disciplines: commercial, financial, bankruptcy, criminal law, criminal procedure, reciprocal legal assistance in civil and criminal law, precautionary measures law, right of discovery of evidence, among others.
Guillermo Jorge, lead partner of the practice, is a member of FraudNet, an international network of 125 leading asset recovery attorneys. FraudNet membership extends exclusively to specialized attorneys. With a presence in 81 countries, FraudNet has been rated by Chambers & Partners, consecutively since 2012, as the most important network of lawyers dedicated to the recovery of assets of illicit origin in the world.
Using sophisticated investigative and forensic tools, as well as cutting-edge criminal & civil litigation strategies, FraudNet members have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of some of the largest and most complex global frauds.
We advise multinational companies, financial institutions, and public entities on complex compliance, governance, and enforcement challenges. We assist clients in anticipating and mitigating risks associated with anti-bribery and anti-money laundering regimes, economic sanctions, ESG compliance, and corporate criminal liability, under both local and global standards such as the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and OECD Anti-Bribery Convention implementing legislation.
In recent years, Argentina and the major economies of our continent have created strong incentives for the private sector to prevent fraud, corruption, the laundering of assets of illicit origin, crimes that affect the environment, the stock market, free competition and consumers. Guillermo Jorge and Fernando Basch have been consulted about the design and implementation of such legal frameworks in most of the countries of the region, including Argentina. Their expertise places them in an unparalleled position to offer advice on the most appropriate risk mitigating strategies to our corporate clients.
The Department has unparalleled expertise conducting complex internal investigations, local and multi-jurisdictional, assisted by the most sophisticated forensic technologies and artificial intelligence.
Our services are also nourished by the expertise of our partners in each of the practice areas to which our compliance solutions are applied. The involvement of our partners in the areas of HR Law, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy & New Technologies, Customs Law & Foreign Trade, Banking & Capital Markets, Energy and Mining, to mention a few examples, fine-tunes the compliance, risk mitigating strategies, and integrity programs we design for each industry’s clients.
- Advice in and development of internal investigations
We have a wealth of experience in conducting internal investigations on bribery, money-laundering, corporate fraud, environmental crime and antitrust issues, among other matters. We have in-depth knowledge of public procurement, governmental affairs, business practices, as well as its context in Latin America. We are assisted by the most sophisticated forensic technologies and artificial intelligence.
- Criminal compliance counselling
Cooperation with the authorities is a recent trend in the Latin American criminal legal landscape. While enforcement authorities are getting a handle on the subject, our background and reputation in helping governments design these frameworks uniquely position us to represent clients in negotiated solutions and developing mitigating and remedial strategies.
- Anticorruption Collective Action
Tolerance of corruption allows the formation of networks of illicit exchanges that, over time, institutionalize practices that compete and often substitute formal rules. We approach systemic corruption through remedial strategies aligning the incentives of the main stakeholders to cooperate and re-establish trust in legal compliance.
- Compliance Programs & ISO Certifications
We frequently design, implement and evaluate anti-corruption, AML, antitrust, and anti-fraud compliance programs, including against the requirements of ISO Certifications 19600, 37001, and 37002. Our experience in the region allows us to act as one-stop shop for the compliance practice in Latin America.
- Recovery of assets from fraud and corruption
The Recovery of assets from fraud and public corruption is a practice that requires knowledge and synergy between various legal disciplines: commercial, financial, bankruptcy, criminal law, criminal procedure, reciprocal legal assistance in civil and criminal law, precautionary measures law, right of discovery of evidence, among others.
Guillermo Jorge, lead partner of the practice, is a member of FraudNet, an international network of 125 leading asset recovery attorneys. FraudNet membership extends exclusively to specialized attorneys. With a presence in 81 countries, FraudNet has been rated by Chambers & Partners, consecutively since 2012, as the most important network of lawyers dedicated to the recovery of assets of illicit origin in the world.
Using sophisticated investigative and forensic tools, as well as cutting-edge criminal & civil litigation strategies, FraudNet members have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of some of the largest and most complex global frauds.