Any company wishing to build a future needs to comply with the rules that govern its business. This voluntary process enables it to derive greater benefit from an increasingly complex legal environment.

To implement a Compliance - Risk Management Program, the company will adopt an ethical approach to business, which also creates value, offering it a greater understanding of this legal environment and providing it with the means to control it and anticipate how it will evolve:

As a result, the company's image is enhanced in the eyes of consumers, its customers, suppliers, sales networks, business partners, and in the eyes of investors, the media, rating organisations and government authorities.

Brand respectability is increased.
Individual and collective risks are mitigated.
Costs are controlled.

Gide Loyrette Nouel advises its clients on the implementation of Compliance - Risk Management Programs in France and all over the world, offering personalised assistance in accordance with ethical rules. These programs are tailored to each company's specific requirements.

The Economic and European Law Practice Group is regularly instructed by influential market operators to conduct full audits of their structural links, commercial and contractual practices from a competition, distribution and consumer law point of view. This audits give rise to recommendations implemented by revising contracts and pricing practices, dismantling and/or restructuring group or affiliate companies.

A Compliance - Risk Management Program is completed by a control audit and, if necessary, training courses specifically defined and given to all employees in contact with customers, suppliers, competitors and government departments or agencies.

Contacts
Xavier de Roux
Marie-Pia Hutin-Houillon (Compliance - Risk Management Program Supervision)