Kristy Grant-Hart, Kisten Liston & I have just published a new book, The Compliance Entrepreneur’s Handbook: Tools, Tips, and Tactics to Find Your Killer Idea and Create Success on Your Own Terms

It helps people start their own business in the compliance field, but is useful for anyone starting out in a business of their own. It’s available on Amazon:  https://tinyurl.com/34fetv8v

 Thank you to Concurrences for this recognition, and to the 70+ colleagues around the world who joined me in being part of the Antitrust Compliance Network!  Joe

Special Award: The Antitrust Compliance Network

The Antitrust Compliance Network started as a simple email network among those around the world who believed in the importance of antitrust/competition law compliance programs, and in the government’s role in promoting such programs by effective policy measures. The group did not believe that mere words made compliance programs effective, and did not believe that mere words on the government’s part would promote such programs. They pushed for the governments to use their leverage to get companies to enhance their compliance efforts, and this meant that governments needed to distinguish companies that did not care and did not try, from those that acted in good faith and had diligent competition law compliance programs. Contact: Joe Murphy

Antitrust Compliance Awards: Winners

Paris, May 10, 2021

From: Concurrences

The winners of the 2021 Antitrust Compliance Awards have been announced at the Virtual Ceremony held on Monday, May 10th in the presence of the Board Members and nominees.

Who is the organizer?

Concurrences is an independent legal publisher, dedicated to antitrust law and competition economics, founded in 2004. Concurrences have offices in Paris, London, and New York. Its leading publication is “Concurrences Review”, a quarterly journal. Concurrences holds around 50 events every year in Brussels, London, Paris, New York, Washington DC and Hong Kong. Since March 2020, Concurrences held 60 webinars gathering over 10,000 attendees in 75 countries, reaching a global audience. See here.

What are the Antitrust Compliance Awards?

The Antitrust Compliance Awards aims to promote antitrust compliance by bringing together 5 stakeholders:enforcers, academics, corporations, law firms, forensics and legal techs.

The program consisted of four webinars from January to April 2021 and the Awards Ceremony and oneAwards Ceremony on May 10, 2021.

Initiatives from over 25 competition agencies worldwide and 15 global corporations (AB InBev, BNP Paribas, CMA CGM, ExxonMobil, Google, HSBC, Maersk, NewsCorp, Qualcomm, Saint Gobain, Shell, Unilever, Valeo…) were received for this 2021 edition.

Who are members of the Jury?

Isabelle DE SILVA, Autorité de la concurrence, France

Olivier GUERSENT, DG COMP, EU Commission, Belgium

William KOVACIC, George Washington University, USA

Anne RILEY, Shell (formerly), UK

Joshua H. SOVEN, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, USA

I have a friend who refuses to be recognized for all that she does. She says “we are all just penciled in.” I appreciate her philosophy, but I have a different belief. If someone has thought about you enough to recognize you, then let them express what they believe. Let them thank you, or congratulate you. There’s enough sad and difficult moments in life, why not have others share in something good? So to the good people at Compliance Week, thank you for this.

Joe and Emil Moschella, have written a post for NYU urging governments to use compliance and ethics programs as a tool to address issues with police departments.  Emil is Executive Director and Joe is chair of the Rutgers Center for Government Compliance and Ethics.

Corporate Compliance Approach to Racism and Excessive Force Issues in Police Departments

https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2020/08/03/corporate-compliance-approach-to-racism-and-excessive-force-issues-in-police-departments/

Joe was a chapter author and a member of the editorial board in the just released ABA book, THE ANTITRUST COMPLIANCE HANDBOOK: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE (ABA Section of Antitrust Law; 2019).  Joe has written and spoken extensively on the subject of antirust compliance.

Joe Murphy has been recognized in Trust!, The Magazine of Trust Across America – Trust Around the World as Trust Across America 2019 Top Thought Leader in Trust.

For 40 years, Joe has been a tire-less champion of compliance and ethics in organizations, published over 100 articles and given over 200 presentations in 17 countries. Joe travels the world helping compliance and ethics professionals steer their companies and other organizations along the straight and narrow path.

Joe has posted a detailed draft analysis of ISO 37001 on the Social Science Research Network. Is this the new standard for anti-corruption compliance programs, or still a work in progress? Will it help improve compliance programs, or cause companies to make mistakes, or maybe do both? What do you think of this standard? Should companies be applying this today? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3315737

ISO 37001 on anti-corruption compliance management systems has been unusually controversial. Joe proposes starting a discussion on the FCPA blog on how to fix ISO 37001 and the certification process:  https://tinyurl.com/y8payzch 

I just learned that earlier this year I was selected as a Top Thought Leader by Trust Across America – Trust Around the World.  Thank you for this honor.  https://www.trustacrossamerica.com/documents/magazine/Trust-Magazine-2018-winter.pdf