Effective Compliance: Practices and Tools for Corporate Lawyers
28 Sep 2026 - 01 Oct 2026 | Rome, Italy
Course overview:
This seminar designed to help corporate lawyers and compliance professionals strengthen and modernise their compliance frameworks in response to tightening global regulation, expanding sanctions regimes, and growing ESG expectations. The programme covers international anti-corruption legislation, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act, sanctions compliance, internal investigations, risk mapping, and the integration of sustainability standards into legal strategy. Combining expert-led instruction, real-life case studies, interactive discussions, and practical exercises, the seminar equips participants with concrete tools to build effective compliance programmes, engage top management, and foster a strong compliance culture within their organisations.
- Corporate lawyers and in-house legal counsel
- Heads of legal departments and General Counsel
- Chief Compliance Officers and compliance managers
- Corporate governance executives and board secretaries
- Internal audit and internal control specialists
- Risk management professionals
- ESG and sustainability officers involved in governance and reporting
By the end of the seminar, participants will be able to design and assess the effectiveness of corporate compliance programmes, conduct compliance risk analyses and develop risk maps, and implement practical sanctions and anti-corruption controls. They will strengthen their ability to interact strategically with top management, measure and demonstrate programme effectiveness, and manage expectations at board level.
- Key challenges for corporate lawyers and compliance officers
- Practical aspects of building and implementing an effective compliance programme
- Interaction with top management and control of programme effectiveness
- Sanctions and counter-sanctions
- International Anti-Corruption laws and strategies to address misconduct
- How to effectively conduct compliance investigations
- Sustainability and ESG: what corporate lawyer needs to know
- How to create a corporate compliance culture?
Course facilitator:
Timur Khasanov-Batyrov
Timur Khasanov-Batyrov is a Certified Compliance Specialist (ICA), a Certified Fraud Prevention Specialist (ICA, UK), and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (USA). He is the co-founder of the ‘Compliance Club’ and has 25 years of experience as a lawyer and compliance officer across the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, and the USA. His professional background spans industries such as pharmaceuticals, energy, consultancy, telecom, FMCG, and biotechnology. Timur represents the Compliance and Business Ethics Association in the EU and co-hosts the Compliance Man podcast on high-compliance-risk regions with Thomas Fox (USA). Additionally, he is the creator of the YouTube channel 1001 Compliance Days, a resource for lawyers and compliance practitioners. Timur is a frequent speaker on compliance topics at conferences held in the USA, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK.