Defense transactions often involve heightened regulatory and compliance risk. They often feature controlled goods or technology, cross-border supply chains, government procurement, intermediaries, offset obligations or state-linked counterparties. These risk factors can give rise to exposure under sanctions, export-control, anti-bribery and anti-money-laundering regimes, as well as potential reputational consequences and restrictions on future government contracting.
Effective compliance due diligence is a critical part of assessing and managing transaction risk. It requires a tailored approach that reflects the target’s operations, jurisdictions, customers, supply chain and relationships with government officials, state-owned entities and other high-risk third parties.
In this webinar, White & Case partners Anneka Randhawa, Sara Nordin and Daniel Zapf, along with associate Mats Cuvelier, examine how to conduct strategic, risk-based compliance diligence at all stages of defense-sector transactions. They consider key red flags, approaches to scoping and conducting reviews, and methods for translating diligence findings into appropriate contractual protections, remediation measures and post-closing risk-management plans.
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