INTEGRITY COMPLIANCE PROGRAMMES
Pavocat Chambers is a premier provider of comprehensive integrity and compliance solutions for businesses worldwide. Our barristers understand the pivotal role of integrity compliance programs (ICPs) and their profound impact on mitigating financial and reputational risks. As your trusted partner, we offer invaluable insights into effective compliance strategies that will fortify your organisation’s commitment to ethical governance.
Our barristers have decades of established experience in compliance (by way of example, Lee Marler was the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer for several years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London and, thereafter, the Director of Operations at the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency (“INT”)). They are regularly instructed by companies and organisations to design, improve, implement and monitor ICPs as a means of mitigating their respective exposure to integrity risks:
Recent examples of this are the bespoke and proportionate ICPs which Lee Marler produced from scratch for companies wishing to expand their business operations into high-risk integrity jurisdictions such as Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Our counsel not only produce and implement the ICPs on behalf of companies and organisations, but introduce and advocate their merits, as necessary, to regulators world-wide in order to further reduce the risk of subsequent investigation and prosecution.
Pavocat Chambers makes for a trusted partner in navigating the intricately complex legal issues that come to the fore during investigations into bribery and corruption. Knowing that prevention is ultimately the better policy, we create robust compliance frameworks, using strategies for effective anti-bribery compliance to safeguard organisations against financial and reputational risks.
“Lee is an outstanding compliance professional and anatural leader who consistently gets the best from the teams he leads, and delivers the best for his clients.”
Jonathan Shapiro
Principal, Shapiro Advisers LLC &former World Bank Integrity Compliance Officer
Pavocat has operated within the following International Governmental Organisations:
- African Development Bank (Tunis & Abidjan)
- Asian Development Bank (Manila)
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Beijing)
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (London)
- European Investment Bank (Luxembourg)
- Inter-American Development Bank
(Washington DC) - Islamic Development Bank (Jeddah)
- New Development Bank (Shanghai)
- Nordic Investment Bank (Helsinki)
- World Bank Group (Washington DC)
As experts in countering fraud and corruption in all of its various forms, Barristers from Pavocat Chambers are regularly instructed to lead complex and high-level integrity investigations on behalf of companies and organisations globally. Our barristers have extensive international experience and expertise in the conduct of such inquiries, and, to quote a client, “their work is consistently exemplary”. Their Final Investigative Reports, based upon their agreed strategy and action-plans for the investigation, are legally watertight, meticulously drafted and can be relied upon by the client with complete confidence. Our Counsel not only plan, manage and lead the investigation, but, if required, build the inquiry team and populate it with ‘class leading’ investigators such as Sir Hugh Orde OBE, QPM and Stuart Osborne QPM. Pavocat Chambers investigation teams have no equal and their work is truly “a model for others to follow”.
“We have forged a dynamic partnership in the heart of Africa, where the indefatigable Lee has proven himself to be not just an experienced barrister, but a shining beacon of integrity. Unfazed by the treacherous terrain of justice, he fearlessly pursues the truth, undeterred by the labyrinthine complexities that come his way or the relentless pressures of the pursuit. Lee epitomises legal excellence, effortlessly transitioning between the roles of a masterful lawyer and a brilliant investigator. In his unyielding dedication to uncovering the truth, he is a force to be reckoned with.”
Akere T. Muna
President, ECOSOCC (2008-2014), President, Pan Africa Lawyers Union (2005-2016), President, Cameroon Bar Association, African Development Bank Sanctions Judge
Lee Marler and Mark Tomassi of Pavocat Chambers are currently instructed in a long-running investigation in support of the defence of a significant telecommunications company charged and indicted in the United States.
Professor Lee Marler
Professor Lee Marler
Mark Tomassi
Mark Tomassi
Investigation teams constituted by our barristers have included the following top-tier investigators with whom we are proud to work and associate:
Sir Hugh Order
