Our Corporate Compliance practice area is responsible for advising and supporting clients in the identification, prevention, and mitigation of legal risks, ensuring compliance with current legislation and international best practices. Its comprehensive approach encompasses the design, implementation, and supervision of compliance programs that enable companies to operate ethically and transparently, reducing exposure to sanctions and reputational damage.
Key services include:
– Design and implementation of compliance programs tailored to the specific structure and risks of each organization, including the development of policies, procedures, and codes of conduct.
– Evaluation and improvement of prevention models to review the functioning of compliance programs, identify gaps, and provide recommendations for improvement based on the regulatory framework and international standards.
– Training and awareness-raising: development of training programs for managers and employees on best practices, current regulations, and risk management, with a practical case-based approach.
– Internal audits and investigations: detection and analysis of possible regulatory non-compliance, fraud, or irregularities within the organization, proposing mitigation and corrective measures.
– Due diligence in transactions: assessment of legal and compliance risks in mergers and acquisitions, financing, strategic partnerships, or investments, ensuring alignment with ethical and regulatory standards.
– Advice on specific regulations: compliance in areas such as anti-corruption, free competition, personal data protection, prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism, occupational safety, and environmental regulations.
Hernández & Cía.’s services in this area not only function as control mechanisms to ensure compliance with applicable regulations but also position our firm as a strategic ally to its clients. We promote an organizational culture based on ethics and transparency, a with the aim of providing clients with a broader legal certainty in their operations and strengthen their reputation in the market.