Cuatrecasas Compliance Corner | 1st quarter 2025

2025-04-24T11:00:00
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Multidisciplinary communication channel on corporate compliance

Cuatrecasas Compliance Corner | 1st quarter 2025
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April 24, 2025

We are pleased to announce the launch of Cuatrecasas Compliance Corner, a new communication channel designed to offer a current, practical, and multidisciplinary perspective on corporate compliance.

Cuatrecasas Compliance Corner is a periodic publication aimed at compliance officers, both in Spain and internationally, with the goal of informing, inspiring, and supporting them in their daily challenges.

Regulatory developments

Review of the main regulatory developments and relevant standards in Compliance.

  • Updates on the Independent Whistleblower Protection Authority.
  • New ISO 37001: Anti-bribery management systems.
  • Draft bill transposing the NIS2 Directive.
  • Draft bill to penalise non-compliance with restrictive measures of the European Union.
  • Draft bill on Interest Groups.
  • Omnibus I Proposal (and its impact on CS3D) and Stop-the-Clock Directive.
  • Developments in the regulation of Artificial Intelligence.

Good to know

Reflections, advice, and best practices from our experts on current issues, from the operational impact of new regulations to key trends in compliance management.

  • How will the appointment of the IIA affect Spanish companies?
  • What are the main new features introduced in the second edition of ISO 37001:2025?
  • What is the scope of the review of harassment protocols: protection for LGTBI people and compliance with Act 2/2023?
  • Is it mandatory to offer a prior hearing to employees before dismissal?

Relevant cases

Analysis of judicial and regulatory decisions that set a precedent.

  • The General Court of the European Union (GCEU) assesses a compliance program unfavorably and confirms the exclusion imposed.
  • The National High Court applies for the first time the exonerating excuse to the manager of a company for denouncing a cartel. 
  • AEPD sanction for violating the right to confidentiality of several complaints of workplace harassment.

Beyond our borders

International look at phenomena affecting the global Compliance landscape.

  • Moratorium on FCPA enforcement in the US.
  • Designation of international cartels as terrorist organizations.
  • UK-Europe Anti-Corruption Task Force.

Events

Upcoming Cuatrecasas meetings that may be of interest to Compliance professionals —seminars, breakfasts, conferences— and access to materials from past events.

Behind the Compliance Corner

A different closing in each edition. In this first edition, the editorial team gives us the "why" of this new project.

 

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April 24, 2025