19th Advanced Forum on
& ANTI-CORRUPTION FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
INDUSTRY May 9–10 • New York Bar Association, New York, NY
Derek Ettinger
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH DISTINGUISHED 2024 CO-CHAIRS
Assistant Chief, FCPA Unit, Fraud Section, Criminal Division
U.S. Department of Justice
MEET AND BENCHMARK WITH SENIOR EXECUTIVES FROM:
Fresenius
Bristol Myers Squibb
Eli Lilly and Company
Johnson & Johnson
Gilead Sciences
General Electric
GE Healthcare
Takeda
3M Healthcare
Dentsply Sirona
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Align Technology
Ionis Pharmaceuticals
ICON Plc (Ireland)
Stryker
Ra Medical Systems
Charles Cain Chief, FCPA Unit U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Zimmer Biomet
Siemens Healthineers
Cook Group Inc. and Cook Medical Foundation Medicine
CDx Diagnostics Novartis
Medtronic IQVIA (UK)
Claudius O. Sokenu
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary Avantor
Natasha Trifun
Executive Director, Head of Compliance, R&D, Global Medical, External Funding and Global Functions
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
NEW,
PRACTICAL SESSIONS:
Share-All NEW DOJ/OIG COMPLIANCE BEST PRACTICES: Putting DOJ and HHS-OIG Compliance Program Protocols into Action
Share-All VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES: Understanding “Prompt Reporting”, Cooperation Credit, Remediation and When to Engage Outside Counsel
Share-All M&A AND JOINT VENTURE DUE DILIGENCE: High-Stakes Decision-Making Around DOJ’s Safe Harbor Policy and Post-Transaction Integration
MORE INTERNATIONALLY FOCUSED DISCUSSIONS:
Share-All NEW COMPLIANCE CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico Market Entry Due Diligence for Public/Private Ventures
Share-All CHINA: The Anti-Corruption Crackdown and Managing High Stakes Nightmare Scenarios
Share-All EMERGING MARKET ENTRY-HYPOTHETICALS: Data Localization and Cross-Border Data Transfers, Investigative Trends
Supporting Sponsor
Associate Sponsors
GOVERNMENT SPEAKER
Derek Ettinger
Assistant Chief, FCPA Unit, Fraud Section, Criminal Division
U.S. Department of Justice
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER FACULTY
Ash Aggarwal
Principal, Global Commercial Compliance
IQVIA (UK)
Matt Couillard
Vice President, Product Development
TDI
Charles Cain
Chief, FCPA Unit
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2024 CO-CHAIRS
Claudius O. Sokenu
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance
Officer, Corporate Secretary
Avantor
Natasha Trifun
Executive Director, Head of Compliance, R&D, Global Medical, External Funding and Global Functions
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Marcus A. Asner
Partner
Arnold & Porter
Liana Cunha
Compliance Director, Latin America
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Martine M. Beamon
Partner
Davis Polk & Wardell LLP
Gwen Chapman
Chief Compliance Officer
Illumina Inc.
Joshua Drew
Partner
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
Corey Dunbar
Managing Director
BDO
Jennifer Chunias
Partner
Goodwin Proctor LLP
Andrew Cliver
Head of Compliance, North America
Siemens Healthineers
Adam Falkowitz
Head of Legal, North America
Getinge
Ciara Farrell
Vice President, Associate General Counsel and
Global Head of Ethics and Compliance
ICON Plc (Ireland)
SPEAKER FACULTY
Esther Flesch Partner
Miguel Neto Advogados (Brazil)
Christina Hud
Global Investigations Senior Compliance Counsel Pfizer
Former Acting Chief & Senior Trial Counsel, Health Care Fraud Unit, U.S. Department of Justice
Juan Luis Fuentes
Director, Healthcare Compliance, Government Affairs & Policy
Johnson & Johnson
Gene Ingoglia Partner
A&O Shearman
Daniel Grooms
Partner
Cooley LLP
Former Assistant United States Attorney and Criminal Chief, U.S. Department of Justice
Susanne M. Hanchar
Associate Vice President – Global Ethics and Compliance, Anti-Corruption & Investigations
Eli Lilly and Company
Jay Holtmeier Partner
WilmerHale
Mason Hubbard
Senior Anti-Corruption Counsel
Gilead Sciences
Brian Kowalski Partner
Latham & Watkins
Angela Main
Senior Vice President, Global Chief Compliance Officer & Associate General Counsel, Asia Pacific
Zimmer Biomet (USA)
Tatiana Martins Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
David Last Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Former Chief, FCPA Unit, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Rebekah Latchis
Global Chief of Staff, Governance and Planning, Office of Ethics and Compliance
Medtronic
Leon C. G. Liu
Partner, Head of Government Enforcement and Investigations
JunHe LLP (China)
Lamia Matta
Global Head of Investigations
3M Healthcare Gina Nese
Vice President, Associate General Counsel Compliance and Privacy Officer
Align Technology Drew Northern
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer Cook Group Inc. and Cook Medical
Rebecca Orttel
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Medtronic
Tracy Palmer Berns
Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance &
Quality Assurance Officer
Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Michael Pacella
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Dentsply Sirona
Mara Senn
Executive Global Compliance Leader
GE Healthcare
Former Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Ericka Watson Founder
Data Strategy Advisors
Sergio Pinto
Senior Director, Regional Sector Lead
Johnson & Johnson
Margaret Price
Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer
Atricure
Maria Villanueva Sessions
Vice President, Compliance Officer
Ra Medical Systems
Dan Spicehandler
Vice President, Compliance - Commercial Divisions
Stryker
Olivia Radin
Partner
King & Spalding LLP
Ryan Rohlfsen Partner
Ropes & Gray LLP
Former Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Gina Salcedo Lannin
Manager, Insights and Analytics
Takeda
Jonathan Stevens Partner
Paul Hastings, LLP
Yuet Tham
Partner
Sidley Austin (Singapore/Hong Kong)
Nicole Willms Partner
Pohlmann & Company (Germany)
Adam Yoffie
Executive Director, Head of C&E Investigations and Integrity Line
Bristol Myers Squibb
Former Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Raquel Zambrano de Leon
Ethics, Risk & Compliance, Innovative Medicines
Head for Canada and Latin America Novartis
Rina Vazirani
Associate General Counsel
& Senior Director
Gilead Sciences
Terri Segura
Vice President, Global Compliance Investigations
Zimmer Biomet
CONFERENCE
MAY 9, 2024
9:45 NEW DOJ/OIG COMPLIANCE BEST PRACTICES
Putting Protocols into Action: Key Differences, Potential Pitfalls, and New Implementation Hurdles
Amid continuing increased DOJ enforcement postures, and newly introduced U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) compliance program guidelines, how are life science multinationals designing compliance program updates to meet both DOJ/OIG expectations? What are the key differences and compliance nuances between these two compliance program guidance measures and what are the critical implementation tips, tools, and roadblocks to look out for?
Hubbard Senior Anti-Corruption Counsel Gilead Sciences
Gwen Chapman Chief Compliance Officer Illumina Inc.
10:45
Extended Networking Break
11:15 CHINA HYPOTHETICALS
The Anti-Corruption Crackdown in China and Nightmare Scenarios: How Companies Are Now Approaching High Stakes, Intensifying Legal and Compliance Risks
Building upon the pre-conference workshop, this interactive, practical session delves select, highly complex issues affecting the life sciences and healthcare sectors in China. Benefit from enhanced benchmarking by using our anonymous polling systems!
• The anti-corruption crackdown in China: How might this campaign negatively impact HCPs and advances in healthcare?
• Critical regional compliance implications for life science companies such as pricing, reimbursement, and market access issues
• Navigating WeChat and WhatsApp communication landmines: Document sharing, data retention
• Data protection and blocking statutes: Balancing these laws with DOJ and SEC expectations for FCPA compliance
• What go-to-market considerations are most important in crafting a winning strategy in response to rapid health reforms taking place in China?
Adam Yoffie
Executive Director, Head of C&E Investigations and Integrity Line
Bristol Myers Squibb
Former Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Susanne M. Hanchar
Associate Vice President –Global Ethics and Compliance, Anti-Corruption & Investigations
Eli Lilly and Company
12:00 Life Science M&A/Joint Ventures: High-Stakes Decision-Making Around DOJ’s Safe Harbor Policy, Due Diligence, Privacy and Post-Transaction Integration
• DOJ's M&A Safe Harbor Policy: Steps to take when you discover FCPA violations
» The benefits and practicalities behind self-disclosure:
Specific requirements as to the timing of disclosure and remediation
Remediation and restitution: Potential criminal exposure at the target company
What constitutes a “reasonableness analysis?”
Misconduct discovered during “bona fide, arms-length M&A transactions”
• Spinoff mergers:
» Assessing the scope of risk relative to whole company acquisitions
» Allocating assets and liabilities between the parties
» Third party and regulatory consents
1:00 Networking Luncheon
Dan Spicehandler Vice President, Compliance- Commercial Divisions Stryker
Natasha Trifun
Executive Director, Head of Compliance, R&D, Global Medical, External Funding and Global Functions
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Joshua Drew
Partner
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
2:15 Leveraging Emerging Technology in Life Sciences Operations: Detecting FCPA Data Triggers and Other Data-Driven Fraud Anomalies with Data Automation, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Incorporating data analytics into your compliance program has instantly changed from a “nice to have” to a “must have” element of your program. This session on data monitoring, data analytics and AI for life sciences will provide you with practical knowledge about outsourcing or implementing your own data analytics platform. Ensure the right questions are being asked of your data to gather the right information to get to the right answers.
• Effective ways to automate, including when your company has multiple, different systems
• Ensuring that data feeds and monitoring tools are working in real time
• Developing processes for determining if an internal investigation is necessary and any additional action
• Identifying which transactions to monitor and how to monitor them, including gifts and donations
• Deciding which pre-approval systems need to be set up before rolling out a monitoring program
• Understand how data analytics interactions affect your risk profile
• Measuring data analytics effectiveness on spotting FCPA data triggers
• Build it or buy it?
• See real-world examples of the impact of data analytics/AI/Machine learning on life sciences compliance
Practical Implications of the U.S. Department of Justice’s M&A
On Oct. 4, 2023, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced a new Department of Justice policy intended to incentivize acquiring companies to voluntarily self-disclose criminal misconduct uncovered during a merger or acquisition. But it comes with a caveat that could have more of a chilling effect on
3:00 Compensation Clawbacks in the Life Sciences Context: The Latest on Resolving
Compliance
Dilemmas, Implementation Challenges and Conflicts with International Employment Law
How should life sciences companies be structuring their employee compensation packages accordingly and better position themselves in the event of a DOJ inquiry or investigation?
• Compensation arrangements for positions that pose higher risks of compliance issues:
» Senior executives
» Sales professionals who interact with HCPs
» Sales professionals who frequently interact with HCPs who are government officials
• Multi-jurisdictional, international clawback implications:
» U.S. jurisdictions: Navigating different definitions and interpretations of what kinds of compensation constitute “wages.”
» Resolving conflicts between U.S. and foreign employment law
• Implementing compensation structures that reward and incentivize compliant behavior
• Integrating compliance efforts into company functions
» Compensation committees
» Employee performance evaluations
» Who will be administering the protocols?
Tatiana Martins Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Christina Hud
Global Investigations Senior Compliance Counsel
Pfizer
Former Acting Chief & Senior Trial Counsel, Health Care Fraud Unit
U.S. Department of Justice
Adam Falkowitz
Head of Legal, North America Getinge
4:00 CASE STUDY
Navigating Discounts Through Distribution Networks
• Pre-deal contract modeling
• Managing complex performance agreements
• Aggregating distributor payments
• Payment reporting, analytics and calculations
• Controls around inflated margins: How to design appropriate discounts for distributors and sub-distributors
Mara Senn
Executive Global Compliance Leader
GE Healthcare
Former Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
4:30 Challenges for Latin America and the Life Sciences Industry: Market Entry Due Diligence for Public/Private Ventures
Topics will include:
• Public versus private doctors and handling their specific FCPA issues
• Mexico
» AMID and regional codes of ethics and transparency with HCPs
• Brazil:
» ABAC and other legal standards that need to be on your radar: Fostering ethics and integrity in the market/society amid public sales law
» Interfarma and ABIMED: Regional codes of ethics
• Colombia:
» Specific laws and requirements: SAGRILAFT and Business Transparency and Ethics Program (PTEE), Colombian legal regulations
» ANDI HCP codes of ethics and transparency
5:30 Close of Day One
Networking Cocktail
Liana Cunha Crespo
Compliance Director, Latin America
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sergio Pinto
Senior Director, Regional Sector Lead Johnson & Johnson
Esther Flesch Partner
Miguel Neto Advogados (Brazil)
CONFERENCE DAY TWO FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2024
8:45 Opening Remarks from the Co-Chairs
Claudius O. Sokenu
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary Avantor
Natasha Trifun
Executive Director, Head of Compliance, R&D, Global Medical, External Funding and Global Functions Alexion Pharmaceuticals
9:00 New International Life Science Anti-Corruption Compliance Considerations: Measuring and Testing Top-Down Effectiveness and Individual/Corporate Transparency of Compliance Controls
Amid increased global enforcement postures and compliance program standards, it is critical that multinational life sciences companies ensure that their programs are pressure-tested (and re-tested) toward mitigating individual/corporate liability risks and strengthening corporate culture.
• Global anticorruption enforcement efforts and comparisons to the FCPA:
» The UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
» EU Anti-Corruption Directive
• The interplay of GDPR with anti-corruption compliance efforts
• Assessing compliance controls in an era of remote and hybrid work
• Where do global anti-corruption efforts intersect with data privacy compliance requirements?
• How to evaluate your training and controls by means other than audits
• Ensuring that your program is aligned on paper and in practice
Ash Aggarwal
Principal, Global Commercial Compliance IQVIA (UK)
Ciara Farrell
Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Global Head of Ethics and Compliance ICON Plc (Ireland)
Nicole Willms Partner Pohlmann & Company (Germany)
Leon C. G. Liu
Partner, Head of Government Enforcement and Investigations JunHe LLP (China)
9:45 Third Party Management: Monitoring Distributors, Sub-Distributors, Sub-Dealers and Sales Agents
The tools required for effective third-party management for life sciences companies continue to change. Added to this is the reality that certain jurisdictions present unique, heightened risks and obstacles to tailoring your program to each specific context. This session will allow candid discussion and life-science-specific benchmarking around third-party risks and evolving compliance and geopolitical realities.
• Updating best practices for a risk-based program tailored to a specific country/region
• Strengthening contractual agreements with distributors and sub-distributors
• When and how much to train distributors and sub-distributors
• Strengthening your due diligence with tier one and tier two distributors and resellers and contractual risk flagging process and procedures
• How to vet distributor past-history around prior accusations, improper affiliations, and the strength of their own compliance programs
• On the ground obstacles to monitoring third party conduct, including distribution and sub-distribution networks
• Knowing how far down the supply chain to go: When to stop
• Concrete examples of addressing resistance to follow-up questions after an initial questionnaire
Michael Pacella
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Dentsply Sirona
Drew Northern
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Cook Group Inc. and Cook Medical
Matt Couillard
Vice President, Product Development
TDI
Jonathan Stevens Partner
Paul Hastings, LLP
10:45 Cross-Border Data Privacy & Cyber Breaches: False Claims Act (FCA) Liability, Cyber Breach Security and China’s New PIPL Measures-and the Interplay with Anti-Corruption
With the vast amounts of data stored on servers and in the cloud, and the ever-increasing sophistication of threat actors, life science organizations must contend with a complex multinational regime of data protection laws. The sheer number of them — and the differences in definitions, standards and exceptions between them — presents a challenge for an organization when a data breach occurs.
• Complying with the GDPR’s breach notification obligations
• US: Navigating a handful of federal laws, including breach notification provisions
• UK Data Protection Act
• Brazil’s data protection regime (LGPD)
• Navigating China’s 2023 update of its Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
• DOJ's Civil Cyber Fraud Initiative: Using the FCA to enforce cyber requirements
• Cyber breach security and prevention, particularly for medical device companies:
» Reviewing remote access protocols
» Segmenting data into different networks
» Understanding ransomware demands and reporting
Gina Nese Vice President, Associate General Counsel Compliance and Privacy Officer Align TechnologyMarcus A. Asner Partner
Arnold & Porter
Ericka Watson Founder
Data Strategy Advisors
Voluntary Disclosures: Understanding “Prompt Reporting”, Cooperation Credit, M&A Safe Harbor, Remediation and When to Engage Outside Counsel
During this highly anticipated session, gain invaluable insights from former DOJ officials, leading private and in-house practitioners on how to update your disclosure calculus in the wake of recent DOJ announcements. Topics will include:
• To disclose or not disclose
• What constitutes “a reasonably prompt time” to disclose?
• The extent of possible cooperation credit-and what is now expected amid recent DOJ policy and guidance updates
David Last Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Former Chief, FCPA Unit, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Daniel Grooms
Partner
Cooley LLP
Former Assistant United States
Attorney and Criminal Chief, U.S. Department of Justice
Claudius O. Sokenu
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary Avantor
Jay Holtmeier
Partner
WilmerHale
Networking Luncheon
1:45 The Grey Areas of G&E, Donations, Sponsorship and Hospitality in High-Risk Markets: What Companies are Now Doing to Strengthen Risk Monitoring Around Compliant HCP Relations
Topics will include:
• When donations can cross the FCPA line
• Responding to scrutiny over improper influence of healthcare providers through travel, gifts, entertainment — particularly in sponsorship of educational meetings and conferences
• When it is appropriate to retain a foreign healthcare provider for advisory services and compensate for their time
• Virtual calls, mobile app meetings and their associated compliance risks, as well as the value of engaging HCPs on the virtual stage
• Using HCPs as social media influencers
• Sending HCPs to industry conferences
• What level of due diligence is now required before outreach to an HCP?
• How companies are operationalizing controls around HCP conflicts of interest
How to Handle Whistleblower Complaints: Best Practices Amid a Spike in FCPA-Related Complaints
• Trends and specific challenges related to FCPA-related whistleblower complaints
• Step-by- action plan for handling the complaint, interviews and litigation risk
• Whistleblowers that continue to bring False Claims Act actions against life sciences companies, particularly those that lack the fundamental controls necessary to comprise adequate healthcare fraud and abuse compliance programs
• Asia Pacific-related whistleblower report trends: Meeting confidentiality obligations and local law requirements
• Whistleblower risks when implementing reductions in the workforce
the Life Sciences Sector
» fostering internal, rather than external, reporting
» encouraging individuals to report centrally, while ensuring that the worker also has the option to report locally
» Retaliation:
retaliations including “psychiatric or medical referrals”
continuing to monitor its relationship with a whistleblower and to keep records of management decisions
How are life sciences companies reviewing ephemeral business communications policies and procedures, as well as emerging privacy, security, and employment law scrutiny?
Don’t miss this critically important session as we discuss:
• The new expectations for retaining business records and correspondence
• Use of emojis as an emerging messaging risk: Corporate malfeasance and cross-cultural complications
• Data privacy issues that can affect compliance with DOJ data retention policies
• How the life sciences industry is updating messaging app policies, procedures, and monitoring
• When to restrict or prohibit the use of messaging apps to company-owned
• The three biggest ephemeral messaging dilemmas for life sciences:
» Mitigating WeChat messaging and document sharing and retention risks when operating in China
» Reviewing data privacy policies and regulations: Ensuring that all business communications can be reviewed in high-risk jurisdictions like China, Latin America, and India
» Implementing internal investigations practices for data localization, collection, and review
• The corruption landscape in key emerging markets, including recent headlines and scandals
• China’s new laws and regulations aimed at both bribe payors and recipients
• India’s slew of legislative and regulatory developments impacting compliance requirements and investigative procedures
• Africa’s anti-corruption enforcement trends and how they are threatened by an uptick in political transitions
• The importance of including key contractual provisions and audit rights and mechanisms
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