Amicus Legal Consultants

Set up in 2008 by 2 senior barristers and former prosecutors, Martin Polaine & Arvinder Sambei. Its work is divided into 3 principal strands: 1 Legal 2 Crisis Preparedness & Management /Critical Incident Debriefing 3 Capacity Building Legal: Business and economic crime, regulatory, UK Bribery Act, US FCPA, AML /CFT, sanctions, CT, human rights, public international law & international arbitration. Crisis Preparedness /Critical Incident Debriefing: aimed at all decision makers (public & private sector), boards, managers /directors, compliance officers, CMTs and lawyers. Amicus uses its Solve methods to: •Stress-test and examine existing policies and procedures e. g. anti-bribery and anti-fraud, compliance, communication, HR and organisational changes;•Deliver targeted exercises on decision-making, team co-ordination, communication, risk, governance & leadership;•Help create new policies & procedures;•Manage risk & reputation;•Identify training needs; •Train professionals (public & private sector) on substantive law; •Plan & review internal investigations; •Pre /debrief critical incidents and the decision-making involved;•Support monitoring under Bribery Act /FCPA. Solve: Immersive: fully facilitated multi-media exercises that create challenging and highly realistic scenarios to ‘test and trial' decisions, procedures and policies in a safe environment. Solve: Interactive: powerful, anonymised de-briefing method used to review incidents candidly, examine sensitive issues and plan effectively for future events. Capacity building: gap analyses, country assessments, writing practitioner manuals, treaty & legislative drafting, and immersive training for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, defence and judges. Topics include: anti-corruption /bribery, economic crimes, counterterrorism, financial intelligence & investigations, AML /CFT, sanctions, asset recovery, international co-operation, IHL /ICL and special investigative means.
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Employee Count: 5
Keywords: legal services