Exporting Compliance – Conducting Compliance Investigations Across Latin America

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities and risks of conducting business in Latin America, emphasizing the need for compliance investigations and risk management strategies.

The world is a turbulent place in 2025 and doing business outside of the U.S. means needing to understand and to be able to react to a dynamic and evolving risk environment. The many countries and amazing people comprising Latin America are an important customer base and trading partner for most global organizations. Many global businesses have significant operations in the region and despite the turbulence, the region is full of opportunity. Drug cartels, transnational crime groups and gang violence, corrupt public officials, unstable governments, and professional kidnap for ransom operations are just a handful of the challenges that face global organizations operating in Latin America. To take advantage of the bountiful opportunities across the region, organizations need to be able to proactively identify, manage and mitigate these and other operational risks. It starts with knowing who you are doing business with, their reputations, prior conduct and whether their political connections are a help or a significant hindrance. Likewise, it is equally important to be able to deploy international counsel and their partners to triage crises, investigate negative events, stabilize…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Moritz

Topics covered

• compliance investigations
• Latin America
• risk management
• global business
• operational risks
• crisis management

Keywords

• compliance
• investigations
• Latin America
• business risks
• global operations
• crisis management
• drug cartels
• transnational crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S., Drug cartels, transnational crime groups, gang violence, corrupt public officials, unstable governments, professional kidnap for ransom operations

Places: Latin America

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