Compliance, White Collar Crime and Internal Investigations Practice

• KPMG Law team develops strategies for ensuring business compliance with the law.
• We prepare and implement operational action plans necessary to ensure compliance.

• KPMG lawyers examine the entirety of the regulations, organisational arrangements and tools implemented in an organisation to ensure its compliance with the law.
• We address potential compliance risks and violations within the company. 
• We analyse the existing compliance management practice in the organisation.

• KPMG Law’s services cover detection of fraud and internal investigations.
• We then identify economic crimes and abuses in the organisation.
• The knowledge gained allows us to eliminate dishonest employees and contractors from the organisation, recover lost property, improve the organisation's operations, as well as take adequate preventive actions.

Current legislation requires businesses to have procedures in place to report violations of the law anonymously and to protect whistleblowers. We help clients create such procedures. 

KPMG Law’s support covers:

• Risk analysis and assessment - legal advice to companies, board members and supervisory boards on risk assessment and preventive and counter-economic crime measures
• Internal regulations and training for crisis situations (dawn raids), such as searches, seizures of persons and property, control activities
• Professional support for crisis situations (dawn raids) such as searches, seizures of persons and things, control activities
• Representation of victims and auxiliary accusers in pre-trial proceedings and before courts of first and second instance and the Supreme Court
• Defense of suspects and defendants in pre-trial proceedings and before courts of first and second instance and the Supreme Court
• Claiming damages and compensation in criminal proceedings
• Recovery in criminal proceedings of property lost as a result of a criminal offence
• Defense of companies in collective entity liability cases

KPMG Law’s services include:

• Risk analysis and assessment – legal advice to companies, board members and supervisory boards on risk assessment and preventive and anti-crime measures
• Internal regulations and training for crisis situations (dawn raids) such as searches, seizures of persons and property and control activities
• Professional support for crisis situations (dawn raids) such as searches, seizures of persons and things and control activities
• Defense of suspects and defendants in pre-trial proceedings and before courts of first and second instance and before the Supreme Court
• Defense of companies in cases of joint and several liability in fiscal criminal proceedings

Liability of a collective entity leads to material losses of great value. Collective liability proceedings carry the risk of loss of reputation, clients, orders and high financial penalties of up to PLN 5 million, as well as the risk of a ban on promoting or advertising the business conducted, products manufactured or sold, services rendered or benefits provided. It can also mean a ban on receiving grants, subsidies or other forms of financial support from public funds, a ban on receiving assistance from international organisations of which the Republic of Poland is a member and a ban on competing for public contracts.

KPMG Law's support includes:

• Risk analysis and assessment – legal advice to companies, management and board members on risk assessment and crime prevention and counteraction.
• Internal regulations and training on the protection of company assets and crime prevention.
• Securing lost property in criminal proceedings.
• Representation in pre-trial proceedings and before courts of first and second instance and the Supreme Court.
• Successful recovery in criminal proceedings of property lost as a result of a criminal offence.