Corporate Liability & Risk Management

ZUL RAFIQUE & partners’ offers a team of lawyers to assist organisations to prepare for the implementation of Section 17A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act 2009, which has come into force on 1 June 2020. Section 17A imposes a corporate liability on organisations, who may now be held accountable for the corrupt offences committed by their employees or any persons deemed associated with the organisations.

We recognise that the existing anti-corruption policies of our clients may not have been sufficiently constructed to satisfy the new adequacy tests required as a defence to Section 17A. Hence, we aim to provide advice and assistance to our clients in their efforts to establish adequate procedures in the form of, amongst others, policies and procedures designed to withstand scrutiny in the event of any incident of corruption.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

The focus of our services will be on legal risk assessment & drafting of policies. Depending on the individual needs of our client, our scope of service in this domain will potentially include:

• the conduct of a legal risk assessment exercise. In this step we will work closely with the management of organisations to identify particular areas within its business and operations that are exposed to the risk of corrupt acts by its persons associated and the corresponding levels of risk;
• a review of the existing anti-corruption policies and procedures of the organisation as part of a gap analysis exercise to determine its preparedness for the implementation of the new anti-corruption laws, as well as to the adequacy of such policies and procedures as a defence against the new corporate liability laws;
• the drafting of anti-corruption and whistleblowing policies and procedures; and
• conduct of training and awareness sessions

Partners

• Farah Mohamed Said

  +603-6209 8247
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• Hamdi Abdullah

  +603-6209 8215
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Idza Hajar Ahmad Idzam

+603-6209 8281
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