EU/UK: 2025 Anti-Corruption Year in Review

EU/UK: 2025 Anti-Corruption Year in Review

Wednesday, 4 February 2026 | 10:00 AM EST (3:00 PM GMT)

Hear from an expert team of legal advisors from Addleshaw Goddard, TRACE’s UK partner firm, as they provide an update on anti-corruption enforcement and regulatory trends in the EU and UK. Providing a top level overview of activity over the past year while highlighting new and emerging risks, the panel will address enforcement trends taking shape in key EU/UK countries including England, Germany and France, share an update on activity undertaken by the newly-formed UK, France, and Swiss taskforce and discuss how the shift in approach to anti-corruption enforcement in the US is impacting the same Europe. The panel will also discuss tips for ensuring your compliance program properly addresses points for exposure under the ECCTA as well as key shifts in European Commission regulations/directives to keep an eye on. Come prepared with your most pressing questions for this expert panel!

 


 

*CLE credits are available for this webinar in the following states only – TX, VA, NY, NJ, CA. Additional instructions on how to obtain CLE credits will be provided during the webinar.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Michelle de Kluyver

Partner, Head of Global Investigations
Addleshaw Goddard

Michelle de Kluyver is a partner in the Global Investigations team at Addleshaw Goddard. Michelle is recognized as one of the UK’s leading specialists in corporate crime investigations and financial crime compliance. Michelle has particular experience in advising clients on bribery and corruption, money laundering and economic sanctions, as well as related governance and compliance issues. Clients describe Michelle as “a stand-out partner: thoughtful, clever and strategic” and she is ranked as a leading individual advising clients on International Sanctions.

David Père

Partner, Global Investigations/Inquiries and Compliance
Addleshaw Goddard

In white-collar crime, David handles complex, high-risk cases. He represents companies and executives in investigations involving offenses such as money laundering, corruption, misuse of corporate assets, and tax fraud. He is praised by clients for his strong availability and extensive crisis management experience. He was among the first in France to prepare executives for police interviews through realistic, scenario-based training sessions.

 

David also assists companies in implementing anti-corruption procedures, conducting internal investigations and acted as an external expert for the French Anti-Corruption Agency.

Harriet Territt

Partner, Global Investigations
Addleshaw Goddard

Harriet has significant experience advising on corporate criminal and financial regulation, including money laundering and sanctions legislation, supply chain compliance, trade and export control and foreign investment issues. She undertakes highly confidential internal investigations and remediation projects, as well as representing clients before regulators and enforcement agencies such as the Financial Conduct Authority and the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. Increasingly, Harriet works with clients who want to future proof compliance systems, providing boards and senior management with clear visibility and assurance around levels of regulatory risk.

 

Harriet is passionate about the power of emerging technologies to change our world for the better, with particular experience in liability, risk, and governance issues arising out of the cutting edge of fintech and digital assets, including DLT (distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain), AI implementations, payments, cryptoassets, digital currencies, alternative finance arrangements, and consumer facing products.

Jörg Bielefeld

Partner, White-Collar Crimes and Compliance
Addleshaw Goddard

Jörg’s area of expertise comprises the whole field of white collar and tax crime, compliance consulting and criminal defence. Since 2003, he advises corporations on the detection and prosecution of internal irregularities (Corporate Investigation), on investigations performed by law enforcement and regulatory authorities (Corporate Defence) and on prevention (Corporate Prevention & Criminal Compliance). Jörg Bielefeld further defends individuals in the whole area of white collar criminal law and tax crime. He is particularly specialised in advising companies on criminal and administrative offences with the early defence against impending sanctions, having another focus on providing advice in complex compliance cases, both in an international and national context. 

 

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