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Received: 2018-06-20  |  Accepted: 2018-11-25  |  Published: 2019-03-30

Title

Content of a Intra Group Compliance Agreement as a risk mitigating factor


Abstract

The contribution deals with the topic of relationship between the mother company and the daughter company, specifically how to set up, control and verify the compliance rules in the daughters company acc the standards important for the mother company. Current legal and managerial environment require to implement the same lavel as applied by the mother company not only to protect its shares in the subsidiaries but more likely to create a shelter and mitigate possible risk for the conduct of its subsidiary in its country, culture and environment. The contribution shows the possibility to implement the compliance rules and the compliance manangemtn systemof the mother company in the daughter company through the so-called intragroup agreement as a frame to set up a correct control, reporting, consequence management in the daughter company. It also draws a line how the compliance should be taken in the subsidiary in relation to the position of created compliance office, that needs to be stablished and manged in the separate line stream form the line management to ensure its independence. The authors show the relevance of this model also by particular decision of the legal practice, mainly quoting plea bargaining of the accused legal persons from corruption or moneylaundering conducts.


Keywords

compliance, effectiveness, criminal responsibility, post-acquisition, SPV, sanctions, vulnerability, mother-company, daughter-company, intra group relations.


JEL classifications

M14 , M16


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/279


DOI


Pages

1195-1204


Funding

This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-15-0267

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Kordík, Marek
Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://uniba.sk
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Kurilovská, Lucia
Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://uniba.sk
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

6


Number

3


Issue date

March 2019


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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