Control Risks has just launched its annual RiskMap report, outlining five considerations for legal teams and compliance officers in the year to come.
As we move into 2021, legal and compliance teams – like the companies they work for – undoubtedly face challenges. In a new and evolving world, companies will go full throttle on financial recovery and growth, hoping to avoid becoming one the pandemic’s corporate casualties. At the same time, legal teams and compliance officers must ensure the crucial issues they oversee retain prominence when so much focus at senior levels will be on the balance sheet. This is undoubtedly going to be tough. Especially when the issues are more complex, the expectations broader, the timeframes shorter and the stakes higher, but, in many cases, the budgets smaller.