External General Counsel & Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption Consultants
Streamline your Governance and find solutions
External General Counsel & Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption Consultants
Streamline your Governance and find solutions
Our Values
Our Mission
Ethics - our work is driven by our ethical practice.
Who We Are
Rachel Corder is the founder of CMC. She has years of experience both in legal and ABAC compliance working as General Counsel globally. She has received the GCC Powerlist award twice and is a Board Director.
Pragmatic and business oriented our solutions makes your business compliant and successful
Get Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption Certification
Is your company at risk of failing to win bids or contracts because your Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption (ABAC) programs doesn't exist or lacks fundamental elements?
At CMC we provide ABAC Certification which is an online or in-person structured assessment and validation of whether your ABAC framework meets FCPA and UK Bribery Act standards and regional standards where your company/ies is based.
It includes an optional review of Data Privacy governance and Sanction governance.
We have deep experience in emerging markets and are focused on GCC and Southeast Asia, where the often the big consultants are not aware of local differences and risks.
In practice, our clients use ABAC certification to:
*Win and maintain government and quasi-government contracts
*Satisfy multinational onboarding requirements
*Strengthen transaction readiness (M&A, investment)
*Provide assurance to boards and audit committees
*Address issues before they become investigations
Contact us now for a discussion and a quote.
Our Services
LEGAL SERVICES (NON-UAE)
Company Governance, Templates & Compliance Frameworks
Supply of governance frameworks, contractual templates and core documentation, including:
- Codes of conduct
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Internal policies and approval matrices
- Supporting contractual documentation (including employment contracts and service agreements)
General Counsel-Level Legal Advisory
- Contracting, transactions and M&A support
- Dispute management and risk mitigation strategies
- Legal support for market entry and expansion
Sanctions & Cross-Border Risk Advisory
- Sanctions and trade compliance advice
- Risk analysis for cross-border transactions and operations
- Structuring to mitigate jurisdictional exposure
- Integration of sanctions controls into governance frameworks
ABAC COMPLIANCE SUPPORT
Compliance Certification
Review of existing compliance programmes and remediation where required, including:
- Assessment against FCPA and UK Bribery Act standards
- Implementation of enhancements where necessary
- Provision of certification confirming the existence of a compliant ABAC programme
Third-Party Risk & Due Diligence
- Third-party due diligence programmes (distributors, agents, JV partners)
- Interpretation of diligence results, particularly where GCC structures differ from multinational expectations
- Risk assessment and tiering methodologies
- Support in responding to due diligence requests and provision of ABAC certifications
- Analysis of GCC-specific ownership structures, including government linkages
- Design & Implementation of end-to-end third-party risk systems (onboarding through to monitoring)
ABAC Audits
- In-person audits and site inspections across UAE/GCC
- Control testing and compliance gap assessments
- Production of defensible audit reports
- Ongoing third-party monitoring programmes
Compliance Investigations & Remediation
- Internal and external compliance investigations
- Third-party misconduct and corruption risk reviews
- Root cause analysis and CAPA based remediation programmes
- Board and audit committee reporting
- Crisis and regulatory response support
Healthcare-Specific Compliance & Regulatory Structures
- Design of healthcare-specific compliance frameworks
- Promotional review and approval processes
- Governance of interactions with healthcare professionals and government stakeholders
- Alignment with global and local regulatory expectations
TRAINING & CAPABILITY BUILDING
- Legal, ABAC and compliance training programmes (board and operational level)
- Workshops tailored to sector and jurisdictional risks eg: Bribery with third party suppliers
- Delivery of executive-level training for ABAC compliance
- Legal terms and how to write contracts
- Project management of contracts
- Intellectual Property
- Negotiation of Contracts
- Soft Skills: Coaching senior staff and teams to improve practical legal and compliance capability and communications.