There Must Be Fifty Ways To Leave Your Agent

Happy Thanksgiving! As anyone who saw our Halloween International Trade Updateis aware, we are all in favor of alternative ways to get out our international regulatory compliance message. So, who better to aid in our holiday-themed compliance quest than two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, sixteen-Grammy-Award winning songwriter Paul Simon, who actually spent a semester in law school before deciding — for some reason — that he might be more successful as a song-writer and recording artist.

Unfortunately, Mr. Simon never chose to merge his two interests, thereby missing a golden opportunity to remind the world in the catchiest possible way that monitoring and auditing third parties for anticorruption concerns is a time-honored way of mitigating FCPA risks: