Investigations During COVID

As Covid-19 spread across the globe in February and March 2020, investigation teams and in-house compliance professionals had to swiftly adapt to the rapidly changing environment.  When the threat of border closures became a reality, investigation teams were pulled out of countries around the world, in some cases having only just arrived, and a hard brake was applied to most ongoing investigations.  Once the dust settled, the constraints of a pandemic, and especially the contingent ban on global travel, meant that over the intervening eight months, a number of new approaches have been developed within the investigations space.  This article will examine four areas:

• Identification of misconduct;