About Risk & Compliance
Lexis+ Risk & Compliance is an online practical guidance product for in-house legal and compliance teams dealing with the ever-increasing and ever-shifting burden of risk and compliance.
Risk management guides
Each guide identifies five key priorities for the area of risk, and gives a heads-up on why each is a priority area. The priority is explained in further detail, with a series of mini-checklists and action points.
Competition & antitrust law compliance
Having a clear understanding of the nature of competition law compliance and the associated risks/challenges for businesses is the first step to setting effective compliance arrangements. We help organisations with this.
GDPR compliance
Practical guidance tools, registers, training aids and other templates to help you comply with data protection law and manage privacy risks
Regulation
Helping in-house counsel, privacy and compliance professionals manage the regulatory burden. GDPR, BA, MLR and plenty more, we've got it covered.
Topics We Cover
Latest Risk & Compliance News
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published Guidelines 01/2025 on Pseudonymisation for public consultation. The guidelines clarify the...
Law360, London: On 7 January 2025, the UK Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) published two new guidance documents focusing on no-Russia...
Law360: As we ring in the year 2025, the landscape of corporate ethics and compliance is rapidly evolving, driven by societal changes, technological...
This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest financial sanctions, the opening of a consultation on new legislative...
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has published its response to the consultation on proposed changes to the data protection...
Latest Risk & Compliance Practice Notes
International official financial sanctions listsThis Practice Note contains a table of international financial sanctions lists with links to the...
International sanctions—an introductionWhat are sanctions?Sanctions are non-permanent restrictions or prohibitions imposed by governments that...
How to deal with the FCAThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is a UK financial regulatory body established by Act of Parliament in 2013. It operates...
Conflict in Ukraine—UK sanctions tracker [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and is no longer maintained.This tracker aims to assist...
The risks of cryptoassets from a financial crime, money laundering and terrorist financing perspective [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note...
Latest Risk & Compliance Precedents
Fraud panic sheet1Preliminary screening1.1GuidanceIt is important that certain types of fraud are reported and managed, eg money laundering suspicions...
Fraud risk assessment1Introduction1.1We have conducted an organisation-wide assessment of fraud, covering:1.1.1the risk of failing to prevent fraud...
Anti-bribery and corruption—staff survey on effectiveness of controlsThis survey is designed to measure knowledge and understanding of our...
Annual anti-bribery and corruption report to the Board1General informationDate of this report[Insert date]Date of last report[Insert date]Name and...
Business continuity plan—BCP1IntroductionIt is our policy to ensure that if our business is interrupted, we can become fully operational as quickly as...
Latest Risk & Compliance Q&As
Featured Risk & Compliance content
How to manage legal risk
How to manage legal riskIt is often said that running a business means taking risks and that the biggest risk an entrepreneur can take is not to think...
Can a limited company make a subject access request? Can a director of a limited company ask for recordings of calls with us? If yes, what personal data must we provide?
Can I charge a fee for dealing with a data subject access request?
Tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation
Tipping-off and prejudicing an investigationThere are several offences of tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation that apply to the regulated...
Dawn raid—who can raid my organisation and why?
Dawn raid—who can raid my organisation and why?The UK Government has legislated to permit a number of UK authorities to obtain search warrants to...
Contract management risk management guide
Contract management risk management guideWhy you need to manage this riskContract management is often seen by the business as an activity which is...
Confidentiality risk management guide
Confidentiality risk management guideWhy you need to manage this riskConfidential information is one of the most valuable assets of any business....
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—simplified due diligence
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—simplified due diligenceYou may apply simplified customer due diligence (SDD) measures in relation to particular...
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs—for in-house lawyers
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs—for in-house lawyersThis Practice Note provides guidance for in-house solicitors on the SRA Code of...
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017—key information for businesses
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017—key information for businessesThe Money...
Dealing with the National Crime Agency
Dealing with the National Crime AgencyThis Practice Note provides high-level guidance on dealing with the National Crime Agency. It sets out the role,...
Public statement on data breach
Public statement on data breachStatement by [insert name of organisation] concerning a significant [cyber attack OR data protection breach] on [insert...
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—nominated officer
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—nominated officerThis Practice Note sets out when organisations must appoint a nominated officer (sometimes referred...
Dealing with the Serious Fraud Office
Dealing with the Serious Fraud OfficeSFO—role and powersRoleThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is the authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
How to conduct a legitimate interest assessment (LIA)
How to conduct a legitimate interest assessment (LIA)The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) permits processing of personal data where...
Refusing a data subject request—what is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’?
If a multinational company with entities in a number of EU states has registered a data protection officer (DPO) with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), does it need to register a DPO in the other EU states where it has entities or is registration in one country sufficient?
Dealing with dawn raids by the Information Commissioner’s Office
Dealing with dawn raids by the Information Commissioner’s OfficeThis document reflects the UK GDPR regime. References and links to the GDPR refer to...
Associated legal terms
Covenant loose
Covenant loose typically refers to a facility agreement where the financial covenant position has been materially weakened from the traditional position of four maintenance covenants (leveraged ratio, cashflow ratio, interest cover ratio and limits on capital expenditure) with limited headroom and quarterly testing (eg by the removal of one or more covenants, by increasing the headroom or by reducing the frequency of testing).
Earnings per share
A common way of expressing company profits – dividing the profits after tax by the number of shares in issue. Earnings per share is the basis for the calculation of the P/E ratio.
Section 21 notice
A notice pursuant to section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 (HA 1988) which is served to determine an assured shorthold tenancy.
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