Compliance Isn’t Just a Policy—It’s Protection

Global success brings more than growth. It brings scrutiny. Complication. Exposure. Suddenly, your operations are visible across jurisdictions. Your partners are subject to laws you’ve never had to consider. And your name is now subject to standards far beyond the boardroom.

At Potter & Co., we help clients navigate that pressure.

We provide international compliance and anti-corruption advisory services for companies and executives who understand that regulatory failure isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a threat. To their operations. To their reputation. And sometimes, to their freedom.

Our clients operate in highly scrutinized sectors—finance, defense, energy, tech, real estate, healthcare, and government contracting. They lead multinationals, private funds, NGOs, and family offices. What they have in common is this: they move across borders. And they cannot afford to get caught in legal or ethical crossfire.

Whether you’re facing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act, local anti-kickback laws, new EU whistleblower protections, or vague but aggressive foreign enforcement regimes—we help you see the terrain clearly and act decisively.

Compliance isn’t about checking boxes. It’s about protecting leverage.

It’s about maintaining operational trust, board confidence, investor clarity, and government tolerance. It’s about knowing which relationships are permissible and which ones raise red flags you won’t see until it’s too late.

We advise clients from the inside out.

We assess your exposure—legal, cultural, operational. We audit relationships that appear clean on paper but raise strategic risk. We review internal messaging, field conduct, local vendor chains, and philanthropic partnerships that may inadvertently cross the line.

We don’t just look at what you’re doing. We assess how it would be perceived by prosecutors, regulators, media, competitors, and hostile political actors.

Because in international business, perception is as dangerous as wrongdoing.

Our advisory work integrates with your legal counsel and internal compliance teams. We aren’t outsiders with idealistic policies. We’re advisors who understand the commercial pressure, the ambiguity, the local expectations, and the political undercurrents that shape behavior in tough markets.

We know how compliance gets tested on the ground—when you're expanding into a state-controlled sector, bidding on government contracts, hiring local agents, or negotiating with regulators who play by a different rulebook.

That’s why we’re involved early.

Before the deal. Before the expansion. Before the donation. Before the hire. That’s when we design structures that allow you to move forward with confidence—and without back-end exposure.

We also come in after the problem has started.

A whistleblower raises concerns. A leaked document sparks a media investigation. A foreign regulator starts asking questions. A government contract gets quietly pulled. That’s when our crisis-compliance model takes over.

We assess what was done, what’s visible, what’s defensible, and what needs to change—immediately. We engage stakeholders, review audit trails, manage communications, and work alongside legal to ensure that the response is controlled, strategic, and legally sound.

We’ve advised clients on internal corruption probes. Improper gifts and hospitality. Payments routed through local agents. Phantom vendors. Hidden equity stakes held by politically exposed persons. Every case is different. Every jurisdiction adds complexity. And every moment is sensitive.

We move quickly and quietly.

What separates Potter & Co. is how we do this work.

We don’t panic. We don’t grandstand. We don’t publish white papers about integrity while your legal department is trying to keep you out of court. We come in, assess reality, align with counsel, and deliver solutions that work in the real world.

We’ve worked in markets where paying the wrong customs officer can delay your supply chain by months. Where ignoring a “donation request” can end your access to local approvals. Where the best local candidate comes with a politically entangled last name.

We don’t pretend these challenges aren’t real.

We help clients meet them with discipline, strategy, and built-in insulation.

Sometimes that means creating layered decision trees. Sometimes that means building buffer structures that maintain compliance while respecting local expectations. Sometimes that means saying no—and protecting you from the fallout of that decision before it even lands.

We also guide boards through sensitive conversations.

We prepare executive teams for regulatory meetings. We prepare talking points that walk the line between transparency and protection. We prepare transition plans when a compliance breach requires leadership accountability. And we do it all with absolute confidentiality and professionalism.

For organizations operating globally, integrity can’t be assumed. It must be demonstrated—actively, intentionally, and consistently. Not for PR. But for survival.

We help clients create internal systems that detect risk early. Anonymous reporting structures. Digital behavior monitoring. Field-level training that actually prepares teams for the real dilemmas they’ll face—not just what’s written in the handbook.

And when a regulator comes knocking—or worse, a journalist—we make sure your house is in order, your answers are prepared, and your story is defensible.

Because once you’re under review, it’s too late to get ready.

If your organization is expanding globally, taking foreign investment, hiring third-party agents, or operating in sectors known for corruption pressure—this isn’t optional.

You need us now.

Not because something went wrong.

But because you’re smart enough to know it might.