Compliance services

We help our clients design, build, implement and run comprehensive, yet pragmatic, compliance programmes to help them better manage their often potentially severe legal and regulatory risk exposures.

Sometimes viewed as the organisation’s ‘police force’, as well as a necessary evil or a ‘tick-box’ exercise, we are passionate about helping compliance professionals overcome organisational resistance to, and unfair perception of, their Functions and roles. By contextualising the organisation's strategic goals and operations first and, where possible, working in alignment with existing processes and cultural nuances, rather than against them, we can help you tailor and embed the necessary compliance programme requirements into business as usual activities, helping to drive improved stakeholder engagement, visibility of benefits / value of compliance and, ultimately, the sustainability and effectiveness of the system.

MERC & CO experts leverage their significant experience in establishing and running group Compliance functions which coordinate compliance efforts enterprise-wide, combined with a deep knowledge of specific laws and regulations, such as anti-bribery and corruption, sustainability standards etc., as well as decades of compliance experience in industries including, for example, Life Sciences, Extractives, Broadcast Media etc.