Course Description
Extractive industries carry structurally elevated corruption risk: licences and concessions granted by officials, operations in high-risk jurisdictions, reliance on local agents and intermediaries, community payments, customs and permitting. The FCPA and UK Bribery Act reach across borders, and enforcement against mining and energy companies has been consistent and expensive.
This course develops practical anti-bribery and corruption capability for extractive companies. Participants learn the major legal frameworks and their extraterritorial reach, the specific corruption typologies of mining and energy, third-party and intermediary risk, facilitation payments and hospitality, due diligence on agents and joint venture partners, and how to build an ABC programme that functions in genuinely difficult jurisdictions.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the FCPA, UK Bribery Act and major ABC frameworks
- Understand extraterritorial reach and jurisdiction
- Recognise corruption typologies specific to extractive industries
- Assess third-party, agent and intermediary risk
- Handle facilitation payments, gifts and hospitality
- Conduct due diligence on agents and JV partners
- Manage community payments and social investment risk
- Build and test an ABC compliance programme
How the course is delivered
The course combines ABC legal frameworks with the operational reality of extractive industries in high-risk jurisdictions. Participants work through agent due diligence, red flag analysis and scenario decisions using realistic mining and energy cases.
The programme addresses the practical dilemmas of operating where corruption risk is structural, rather than treating compliance as a paperwork exercise.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Compliance and legal professionals in mining and energy
- Business development and country managers
- Procurement and contracting staff
- Internal audit and risk professionals
- Executives operating in high-risk jurisdictions
Daily programme
- Bribery and corruption in extractive industries
- The FCPA
- The UK Bribery Act and other frameworks
- Extraterritorial reach and jurisdiction
- Corruption typologies: licences, permits, customs
- Third-party and intermediary risk
- Agents, consultants and lobbyists
- Joint venture and partner risk
- Facilitation payments
- Gifts, hospitality and travel
- Community payments and social investment
- Local content and employment pressure
- Building an ABC programme
- Third-party due diligence in practice
- Monitoring, audit and testing
- Investigations, case study workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
