Matteson Ellis will present "Challenges and Changes Generated by the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Latin America," ("Retos y Cambios Generados por La Convención Anti-Cochecho de la OCDE en Latinoamérica") at the 20 Years of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Latin American Perspectives event in Bogotá, Colombia on February 13, 2018. The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, and the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, Kevin Whitaker, will deliver opening remarks at the event.

Ellis and his co-panelists, Drago Kos, Chair, OECD Working Group on Bribery; Leah Ambler, Anti-Corruption Division, OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs; and Tatiana Petry, General Coordinator, Agreements and International Cooperation, Ministry of Transparency and Comptroller-General of the Union, will discuss how the convention has changed the legal program of the region in the last 20 years, challenges in implementing these laws and the convention in general, and how the private sector and law firms view the changes and regulatory developments of the past 20 years.