Dentons’ Whistleblowing Line, forms part of Dentons’ Whistleblowing Suite of Solutions. These are designed to provide your company with an all-inclusive legal offering paired with a hotline and web intake platform. Whistleblowing hotlines help create the desired ethical corporate culture that you need. They are pivotal to building employee’s trust and releasing the pressure off your internal teams who need to manage the hotline. The overall impact can increase operating benefits and decrease risks.

As the EU Whistleblowing Directive is implemented in each EU member state, we consider that the need for a reporting channel, goes beyond law. It is an essential element of a robust Compliance Management System, and one that is known and trusted is one that allows and facilitates the reporting of misconduct. In fact, a hotline is the centerpiece of a whistleblowing system and not just any whistleblowing system will do the trick. Merely creating a new email address that employees and others can use to raise concerns will not create the confidence that whistleblowers need to report, and will not be perceived positively by enforcement agencies.

This is why Dentons’ Whistleblowing Line combines our legal advice you have come to trust, with the leading whistleblowing reporting platform SpeakUp®, powered by People Intouch, a Dutch business established in Europe over 15 years ago. What makes it different is that Dentons’ combined offer is comprehensive yet adaptable to your business needs (be it team size, locations, languages and budget) and takes into account your unique coverage. Further to this, it helps cover all bases. It considers ISO standard 37002 for whistleblowing, contradictory national laws, and the higher expectations of regulators that Dentons benefit from having deeper insight into via our US and UK offices.

We are ready to help you consider if you need to set up or upgrade your whistleblowing system to meet all legal requirements of the jurisdictions in which you operate, taking into account local cultural nuances. Our Compliance team has a proven track record of implementing and managing whistleblowing hotlines (from receiving the complaint, through the investigation and up until the closure of the case).

Recognition

Dentons recognized as a leading law firm for investigations in the 2021 GIR 100 ranking

November 11, 2021

Dentons has been recognized as a leading global law firm for corporate investigations in the GIR 100 2021 ranking, published by Global Investigations Review, for the second year running.

Insights

Whistleblowing: Italy implements the European Whistleblowing Directive (in Italian)

April 21, 2023

Italy: On 15 March 2023, Italy transposed the EU Whistleblowing Directive into law (as Legislative Decree 10 March 2023, n. 24). It sets out specific obligations for businesses to implement a whistleblowing process and as well specific sanctions in the event of a breach of the relevant obligations.

Whistleblowing: what is changing for companies (in Italian)

April 20, 2023

Italy has recently implemented the EU Whistleblower Directive, regulating the use of channels to report unlawful conduct. Italy has clarified some of the requirements imposed by this directive, although certain aspects are yet to be elucidated by the Italian authorities. In any event, it is clear that the new requirements for companies are legion: they will need to harmonize their whistleblowing channel already in place according to the 231 model with the new obligations; they must ensure that their privacy governance includes the new requirements and that they have the appropriate security measures in place. Check out our top five must-haves that companies need to be aware of!

Whistleblowers – a new proposal in Poland

April 25, 2022

Poland: On 12 April 2022, the Ministry of Family and Social Policy published a new draft law on the protection of whistleblowers, in which the authors partially addressed the demands made in the procedure of agreement and public consultation.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons recognized as a leading law firm for investigations in the 2021 GIR 100 ranking

November 11, 2021

Dentons has been recognized as a leading global law firm for corporate investigations in the GIR 100 2021 ranking, published by Global Investigations Review, for the second year running.

Judith Aron recognized among remarkable women in GIR’s Women in Investigations

May 19, 2021

Judith Aron, Co-head of Dentons’ Europe Compliance Group, has been recognized as one of the world’s top 100 women lawyers in the field of compliance and investigations in GIR’s Women in Investigations 2021.

Dentons and People Intouch collaborate on a new Whistleblowing Line offering for clients

January 29, 2021

Global law firm Dentons has teamed up with People Intouch to deliver an all-inclusive service to help clients implement internal whistleblowing systems in compliance with relevant legislation. The innovative offering will combine Dentons’ legal knowledge with People Intouch’s SpeakUp^® web and phone communication platform to provide companies of all sizes with an integrated, comprehensive solution.

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