Trubshaw Cumberlege Director Sean Cumberlege Presents to the 62nd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute
September 23, 2016
Trubshaw Cumberlege is proud to announce that Sean Cumberlege, a Director at Trubshaw Cumberlege, recently returned from presenting at the 62nd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Squaw Valley, California. Along with his co-author Dimitri Seletsky, Supervising Counsel, Global Legal Services & Support, Chevron Upstream, Sean presented on a paper entitled: Implementing Integrity: the Business Case for an Ethical Supply Chain and a Toolkit for Tempering the Links.
The paper was published in the 62nd ANNUAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS hardbound volume
A summary of the paper and presentation can be found below:
Companies active in the development of natural resources devote considerable effort and funds to assuring that they conduct their business ethically as well as legally, consistent with the principles of sustainable development. Companies adopt internal policies and controls, and announce their principles and aspirations to the world. Often, the companies make similar contractual commitments intended to implement their principles in production sharing contracts, mine development agreements, community development agreements, and the like. All of a company’s efforts and good intentions can be for naught, however, if its contractors, the suppliers and service companies engaged by the resource development company, have not adopted the same standards and incorporated them into their business practices for delivering goods or services. This presentation will examine project data from around the world demonstrating that there is a business case for assuring that a company’s external supply chain is operating ethically and with integrity in alignment with, and under the leadership of, the company itself. The speakers will discuss a data-driven approach to identifying and managing supply chain risks, and will provide strategies that may be incorporated into a company’s contracting process to assure that the company’s projects and operations are pursued in a manner consistent with its principles, policies, and promises.