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The Mississippi Company – when things get too complicated

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 | JD SUPRA

Includes “… Law did get the French economy moving, but along the way, he also helped create one of history’s most famous, and least understood, financial bubbles: the Mississippi bubble. … If your own company policies, procedures, controls and personnel cannot determine how business is transacted in your organization, you run the risk of a legal violation such as the FCPA or something similar to the fall of the Mississippi Company and John Law, who was forced to flee France disguised as a woman.”

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