Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. In your inbox this week: Kevin'Connor, the chief legal officer at Carrier Corp., gives some advice for how companies can get "creative" with compliance. Plus: Bain & Co. lawyers up with McDermott, Will & Emery as the Justice Department demands documents from the consulting firm. And the Commodity Futures Trading Commission opens a clearer path for cooperation credit.

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