Government Contracting – May 23, 2012

by Richard Kimber on 8/10/2011

The lesson for all companies conducting operations in China, especially if affiliates or subsidiaries of US or UK headquartered companies, is that detailed compliance programmes will need to be instituted. Regulatory...more

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/16/2011

On April 26, 2011, the Department of Defense (“DoD”), General Services Administration (“GSA”), and National Aeronautics and Space administration (“NASA”) published a proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation...more

by Richard Milner on 2/3/2011

The new Bribery Act 2010 is due to come in to force in April 2011. The Act is intended as a wholesale reform of the old bribery laws which were a complicated and confusing combination of statutory and common law offences from...more

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/6/2009

On June 16, 2009, Taiwan (aka Chinese Taipei) took the penultimate step in acceding to the World Trade Organization's Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), which will eventually grant Taiwan "free trade partner" status...more