Welcome to BakerHostetler’s 2017 Mid-Year Cross-Border Government Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Review. This edition delivers news, analysis and insights into key developments in the cross-border investigations and enforcement landscape during the first half of 2017. Perhaps more than any other period covered by this report, the first half of 2017 saw a marked, and by some measures unprecedented, uptick in international coordination in cross-border civil and criminal investigations and enforcement. U.S. authorities continue aggressive enforcement in parallel with their international counterparts, targeting a wide range of abusive practices – from securities fraud, to money laundering and the manipulation of benchmark interest rates – that have effects across multiple borders. Meanwhile, U.S. criminal and regulatory authorities are increasingly joining forces with law enforcement agencies in other countries to cooperatively investigate and prosecute cases.