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The Volkov Law Group

Lessons Learned from Ericsson’s DPA Breach: An Internal Investigation Nightmare (Part III of III)

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This is not your typical FCPA enforcement action Lessons Learned column.  Instead, Ericsson’s breach of its DPA presents a laundry list of internal investigation errors – as a practitioner in this area, this is the nightmare...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Practical Steps To Address DOJ Changes to Corporate Enforcement Policies

In one of the first substantive speeches on corporate criminal enforcement under the Biden administration, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced on October 28, 2021, several immediate changes to Department of Justice...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco Emphasizes Continued Focus on White Collar Crime Enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice

The Department of Justice (“DOJ” or “Department”) has continued to make clear that white collar crime is a top priority of its enforcement efforts. On October 28, 2021, Deputy Attorney General (“DAG”) Lisa Monaco issued a...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

The First PNF/AFA Common Guidelines

When Law No. 2016-1691 (Sapin II Law) created the convention judicaire d’intérêt public (CJIP), modeled after the American deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), it was feared that the existence of potentially dueling French...more

White & Case LLP

Corporate-led internal investigations become a prerequisite to enter into a French DPA

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France is aligning itself with the US model of corporate prosecution - The new guidelines released by both the French Anticorruption Agency ("AFA") and the National Financial Prosecution Office ("PNF") on 27 June, 2019...more

A&O Shearman

FCPA Digest - Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - July 2019

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Recent Trends And Patterns In FCPA Enforcement - Although the DOJ and SEC brought a relatively low number of FCPA enforcement actions in the first half of 2019, an unusually large portion of those enforcement actions...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The NPA; The Petrobras FCPA Enforcement Action: Part III

This blog post concludes my multi-part exploration of the Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (Petrobras) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. Today we consider the stunning result achieved by Petrobras –...more

WilmerHale

The Case of AL disclosure rights and privilege in the age of DPAs

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On 19 April 2018 the High Court handed down its judgment in the case R (on the application of AL) v Serious Fraud Office. The Claimant (AL) is a current defendant in criminal proceedings brought by the SFO....more

Troutman Pepper

The Spring Meeting Confronts the Yates Memo: Execs in the Front Lines of Corporate Criminal Responsibility; Presentation of the...

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The Business Law Section’s Director and Officer Liability Committee conducted a program at the Section’s Spring Meeting in Montréal. The program focused on the recent Yates memorandum of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

DOJ Provides Guidance on Prosecution of Individuals

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) long has required entities seeking credit for cooperating with its investigations to provide what it terms “full and truthful” cooperation. In policies memorialized over time, DOJ has been...more

Alston & Bird

“Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing”: The Yates Memo and the DOJ’s Focus on Individuals

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On September 9, 2015, the Department of Justice issued a memo (“Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing”) to federal prosecutors nationwide implementing new policies that—for the first time—prioritize the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

D.C. Circuit to Decide Scope of Judges’ Authority in Approval Process for Deferred Prosecution Agreements

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A federal judge exceeded his authority when he rejected a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) entered into earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a Dutch aerospace company, the DOJ and company will...more

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Red Notice Newsleter

Welcome to the May 2014 edition of Red Notice, a publication of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. This month, on the anticorruption front, Avon Products, Inc. (“Avon”) agrees to pay USD $135 million to settle a...more

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