The Legal Tightrope: Surviving Parallel Investigations
Navigating Government Contracts: Diana Shaw on Oversight and Whistleblower Protections
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 45 - The Grit, Grace and Gift of Second Chances
The Justice Insiders Podcast - The Ever-Expanding Net: Corporate Compliance in an Era of Increasing Trade Sanctions and Restrictions
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
Episode 333 -- The Boeing Proposed Plea Agreement
DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
FCPA Survival Guide - Step 8 - Investing in Compliance
Exploring the AI and Crypto Intersection
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Jarkesy’s Implications for the Administrative State
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 41 - The Dynamics of Decision-Making: Psychology and the Criminal Justice System
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
The Justice Insiders Podcast - AI-Washing: Everything Old Is New Again
The CFPB and State AGs Act Jointly Against Online Educational Company
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 3 - Extensive Remediation
Episode 324 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Latham’s Antitrust & Competition Practice provides insight on the current state of enforcement, including more expansive views of what constitutes a cartel, enhanced detection tools, and what to expect next....more
Both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption recognize that the news media plays a vital role in the detection of bribery and other acts of corruption...more
This is the seventh in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
CryptoLink is a compilation of news stories published by outside organizations. Akin aggregates the stories, but the information contained in them does not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of the firm. Akin's...more
The 2024 election year promises to make taxes front-of-mind for many business and individual taxpayers. Beyond the election, there are other note-worthy developments, along with several highly anticipated tax law cases that...more
New Crypto Products Launch in Custody, Cloud Collaborations and Stablecoins - This week, a major U.S. financial institution announced that its Digital Asset Custody platform is now live in the United States. According to...more
EUROPEAN COMMISSION ADOPTED A PROPOSAL DIRECTIVE ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE - On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (EC) adopted a proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence...more
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A. Basic Overview of Statute - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et seq. (FCPA), makes it unlawful for U.S. persons and entities and others who act within the jurisdiction of the...more
Business and Human Rights: Energy and extractives in a changing landscape of new generation trade agreements protecting and promoting both trade and human rights - As allegations of genocide, forced labour, or widespread...more
In 2017, following the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers data leaks, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a “call to action” for countries to do more to tackle enablers of tax crimes. ...more
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) went into effect on July 1 of 2020 Unlike its predecessor the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), the USMCA includes an article on anti-corruption, contained in...more
Recent and significant regulatory and legislative events in the digital asset space demonstrate the evolving and expanding approach by U.S. and international regulators to the burgeoning digital asset markets. These...more
ABA Tax Fraud Panel to Discuss IRS CI and Crypto Criminals - The Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) has made it clear that it is focusing on the abuse of digital currencies to further tax evasion,...more
Anti-Corruption enforcement is a top priority in France, the UK, and the US. Each of these countries has armed its enforcers with the enforcement tools necessary to investigate and prosecute corporations and individuals. Join...more
And a Tale of Four Countries: Singapore Fines a U.K. Bank, and the U.S. Imposes a Consent Order on a Chinese Bank - Less than a week apart, two major financial institutions (“FIs”) have been hit with penalties for failing...more
In reaction to fallout from the recent Odebrecht scandal, and aided by shifting political winds, Peru and Argentina have enacted significant corporate anticorruption legislation. Both countries have implemented laws...more
China has had strong anti-corruption laws for many years. On 1 January 1980, the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC Criminal Law”), containing the criminal offences of bribery and corruption, came into...more
Over the last year, we have seen the Justice Department and SEC’s international coordination efforts bear fruit. DOJ has expended time and efforts to train prosecutors and law enforcement on anti-corruption investigations and...more
Anticorruption conventions and legislation have global reach and introduce compliance demands on companies to prevent bribery. If your business operates on the global market, there is a risk that your employees or...more
For several years, the Antitrust Division’s investigations have been increasingly global in scope. Acting Assistant Attorney General Andrew Finch made clear that trend will continue in remarks at a conference on...more
Today I am joined again by Professor Samuel Buell, from Duke University School of Law to discuss a recent paper he co-authored with Rachel Brewster entitled, “The Market for Global AntiCorruption Enforcement“. In the paper...more
In April 2017, the European Commission ("Commission") published a tender offer seeking an assessment of the EU market for loan syndication and possible implications under EU competition rules. The successful candidate will...more
Matt Stephenson, myself and others have engaged in a dialogue about where Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement may be headed under the incoming administration. I have tried to focus on why compliance with...more
This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases and enforcement trends, including developments in U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement; the introduction of...more