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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

A New Legal Front Opens in the Fight Against Bribery and Corruption

It appears a new legal front may well open in the international fight against bribery and corruption as Dutch prosecutors have announced to Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Shell) that they are nearing the conclusion of an...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Dorsey Anti-Corruption Digest - November 2017

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Massachusetts-based Alere Inc. will pay $13 million to settle charges alleging that the company bribed foreign officials and engaged in an accounting fraud, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cease and...more

Brooks Pierce

Texas Supreme Court Applies Absolute Privilege to Statements in FCPA Investigations

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You may remember the 2013 Texas Court of Appeals case involving Shell Oil Company and Robert Writt. We covered it here, and it left FCPA internal investigations based in Texas in an awkward spot. To recap very briefly, in...more

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Texas Supreme Court: Companies Shielded from Defamation Claims for Statements in Internal Investigation Reports

Last week, the Texas Supreme Court joined the majority of jurisdictions in holding that a company enjoys an absolute privilege when providing the Department of Justice (DOJ) with an internal investigation report containing...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance Risk Logic’s Mastering Compliance in International Markets Conference

If you are in the Far East there is now a master conference centered around the top compliance practitioners in the region. Next month, from June 8-9, Compliance Risk Logic is putting on its a conference in Singapore,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Marx Brothers Compliance Week Continues – The Stateroom Scene and High-Risk

I continue my exploration of the Marx Brothers’ movies by looking at the famous Stateroom scene from the MGM release A Night at the Opera. In researching this I was somewhat stunned to find that the scene was written and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Chamber of Commerce: Corporations Form the Cornerstone of FCPA Compliance

Recently one of the most unlikely sources for praise of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) came out to inform us all that corporations are the cornerstone of FCPA compliance and enforcement. You may be surprised to find...more

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