Corruption, Crime & Compliance: DOJ’s Shifting Approach to Recidivism and Self-Disclosure
Encouraging and Managing Employee Self-Reporting
The Latest on Antitrust Compliance
Andy Dunbar and Nick Morgan on What the SEC Expects from Your Internal Investigation
Compliance Perspectives: The Antitrust Division’s Office of Decree Enforcement
FERC: A Discussion on its Mission, Market Manipulation Investigations, and Common Violations
Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update
Podcast - Risk Management: Impact of Revised FCPA Policy on International Risk Management Programs
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 380, Laura Perkins on issues around self-disclosure
Nonpayment of Subcontractors: Can Subcontractors Get Any Help From the Government?
Episode 155-Mara Senn on FCPA Investigations and the Decision to Self-Disclose
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 31-the FCPA Year in Review, Corporate Enforcement Actions
Corporate Criminal Liability – Interview with Bridget Rohde, Member, Mintz Levin
On June 2, the French ministry of Justice released a new order addressed to French prosecutors on the criminal policy relating to international corruption and how such cases should be handled. In this order, which...more
In 2019, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continued its efforts, begun a few years prior, to enhance transparency with respect to the DOJ's prosecutorial decision-making. In public statements, DOJ...more
In a time of shifting opinions on the benefits of globalization, China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative (OBOR) offers an unexpected bright spot for multinational companies able and willing to participate in this...more
Boyd Johnson is the New York-based co-chair of WilmerHale’s investigations practice, while Stephen Pollard leads the firm’s UK team. Both partners joined WilmerHale in late 2011 – Johnson from the US Attorney’s Office for the...more
When unraveling a major corporate scandal, especially multi-year schemes involving senior executives, the blame game or lessons learned approach can easily turn into a fruitless exercise. The VA and Takata scandals are...more
Last April, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice launched a one-year pilot program in the Fraud Section’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Unit. The pilot program, self-described as “building” on the...more
On September 20, 2016, Skadden presented a seminar titled “Government Enforcement Investigations – Trends and Perspectives from the UK, US and China” in London. The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Director of Enforcement...more
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) prohibits both United States and foreign corporations and nationals from offering or paying, or authorizing the offer or payment, of anything of value to a foreign government...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently initiated a one-year pilot program to encourage companies to self-report violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Any company contemplating self-reporting such a...more
I respect prosecutors, most of them at least. I had the fortunate opportunity to work with a number of terrific prosecutors. Most are intelligent, hard working and committed to doing the right thing. I recognize that there...more
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
In April, the Fraud Section of the United States Department of Justice announced several measures designed to enhance its effort to discover and prosecute violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). See, 15 U.S.C....more
For years, FCPA observers have predicted that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) will increase its prosecutions of corporate officers and employees for FCPA violations. These predictions have so far proven disputable, as the...more
Earlier this month, Assistant US Attorney Leslie Caldwell announced that the US Department of Justice’s Criminal Division Fraud Section will try to entice companies to self-report potential FCPA issues. The DOJ included...more
More carrot, less stick? On 5 April 2016, the Fraud Section of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division issued an Enforcement Plan and Guidance (the DOJ Guidance), setting out the steps that it is taking to...more
Both the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have continued their focus on anticorruption enforcement in 2015. Although there was a decline in enforcement...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a memorandum (the “FCPA Enforcement Memorandum”) on April 5, 2016 detailing a new enforcement plan for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) investigations. The DOJ announced...more
Pursuing a classic “carrot and stick” approach to incentivizing corporate self-disclosure of FCPA violations and individual wrongdoing connected to FCPA violations, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Fraud Section announced a...more
On April 5, 2016, Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced a new “FCPA pilot program” designed to motivate companies to voluntarily selfdisclose...more
We’ve previously written about how the Yates Memo announced an increased focus on individual accountability, and that the DOJ’s broader focus on individual accountability would likely encourage the Antitrust Division to...more
On October 7, 2015, members of the Lead Director Network (LDN) were joined by chief legal officer and general counsel (GC) guests in Washington, DC, for a discussion with Andrew Ceresney, director of the Division of...more
Just a week after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) introduced its new Compliance Counsel, and just a month after the DOJ issued the “Yates memo,” it is now being reported that the DOJ is considering a new policy that...more