FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 30-Interview with the FCPA Professor-Part 2
Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was a high priority for the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016. There's interest in how the new administration could impact enforcement as...more
This installment of MoFo’s Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments highlights important Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel changes, an increase in government resources being dedicated to FCPA enforcement...more
Giving away my old age, we all loved the 1960s Batman series starring Adam West. Thanks to the Batman show we were given a long list of words to underscore Batman and Robin’s slugfests with the weekly villain (e.g. Penguin,...more
What I’m about to say is grossly oversimplified, but here goes: The Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions have two primary prongs. The first says that an individual who voluntarily provides the SEC with original...more
Last week, in Liu v. Siemens, AG, the Second Circuit held that the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower retaliation provision (15 U.S.C. 78u-6(h)(1)) does not apply extraterritorially, in the first Second Circuit decision to...more