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Robinson & Cole LLP

Legal Update: Department of Justice National Security Division Announces First-of-Its-Kind Declination under Its Voluntary...

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On May 22, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever declination under the National Security Division’s recently updated Enforcement Policy for Business Organizations (NSD Policy). The NSD Policy offers...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

National Security Division’s Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy in Action: Exchanging Cooperation for Declination

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would not charge MilliporeSigma, a life sciences company, even though one of its employees falsified export documents. The DOJ declined to prosecute...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

After Referral from CFIUS President Biden Prohibits the Purchase of Wyoming Real Estate and Cryptocurrency Facility

On May 13, 2024, President Biden, acting on a transaction referred to him from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), took the unusual step of ordering the prohibition of a real estate acquisition...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

DOJ Announces First-Ever Corporate Declination Under National Security Division’s Voluntary Self-Disclosure Program

Key Points - On May 21, 2024, the DOJ announced its first ever declination under the NSD’s updated Enforcement Policy, declining to prosecute Sigma-Aldrich Inc., d/b/a MilliporeSigma (a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt,...more

Snell & Wilmer

The Department of Justice Is Building a Data Security Protection and Enforcement Program

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In response to President Biden’s Executive Order authorizing increased data privacy measures, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Matthew G. Olsen announced that the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

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Beyond Whistleblowing: Additional Highlights From the Department of Justice at the 2024 ABA White Collar Conference

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As we wrote earlier this month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) made significant news at the recent American Bar Association White Collar Conference. But the Department didn’t stop at announcing its pilot whistleblower...more

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US DOJ’s National Security Division Updates Enforcement Policy for Criminal Sanctions and Export Control Violations with New Focus...

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On March 7, 2024, the US Department of Justice’s National Security Division (NSD) released a revised Voluntary Self-Disclosure (VSD) Policy (the “VSD Policy”). The VSD Policy substantially tracks the language of the previous...more

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In Continuing Efforts to Incentivize Self-Disclosures and Cooperation, DOJ Announces Pilot Program to Pay Criminal Whistleblowers

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Over the last few years, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has continuously announced significant policies and programs directed at encouraging and rewarding the timely reporting of corporate wrongdoing, incentivizing...more

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Criminal Tax Enforcement – What to Look For in 2024

IRS enforcement activity remained strong in 2023, with the volume of investigations and prosecutions initiated holding steady from 2022. Despite the substantial funding boost provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, with some...more

The Volkov Law Group

Preparing for the Storm — Effective Compliance in the New Sanctions Era (Part II of II)

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If companies operated with perfect governance mechanisms and controls, they would all be ready for the coming sanctions enforcement storm.  However, that is not the corporate reality.  Even after several companies are the...more

Torres Trade Law, PLLC

Trade Violations Under the False Claims Act

On February 7, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that settlements and judgements under the False Claims Act (FCA) exceeded $2 billion for the 2022 fiscal year. The 2022 fiscal year also had the second-highest...more

The Volkov Law Group

Lessons Learned from the SAP Enforcement Action — DOJ Changes Tack on FCPA Enforcement While SEC Digs into Third-Party Controls...

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A careful reading of the DOJ and SEC settlement documents for the SAP case will puzzle you.  I know I am scratching my head trying to make sense of the whole picture here.  There are a number of significant indicators of a...more

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Navigating U.S. Sanctions and Export Control Restrictions

Over the last several months, companies have become entangled in an increasingly complex web of new and expanded sanctions and export control restrictions related to Russia in response to its war on Ukraine. The current...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Get Your Pre-Merger Compliance Programs in Order: Department of Justice Announces M&A Safe Harbor Policy

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On October 4, 2023, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is implementing a new nationwide Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy (the “M&A Policy”)....more

A&O Shearman

Justice Department Announces New Corporate Enforcement Appointments In National Security Division

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On September 11, 2023, the Justice Department’s National Security Division (the “Division”) announced that it had made key appointments to lead the Division’s Corporate Enforcement program.  The new appointees include Ian...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Look into DOJ’s Current Corporate Criminal Enforcement Landscape

At the Global Investigations Review Annual Meeting in New York on September 21, 2023, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller (“Miller”) delivered remarks that provide an invaluable glimpse into the...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ’s National Security Division Places Corporate Crime in the Crosshairs

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The marriage of corporate enforcement and national security has been a defining feature of the DOJ under the Biden Administration. The Justice Department’s commitment to prosecuting corporate crimes that implicate national...more

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Federal Agencies Highlight Benefits of Self-Disclosure, Emphasize Enforcement of Trade Violations in Tri-Seal Compliance Note

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In a coordinated announcement, federal agencies stress the benefits of voluntarily disclosing potential trade violations while emphasizing increased enforcement....more

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A New National Security Frontier: Executive Order and Coming Regulations Restricting US Technology Investments in China

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President Biden issued a long-awaited executive order, “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” (the Executive Order or E.O.), on August 9, 2023,...more

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Justice Department Announces First Criminal Cases from Multi-Agency Disruptive Technology Strike Force

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The Justice Department has made it clear that it intends to prioritize criminal prosecution of national security cases to prevent hostile nation-states from illegally acquiring sensitive U.S technology.  To this end, DOJ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“Sanctions Are The New FCPA”: DOJ Increases Focus on Sanctions and Export Control Enforcement

On March 2, 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered remarks to the ABA’s National Institute on White Collar Crime. Unsurprisingly, her remarks focused heavily on inspiring a culture of compliance – including...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

DOJ Reinforces Its Focus on Affirmative Corporate Accountability at the ABA’s 38th Annual White Collar Conference

Earlier this month, at the American Bar Association’s (ABA) 38th National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. highlighted the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

DOJ Announces Significant Policy Changes Affecting Corporate Criminal Enforcement

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In back-to-back speeches to the American Bar Association's National Institute on White Collar Crime on March 2-3, 2023, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Assistant Attorney General...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

DOJ Focuses on Corporate Crime Involving Sanctions Evasion, Export Controls Violations and Similar Economic Crimes

Key Points - On March 2, 2023, DOJ announced that its NSD would hire more than 25 new prosecutors to investigate and prosecute sanctions evasion, export controls violations and similar economic crimes. Consistent with...more

Perkins Coie

DOJ Announces Shift Toward Corporate Enforcement for Sanctions and Export Control Violations

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Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco once again delivered groundbreaking remarks at the American Bar Association (ABA) National Institute on White Collar Crime (ABA White Collar Conference) on March 2, 2023, this time...more

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