Foreign regulators continue to intensify their efforts to combat bribery and corruption. France’s Anti-Corruption Agency (L’Agence française anticorruption or AFA) recently published its year-in-review for 2024, which showed...more
5/1/2025
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Bribery ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Enforcement Statistics ,
France ,
Multinationals ,
New Guidance ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
Effective September 1, 2025, the UK’s Failure to Prevent Fraud offense will go into effect as part of the UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the ECCTA). The law significantly expands corporate liability...more
4/23/2025
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Compliance ,
Compliance Dates ,
Corporate Liability ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
EU ,
Failure to Prevent ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
New Legislation ,
Risk Management ,
UK
On February 5, 2025, Attorney General Pamela Bondi issued a memo requiring DOJ’s Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (“FCPA”) Unit to “prioritize investigations related to foreign bribery that facilitates the criminal operations of...more
3/25/2025
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Cross-Border ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
France ,
Joint Task Force ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Significant Transnational Criminal Organization ,
Switzerland ,
Trump Administration ,
UK