When Law No. 2016-1691 (Sapin II Law) created the convention judicaire d’intérêt public (CJIP), modeled after the American deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), it was feared that the existence of potentially dueling French...more
8/21/2019
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Corporate Misconduct ,
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
France ,
Internal Investigations ,
Sapin II ,
Self-Reporting ,
White Collar Crimes
Danske Bank is likely to again become the target of a formal investigation in France. A Paris court began investigating Danske Bank in October 2017 in relation to transactions of its Estonian branch, between 2008 and 2011,...more
2/1/2019
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Enforcement Actions ,
Estonia ,
EU ,
Financial Transactions ,
France ,
Investigations ,
Money Laundering ,
Reasonable Suspicion ,
Regulatory Violations ,
White Collar Crimes
Brief Comments on The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2006 -
On Sept. 5, 2018, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down a unanimous...more
9/26/2018
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Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Bribery ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Declaratory Relief ,
Document Productions ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
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Legal Advice Privilege ,
Litigation Privilege ,
Natural Resources ,
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UK ,
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White Collar Crimes
En publiant le 23 avril 2018 une proposition de directive sur les lanceurs d’alerte, la Commission européenne répond aux sollicitations du Parlement européen. ...more
On Feb. 23, 2018, a couple of months after the first French DPA (“CJIP - convention judiciaire d’intérêt public”) in history was entered into between the French prosecutor office and HSBC Private Bank Suisse in relation to...more