The last several months brought forth major reforms to Brazil’s anti-corruption regulations and enforcement environment, including in the way that Brazilian companies are expected to enhance their compliance programs....more
3/12/2025
/ Accounting Controls ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Corruption ,
Due Diligence ,
Enforcement ,
Ethics ,
Fraud ,
Government Agencies ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Third-Party ,
Whistleblowers
U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity may be at a temporary standstill, but that should not mean much for the day-to-day operations of global anti-corruption compliance programs. If the Department of...more
2/13/2025
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
FEPA ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Money Laundering ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Freeze ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Risk Management ,
Smuggling ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration ,
White Collar Crimes
The only thing truly certain about the proposed U.S. outbound investment regulatory regime is that a lot of uncertainty remains. But industry responses garnered during the comment period may, at least partly, foretell the...more
3/12/2024
/ Acquisitions ,
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
CFIUS ,
China ,
Compliance ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Due Diligence ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
Mergers ,
National Security ,
Supply Chain ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury
The various and elusive tactics used by Russia to evade global sanctions and export controls have grown increasingly sophisticated over the last several months, putting the onus on multinational entities to become equally...more
3/4/2024
/ Belarus ,
Beneficial Owner ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Compliance ,
Distributors ,
Due Diligence ,
Economic Sanctions ,
European Commission ,
Evasion ,
Export Controls ,
Foreign Trade Regulations ,
G7 ,
Globally Harmonized System ,
Infrastructure ,
Military Conflict ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Offshore Companies ,
Risk Management ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Russia ,
SDN List ,
Shell Corporations ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Ukraine ,
US State Departments ,
White Collar Crimes
In early October 2023, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced a “new” (but not new) Department of Justice (DoJ) policy intended to incentivize acquiring companies to voluntarily self-disclose criminal misconduct...more
1/30/2024
/ Acquisitions ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Mergers ,
Risk Assessment ,
Safe Harbors ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
White Collar Crimes
In line with the Biden administration’s declaration last year that anticorruption is a “core United States national security interest,” sanctions evasion enforcement rapidly has become a core priority for the Department of...more
7/12/2022
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Best Practices ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Money Laundering ,
Multinationals ,
National Security ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Russia ,
Sanction Violations ,
Terrorist Financing ,
U.S. Treasury