Anti-Corruption enforcement remained a top priority in France, the UK, and the US in 2018. Join our firm's Global Anti-Corruption Team as they explain and analyze these three countries' anti-corruption enforcement efforts and...more
12/20/2018
/ Alstom ,
Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Corruption ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
France ,
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) ,
Petrobras ,
Risk Management ,
Siemens ,
Teva Pharmaceuticals ,
UK ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
White Collar Crimes
Anti-Corruption enforcement is a top priority in France, the UK, and the US. Each of these countries has armed its enforcers with the enforcement tools necessary to investigate and prosecute corporations and individuals. Join...more
4/19/2018
/ Acquisitions ,
Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
CJIP ,
Corruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
France ,
Internal Audit Functions ,
OECD ,
Sapin II ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
White Collar Crimes
Summary: Deferred prosecution agreements have been widely used by US prosecutors since the early 2000s. Prosecutors in the UK and France only obtained this power in 2014 and 2016 respectively – but they are making up for...more
4/13/2018
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
CJIP ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disgorgement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
France ,
Non-Prosecution Agreements ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act
Anticorruption conventions and legislation have global reach and introduce compliance demands on companies to prevent bribery. If your business operates on the global market, there is a risk that your employees or...more
On February 16, 2016, the SEC announced its first ever deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) with an individual in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) case. As part of a settlement in which a Massachusetts-based...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) settlements focus on companies’ lack of sufficient anti-corruption compliance programs, which means, to the SEC, that the companies...more
2/17/2016
/ Anti-Corruption ,
BHP Billiton ,
Books & Records ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Internal Controls ,
SAP SE ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
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