The Department of Justice tweaked its FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy to further incentivize corporations to make voluntary disclosures. These small changes essentially acknowledge that companies in a very early stage of an...more
We were delighted to host the Local Data Company’s 20th Retail & Leisure Trends Summit on 26 September. Once again, the afternoon offered a great insight into the sector’s performance for the first half of 2019 from Lucy...more
The much heralded Corporate Co-operation Guidance published by the Serious Fraud Office recently offers little comfort to corporates struggling with the dilemma of whether to self-report wrongdoing. Instead it offers a...more
9/19/2019
/ Cooperation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Guidance ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Internal Investigations ,
Legal Advice Privilege ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
White Collar Crimes
On 16 July 2019, three individuals were acquitted of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to bribe. On the basis of the same evidence, their employer, Sarclad Limited, had previously admitted corporate criminal liability and...more
On 4 July 2019, Southwark Crown Court approved a deferred prosecution agreement between the SFO and Serco Group PLC in relation to fraudulent reporting in contracts for “tagging” individuals under curfew conditions. This is...more
7/5/2019
/ Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Internal Controls ,
Ministry of Justice ,
Public Contracts ,
Public Procurement Policies ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
The government published in May 2019 its responses to two Committee reports on financial crime. First, the House of Commons Treasury Committee on 8 March 2019, published its report on “Economic Crime – Anti-money laundering...more
6/10/2019
/ Aiding and Abetting ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Corporate Liability ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Failure to Prevent ,
Financial Crimes ,
Information Reports ,
Internal Controls ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
UK Criminal Finances Act 2017
This is the third in a series of articles in which members of BCLP’s White Collar team review the recent report of the House of Lords Select Committee’s, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”. Here we...more
In this second article of our series on the House of Lords Select Committee’s recent report, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”, we come to that now inescapable topic in British law and politics —...more
4/5/2019
/ Bilateral Agreements ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Cross-Border ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
Member State ,
Multinationals ,
Sanctions ,
Strategic Enforcement Plan ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
UK Bribery Act ,
Warrants
This is the first of a series of articles on the House of Lords Select Committee’s recent report, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”, in which members of BCLP’s White Collar team review the report. ...more
With the UK on the brink potentially of exiting the EU and business certainty at an all-time low, the Government faces enormous pressure to ensure that the UK remains an attractive place to do business. One very significant...more
3/14/2019
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Criminal Liability ,
Enforcement Authority ,
EU ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Money Laundering ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
UK Bribery Act
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