INTRODUCTION - On 22 December 2023, President Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill for 2024. Buried hundreds of pages into the NDAA is the new Foreign Extortion...more
White collar practitioners Neil Smith, William Semins, Nicole Stockey, and David Peet discuss their key takeaways from this year’s 37th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act....more
12/9/2020
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Cooperation ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Government Officials ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
White Collar Crimes
INTRODUCTION - On 3 July 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released the second edition of the Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Resource...more
In a speech to the Economic Club of New York on September 9, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Chair Jay Clayton lamented foreign regulators’ inconsistent enforcement of their own anti-corruption laws that impose...more
On Wednesday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or the “Commission”) became the latest government agency to formally set its sights on foreign corruption. ...more
At the 34th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act held last week in Washington, D.C., industry executives, members of the defense bar, and regulators examined developments in the enforcement of the...more
12/8/2017
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Corruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
White Collar Crimes