On April 23, Kramer Levin reported on the European Parliament’s approved proposal for the adoption of a whistleblower protection directive. On Oct. 7, the Directive on protection of persons reporting breaches of Union law...more
11/15/2019
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Cause of Action Accrual ,
Confidential Information ,
Disclosure ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Ethics ,
EU ,
EU Directive ,
Infringement ,
Internal Reporting ,
New Legislation ,
Public Disclosure ,
Sapin II ,
Third-Party ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers ,
White Collar Crimes
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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Anti-Corruption ,
CJIP ,
Cooperation ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
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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Danske Bank ,
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
/ Appeals ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Bribery ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Declaratory Relief ,
Document Productions ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Internal Investigations ,
Legal Advice Privilege ,
Litigation Privilege ,
Natural Resources ,
Self-Reporting ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
Whistleblowers ,
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