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Substantial Strengthening of Australia's Foreign Bribery Laws: Are Your Procedures up to Scratch?

The Situation: The Australian Federal Parliament has passed the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Act 2024 ("Act"), some six years after a bill to create a 'failure to prevent' foreign bribery offence...more

FCPA 2022 Year in Review

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) enforcement has yet to rebound from the immediate pre-pandemic period. In 2022, DOJ and SEC resolved eight corporate FCPA matters for $878 million, including four resolutions coordinated...more

UK Corporates at Risk Again? UK Government Announces Plans to Adopt New Offence of Failure to Prevent Economic Crime

In Short  - The Situation: Following years of lobbying by senior prosecutors and other commentators, the UK government seems set to introduce an offence of a corporate failing to prevent economic crime....more

FCPA 2020 Year in Review

In 2020, the biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) headline was the record-shattering global anticorruption enforcement fines and penalties collected by foreign regulators in actions involving a coordinated FCPA...more

The Future Direction of Corporate Criminal Responsibility in Australia

On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission's Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in Parliament. The Final Report makes significant recommendations for reform of corporate criminal...more

FCPA 2019 Year in Review

In the third year of the Trump Administration, the biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") headlines were record corporate fines and penalties, and a banner year of individual FCPA enforcement highlighted by three DOJ...more

France Takes Next Step in Anticorruption Enforcement: First "French DPAs" and What Companies Should Know

The Situation: Anticorruption legislation passed by French lawmakers in 2016 authorizes the resolution of a corruption matter by means of a "convention judiciaire d'intérêt public" ("CJIP"), the French version of a deferred...more

French Anti-Corruption Agency Publishes Information Expected from Companies During Agency Inspections

The Situation: The French Anti-Corruption Agency has published the questions and documentation that companies will be expected to answer and provide when inspected by the Agency. The Result: The French Anti-Corruption...more

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