Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 10, 2025
Compliance into the Weeds: USRA Declination Case Study - Self-Disclosure Best Practices
Daily Compliance News: April 8, 2025, The End of Monitors Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 48 – The March Madness Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending, March 22, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Daily Compliance News: March 19, 2025, The Why CISOs Quit Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending March 15, 2025
Episode 356 -- Trump Administration Hits Pause on FCPA Enforcement
Episode 351 -- Deep Dive into the AAR FCPA Settlement
Episode 350 -- Deep Dive into McKinsey FCPA Case
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: BIT Mining Resolves FCPA Case for $10 Million and CEO Pan Indicted
Episode 349 -- Review of the BIT Mining FCPA Settlement
Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
Episode 344 -- SEC Settles FCPA Case with Moog for $1.7 Million
Episode 339: Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
Episode 338 -- Deep Dive into the Deere SEC FCPA Case
Wicked Coin: The "Fat Leonard" Scandal
In our client alert, “The Case for Compliance: Why UK and EU Businesses Should Continue to Invest in Their Compliance Programs”, we highlighted seven reasons why, despite the US’ pause on bribery enforcement under the Foreign...more
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has a lot going for it right now: a director hellbent on tackling complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, an enhanced budget, new partnerships to tackle international bribery and corruption...more
On 20 March 2025, enforcement authorities in the UK, France and Switzerland announced the creation of the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce. The taskforce is comprised of: - The UK’s Serious Fraud...more
As Saudi Arabia emerges as a global investment destination, it is essential for foreign investors, financial institutions, and legal and compliance professionals to understand the Kingdom’s anti-corruption initiatives,...more
Designed for the busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past month, with...more
Join hosts Tatiana Sainati and Diana Shaw as they delve into the gripping story of General Sani Abacha, the Nigerian dictator who embezzled billions of dollars and ruled with an iron fist from 1993 to 1998. Known for his...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
There are numerous ways of committing procurement fraud. When investigating all options need to be considered and collection of intelligence is crucial. StoneTurn Managing Director Phathu Makhadi highlights the most common...more
We are thrilled to introduce the inaugural issue of our quarterly White Collar newsletter, a dedicated resource from Benesch’s White Collar, Government Investigations & Regulatory Compliance Practice Group. Each issue...more
Building on the recent passage of the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), at the American Bar Association’s 2024 National Institute on White Collar Crime conference in San Francisco earlier this month (2024 ABA...more
In December 2023, President Joe Biden signed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) into law under the broader Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). While FEPA’s sponsors hailed it as “the most...more
Commercial bribery enforcement also became more active, as the authorities marked the 30th anniversary of the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law. The revision of the PRC Anti-Espionage Law raised some concerns about national...more
Summary - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has created the International Corporate Anti-Bribery initiative (ICAB), which aims to strengthen the United States’ global efforts in combating corruption through enhanced...more
On November 29, 2023, Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) policymakers announced explicitly that they are, for the first time, leveraging data analytics to help proactively identify and prosecute crimes in foreign...more
It is no surprise that the United States’ fight against corruption is not confined to its borders. For decades, the government has sought to prosecute individuals and companies across the globe who have been involved in...more
Earlier this month, a federal judge vacated two convictions related to the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) investigation into corruption in international soccer, widely known as the “FIFA Case.” Despite the jury’s findings...more
Thursday 13 October 2022 saw the second reading of the draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, containing a raft of different measures including new and expanded powers for Companies House, the SFO and the NCA....more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to...more
Corruption can manifest in many different forms, including cronyism, embezzlement, extortion, and bribery, and taints industries and jurisdictions arounds the world on a daily basis. It slows economic growth, thwarts...more
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the change in presidential administrations in the United States in January 2021, US enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) declined in 2021. However, we...more
This summary is part of our regular reporting of trends and developments related to investigations and enforcement activity into fraud, corruption, and other misconduct by authorities in the United States and the Americas and...more
C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more
Getting to grips with the "new normal" needn't be guess work or a pursuit of the clairvoyant. While much remains uncertain, understanding how anti bribery and corruption (ABC) issues will develop in 2021 need not be. We have...more
To our bad guys, 2019 was a year flush with hope and opportunity; it ended with recidivism, more misery from Venezuela, a charlatan, an Okie who pulled a multi-million dollar fast-one on Chesapeake and, as in years past, a...more