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Third Party Observation in Patent Prosecution in China
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On December 11, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), and...more
One university lost 14 awards; another, four. An investigator was suspended governmentwide. A public institution paid back more than $850,000, while two others returned nearly a million dollars....more
ACI is excited to welcome you back in-person to the 14th Advanced Forum on FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry, taking place on July 21–22, 2022 in Boston! Legal and compliance professionals from...more
A recent (March 1, 2021) Court of International Trade ("CIT") opinion, Meyer Corp. v. United States,1has potentially wide-ranging implications for global supply chains, because it calls into question use of the "first sale"...more
Cardinal Health Inc. (Cardinal) settled its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matter with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. According to the SEC Press Release, Anita B. Bandy, Associate Director in...more
Drug giants Pfizer and Mylan have inked a deal that will merge the former’s off-patent drugs with the latter’s generics business, a tie-up that creates a mammoth global seller of lower-priced medicines....more
President Obama issued an executive order on December 2, 2016 blocking the sale of the U.S. business of Aixtron SE (“Aixtron”), a German semiconductor manufacturer, to a German subsidiary of a Chinese fund, Fujian Grand Chip...more
In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more
The SEC continues its cutting edge FCPA enforcement program, bringing in a variety of enforcement cases and employing some new strategies. In its latest foray, the SEC settled with Las Vegas Sands, owned by Sheldon...more
On February 16, 2016, the SEC announced its first ever deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) with an individual in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) case. As part of a settlement in which a Massachusetts-based...more
Travel, entertainment and gifts tied to inadequate controls are recurrent themes in FCPA cases. Many of these cases involve the use of agents and center in China. Each of these recurrent items appear in the most recent FCPA...more
The recent Tianjin port explosion, like the 2011 Japanese earthquake and Thai floods, will lead to massive supply chain disruption. The impacted area included a high concentration of multinational and technology companies....more
On December 22, 2014, French power and transportation company Alstom S.A. (“Alstom”) pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and agreed to pay $772.29 million, the largest criminal fine ever...more
Today we celebrate the birth of one of America’s most iconic authors, Edgar Allen Poe, who was born on this day in Boston, Massachusetts. Anyone who reads or watches a mystery show on television owes a debt to Poe for...more
In this episode I take a deep dive into the recent concluded Avon FCPA enforcement action. ...more
Today I conclude my 2014 blog posts with a final look at the Avon Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. Before getting to the key lessons that a compliance practitioner may draw from this enforcement...more