Compliance Perspectives: The German Corporate Sanctions Act
This Week in FCPA-Episode 55, the Covfefe Edition
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 131, The FCPA Professor Takes a Look Back at 2014
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 119-FCPA Year in Review, Part I
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 118-the Alstom FCPA Enforcement Action
Corporate Criminal Liability – Interview with Bridget Rohde, Member, Mintz Levin
Earlier this month, DOJ announced additional revisions to the Department’s existing policies and practices governing corporate criminal enforcement. Each of these revisions will soon find its way into DOJ’s Justice Manual....more
On September 15, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa O. Monaco announced changes to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Corporate Criminal Enforcement program. In her speech, DAG Monaco emphasized DOJ’s commitment to prosecuting...more
As many corporate practitioners know from experience, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers and federal prosecutors often factor a company’s inability to pay into corporate civil and criminal resolutions with the...more
The Situation: On October 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced two significant developments relating to the enforcement of white-collar crime: (i) new guidance on how prosecutors should evaluate requests...more
On October 8, 2019, the US Department of Justice (DOJ or Justice Department) issued new guidance on evaluating inability-to-pay arguments in a memorandum to the Criminal Division. The memorandum provides considerably more...more
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski announced, at the Global Investigations Review Live in New York, the release of a new policy in evaluating business organizations’ inability-to-pay...more
On September 12, 2019, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Miner signaled that the Department of Justice may provide further guidance to prosecutors—and companies—on how to evaluate claims of corporate poverty. In a...more
On March 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that they had reached resolution with a German-based major worldwide provider of medical equipment and...more
In reaction to fallout from the recent Odebrecht scandal, and aided by shifting political winds, Peru and Argentina have enacted significant corporate anticorruption legislation. Both countries have implemented laws...more
On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was issuing a new enforcement policy covering its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The...more
The December 23, 2014, announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that Alstom, S.A., a French power and transportation company, pled guilty to two Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges and agreed to pay $772...more
With the imposition of billion-dollar fines against large financial institutions, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") is focusing on banks for not only failing to comply with federal laws, but also for willfully violating...more