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At the recent AI Strategy Summit in New York, Benesch Partner Aslam Rawoof joined a distinguished panel to discuss the legal, ethical and compliance considerations surrounding corporate AI policy. Alongside panelists...more
Significant Expansion to Corporate Criminal Liability Becomes Law in the United Kingdom - On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) became law. Under the Act, corporations will become...more
If we look at recent Supreme Court decisions, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a pretty dismal record, with well-publicized losses in AMG and Axon. At the district court level, however, things are quite different; we...more
There are so many factors that go into breach response. Determining the size of the breach, time limitations, legal requirements, notification needs, urgency for containment, and interrupted business operations are just a...more
On May, 3, 2023, the House of Commons passed Bill S-211, An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to amend the Customs Tariff (the Act). The Act introduces a public...more
Forced labor in the supply chain is not quite a new corporate compliance challenge; the United Kingdom and Australia, for example, have required corporations to police against such abuses in their supply chains since the...more
Editor’s Note: From time to time, ComplexDiscovery highlights publicly available or privately purchasable announcements, content updates, and research from cyber, data, and legal discovery providers, research organizations,...more
In a highly anticipated speech, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco delivered remarks outlining updates to the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) perspective on the Corporate Crime Enforcement policy. These updates are the...more
On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published its long-awaited options paper on Corporate Criminal Liability (“the Paper”). The Paper discussed a “failure to prevent money laundering offence” (the “FTPML Offence”), but did...more
Join the Go-To Event of the Year for Mexico’s Anti-Corruption Community. The annual ACI’s Anti-Corruption Summit in Mexico is back to Mexico City on March 22-23, 2022! This is the most important anti-corruption compliance...more
The arduous process of FCPA compliance requires risk teams to digest and cross-reference a morass of information – from internal data analysis to human representatives collecting interviews on the ground. Diligence failures...more
Regulatory compliance in the auto finance industry, or financial services in general, is challenging enough under “everyday” circumstances. Crisis scenarios only amplify opportunities for legal and compliance risks to slip...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
5 Things to Know for Securing Buy-In and Budgets for Data-Driven Compliance, Monitoring and Investigations... During this one-hour webinar, you will gain practical takeaways on: - What to anticipate: Recent examples of...more
Today’s modern world enables complex business transactions to occur both within the United States as well as abroad in cross-border activities. Many of these transactions pose significant risks to business operations and the...more
In January 2017, the UK Government issued a consultation paper calling for evidence on reforming corporate criminal liability for economic crime. Nearly four years later, on 3 November 2020, the Government’s response was...more
This summer, one of the UK’s best-known online brands found its supply chain at the center of a high-profile modern slavery investigation. Within hours of the story breaking the company’s share price plummeted, as...more
Boards of directors have a duty to exercise oversight and to monitor the company’s operational viability, legal compliance and financial performance during this COVID-19 pandemic. In Marchand v. Barnhill, the Delaware Supreme...more
The CCPA took effect on 1 January 2020, introducing significant compliance burdens for most businesses that collect personal information about California residents. The reach of the CCPA extends beyond California and the US;...more
Editors’ Note: This is the fourth in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed anti-corruption trends in 2020. Up next: a look...more
In recent weeks, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published guidance in the Justice Manual at Section 4-4.112 on how it will award cooperation credit to entities and individuals that are being investigated for...more
On April 30, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ), Criminal Division released a new guidance document intended to assist prosecutors in evaluating corporate compliance programs and guide corporations in creating them. The...more
This is the third in a series of articles in which members of BCLP’s White Collar team review the recent report of the House of Lords Select Committee’s, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”. Here we...more
Following mounting calls for reform of the UK's corporate criminal liability regime, the Government is expected to consult later this year on potential reforms, which are likely to include a new corporate offence of failing...more
Shakespeare’s observation that the “past is prologue” certainly applies to corporate criminal liability in the UK and France, as these jurisdictions embrace with gusto corporate prosecutions akin to those pursued in the US...more