Corruption, Bribery, FEPA

President Trump’s Executive Order Pauses FCPA Enforcement Pending Attorney General Review

DLA Piper on 2/12/2025

On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) directing Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) until new enforcement guidelines and...more

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments: 2024 Year in Review

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/16/2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this special edition of our award-winning monthly Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments newsletter summarizes the most...more

The private sector's role in fighting corruption

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/3/2024

By Gerry Zack, CCEP, CFE, CIA Things are changing when it comes to anticorruption. The U.S. Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA)— passed in December 2023—makes demanding, seeking, receiving, accepting, or agreeing to...more

Client Alert: Foreign Extortion Prevention Act

Whiteford on 3/5/2024

FEPA contains a broad prohibition on corrupt activity and applies to a broad category of public officials. First, FEPA makes it unlawful for any foreign official to “demand, seek, receive, accept, or agree to” receive...more

In Tackling the Demand Side of Global Corruption, New U.S. Law Accounts for the Potential Role of Companies

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human... on 2/12/2024

Much has been said about the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (“FEPA”) that President Biden signed into the law in December 2023, with particular attention given to the corrupt foreign officials who seek bribes from...more

Foreign Extortion Prevention Act Criminalizes Demand-Side Bribery

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/9/2024

On December 22, 2023, President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) as part of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. FEPA criminalizes demand-side bribery by foreign officials...more

Congress Passes Foreign Extortion Prevention Act in Effort to Address “Demand-Side” of Foreign Bribery Equation

The Volkov Law Group on 1/9/2024

On December 14, 2023, Congress passed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (“FEPA”) in an effort to address certain deficiencies inherent in the current iteration of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), as part of the...more

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