Corruption, Self-Reporting, Criminal Prosecution

A Game-Changer Relating to FCPA Enforcement

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/12/2025

U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi on her first day in office – Feb. 5, 2025 – sent several memos to all employees of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) laying out top priorities. In one memo, the DOJ instructs its...more

DOJ's Newly Revised Corporate Enforcement Policy Incentivizes Robust Compliance Programs, Cooperation and Remediation

BakerHostetler on 1/30/2023

On Jan. 17, AAG Polite announced “the first significant changes” to the CEP since 2017. The policy revisions will apply to all corporate criminal matters handled by the Criminal Division and offer companies “new, significant,...more

DOJ Announces Formal Expansion of Corporate Enforcement Policy to Incentivize More Self-Reporting

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 1/20/2023

On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite announced revisions to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP), expanding the availability of a potential full...more

2019 OFAC Sanctions Enforcement Review (Part I of II)

The Volkov Law Group on 1/21/2020

While DOJ had its biggest year in FCPA enforcement, OFAC quietly had a record year in enforcement. OFAC collected approximately $1.28 billion (yes, with a B) in 26 separate enforcement actions. That is quite an increase...more

2019 Developments and Trends in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) & Global Anti-Corruption Efforts, Part 2 of 3

Butler Snow LLP on 9/10/2019

Previously, we introduced you to this topic and provided updates about the positive international trends in anti-corruption efforts, bribery, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Today, we...more

The lesser spotted, greatly discussed DPA

Hogan Lovells on 4/5/2018

On 19 March 2018, Singapore's Parliament ushered in a raft of criminal justice reforms, including the significant introduction of a deferred prosecution agreement ("DPA") regime. ...more

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2015 Year-End Update

BakerHostetler on 4/20/2016

Both the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have continued their focus on anticorruption enforcement in 2015. Although there was a decline in enforcement...more

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