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Latham & Watkins LLP

Food for Thought: Individuals Remain in SFO’s Sights as Four From Patisserie Valerie Charged With Fraud

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Individuals continue to face risk from prosecutions for economic crime, despite media focus on corporate criminal liability reforms. Four individuals have today appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with fraud...more

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Investor Directors in the Hot Seat as Enforcement Risk Grows

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Greater focus on strong corporate governance and transparency is placing company directors in the UK and elsewhere under growing scrutiny and increased risk of individual civil and criminal liability. As new case law and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Uber’s Former Chief Security Officer Found Guilty of Obstruction for Coverup of Data Breaches

On October 5, 2022, after a monthlong jury trial, former Uber Chief Information Security Officer Joseph Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and misprision of a felony...more

Hogan Lovells

Zaostrzenie odpowiedzialności podmiotów zbiorowych – nowe plany rządu

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W ostatnim czasie rząd zaprezentował założenia nowelizacji ustawy o odpowiedzialności podmiotów zbiorowych za czyny zabronione pod groźbą kary. Jest to akt nakładający odpowiedzialność na korporacje za czyny popełnione przez...more

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Tightening the liability of collective entities - new government plans

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The government recently presented the assumptions of the amendment to the Act on the Liability of Collective Entities for Criminal Offences. This is an act that imposes liability on corporations for acts committed by persons...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

DOJ CCO Certification Requirement Will Up the Ante of CCO Oversight

Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice have portended a sea change in the oversight responsibilities of chief compliance officers (CCOs) as it concerns corporate resolutions going forward. In public remarks made March...more

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New and improved? Corporate liability for corruption in Malaysia

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SEA View, Article XV: May 2021 - Section 17A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act raises the possibility of corporate liability for corruption in addition to personal liability for board and senior management...more

Jones Day

Directors' Duties—A European Overview: Financial Distress and COVID-19

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A company or group's financial distress causes significant turmoil for its owners, directors, managers, employees and often its suppliers and other creditors. For directors in particular, there are significant...more

Butler Snow LLP

Surge in I.C.E. Immigration Enforcement is Wake-Up Call to U.S. Employers

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Here is a wake-up call for employers thinking about shoring up their immigration compliance process as a New Year’s resolution. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is targeting employers and has dramatically...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

'Ostrich' Theory Enforces Ill-Defined Duty to Investigate Clients' Conduct

In recent years, the application of a “conscious avoidance” or “willful blindness” theory as the basis of attorneys’ liability for clients’ criminal conduct has been on the rise. In principle, this standard — commonly...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

UPDATE re Is New York's Proposal a Harbinger of Things to Come? Certification of BSA/AML Compliance and Personal Liability for...

Update - This announcement comes just days after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo nominated Maria Vullo, another lawyer, to replace Benjamin Lawsky, who resigned as the Superintendent of the Department of Financial...more

Locke Lord LLP

Newly Proposed Anti-Money Laundering Regulations in New York Signal Increasing Personal Criminal Liability for AML/BSA Compliance...

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Earlier this month, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced newly proposed anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering regulations that impose increased compliance requirements and more importantly, vastly expanded...more

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