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What Compliance Leaders Need To Know About Germany’s Law To Strengthen Business Integrity

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Germany’s new “Law to Strengthen Business Integrity” (“Gesetz zur Stärkung der Integrität in der Wirtschaft”) will have a transformative effect on the German corporate compliance landscape when it is finally enacted,...more

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Compliance Perspectives: The German Corporate Sanctions Act

Germany has proposed legislation, likely to be ratified this Fall, that would mark a major change in how the government there enforces criminal violations in the corporate sector. The Corporate Sanctions Act, or CSA, would,...more

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Sanctions Risk: Drafting Contracts to Avoid ‘Double Jeopardy’

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In the recent case of Lamesa Investments Ltd v Cynergy Bank Ltd [2019] EWHC 1877 (Comm), the High Court upheld the bank’s attempt to avoid a common banking dilemma: the ‘double jeopardy’ of being contractually liable to make...more

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Germany’s "Corporate Sanctions Act": The Path to Corporate Criminal Liability

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The Situation: On August 22, 2019, the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection presented the draft Corporate Sanctions Act ("CSA"), a bill that would establish corporate criminal liability in Germany. The...more

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