Podcast - Risk Management: Revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy
This Week in FCPA-Episode 80, The Last Jedi Edition
FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 346, Mike Skopets on Miller’s Summer 2017 FCPA Report
FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 345-Mike Volkov on Linde Gas and CDM Smith declinations
This Week in FCPA-Episode 58, the Declination Edition
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 43, the Linde Declination
This Week in FCPA-Episode 56
FCPA Pilot Program
Everything Compliance-Episode 11, the first 100 Days of the Trump Administration, Part II
FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 325, Miller & Chevalier Report on Declinations
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 14th Annual Summit on Anti-Corruption, Integrity & ESG returns to Brazil for another groundbreaking year to discuss the current high-stakes dilemmas impacting your organization....more
DOJ closed out its FCPA enforcement year in 2022 with two significant settlements, the ABB and Honeywell cases. Aside from these two big settlements, there was a flurry of other actions in the last quarter of 2022....more
Enforcement activity reached new heights in 2019. The year saw the two largest corporate resolutions in the history of the FCPA, corporate penalties paid to US enforcement agencies topped last year’s record levels, and...more
Happy New Year!! In the FCPA arena, 2019 was a record year – in enforcement and compliance. Many continuing trends are becoming more than trends – meaning they are turning into established practices....more
In the first corporate FCPA action of 2019, Cognizant Technology Solutions Company settled its long-running FCPA case, agreeing to pay the SEC $25 million....more
Despite predictions of a slow-down in enforcement under the Trump administration—and indications that enforcement in some areas has decreased in the past year1—2018 was yet again an active year for FCPA enforcement. The year...more
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - $34 Million SEC Settlement for Legg Mason - On August 27, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Legg Mason Inc. will pay more than $34 million to settle an...more
In a recently released letter, the Justice Department issued a declination to the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) for violations of the FCPA under the FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy. DOJ required ICBL to...more
We had three major Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases resolved in Q2 2018. They all reached different resolutions under the new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy and the new anti-piling on policy....more
After a lengthy investigation, Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) settled an FCPA enforcement action with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $9 million. ...more
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – Canadian Mining Company Settles with SEC over FCPA Charges – On March 26, Kinross Gold Corporation settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its alleged failure to...more
On March 1, 2018, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it has expanded the scope of cases in which it will consider issuing a formal declination of criminal charges for a company that...more
Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the top compliance- and ethics-related stories of the week, including: 1. There are several FCPA 40th anniversary pieces going up these days. The FCPA Blog is looking...more
Companies have a clear road map to resolve substantive FCPA violations with no criminal penalty. ...more
In this episode, I visit with Mike Skopets, from Miller & Chevalier on the firm’s Summer 2017 FCPA Report. We discuss the background to the Report and begin with what macro trends the firm identified. We discuss the numbers...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) ended its probe of Net1 UEPS Technologies, according to SEC filings from the South African-based payment processing company. The company received a declination from the Securities and Exchange...more
Welcome to Dorsey & Whitney’s monthly Anti-Corruption Digest. The Digest puts material regarding anti-corruption enforcement from around the world at your fingertips, keeping you ahead of critical events that impact global...more
In this podcast, Marc Bohn and James Tillen from the firm of Miller & Chevalier discuss their recent publication entitled, "Evaluating FCPA Pilot Program: Declinations on the Rise" where they review the state of Department of...more
Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) remained a high priority for the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016, resulting in more than 50 combined enforcement actions, record...more
Shearman & Sterling’s bi-annual Trends & Patterns in FCPA Enforcement report provides insightful analysis of recent enforcement trends and patterns in the US, the UK and elsewhere, as well as helpful guidance on emerging best...more
Breaking new ground, the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued two “declinations with disgorgement” to two companies accused of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. These declinations, released under the...more
Last week there were two declinations issued by Department of Justice (DOJ) for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters. The matters involved two Texas based, privately held companies. The first was HMT LLC (HMT) which...more
Tom Fox and I recorded a podcast recently on the Johnson Controls enforcement action. In our podcast we discuss a number of issues relating to the Justice Department’s decision to reward Johnson Controls with a declination....more