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Holland & Knight LLP

Understanding the Department of Justice's New Safe Harbor Policy

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Continuing its focus on incentivizing prompt and voluntary self-disclosure of criminal misconduct, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced earlier this month a new U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Safe Harbor Policy...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

DOJ Announces New Voluntary Safe Harbor Policy for Mergers & Acquisitions

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new safe harbor policy for voluntary self-disclosures made in connection with mergers and acquisitions on Wednesday. Pursuant to this new policy, the DOJ will not prosecute...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

DOJ Unveils New M&A Safe Harbor Policy & Signals Resource Surge

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Over the last two years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced numerous policy changes on corporate criminal enforcement policies, which were largely based on a self-described “carrot and sticks” approach (“a mix of...more

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DOJ Makes Significant Revisions to Corporate Enforcement Policy

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), through Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr., announced on Jan. 17, 2023, "the first significant changes" to its Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) since 2017. The revisions...more

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert - Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2019 Developments and Predictions

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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

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DOJ revises FCPA corporate enforcement policy to clarify self-disclosure and cooperation credit requirements

On November 20, 2019, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the latest revisions to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corporate Enforcement Policy (the Corporate Enforcement Policy). The revised language provides...more

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert: Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2018 Developments and Predictions for 2019

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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

A&O Shearman

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Announces Revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy

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On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered remarks at the 34th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), in which he announced a revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

DOJ Expands and Codifies Policy Incentivizing Corporations to Voluntarily Self-Disclose FCPA Violations

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The revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy signals DOJ’s emphasis on corporate voluntary self-disclosure, rewarding cooperating companies with a presumption in favor of declination and reductions in penalties. ...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

U.S. Department of Justice Adopts New FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy to Enhance FCPA Pilot Program

When a company learns that an employee or third-party business partner may have bribed a foreign official, it is never an easy question as to whether the company should turn itself in to the U.S. government. On November 29,...more

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DOJ Announces New FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy

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On November 29, 2017, “[d]ue to the unique issues presented in FCPA matters,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new FCPA corporate enforcement policy published in a revision to the United States Attorneys'...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Everything Compliance-Episode 11, the first 100 Days of the Trump Administration, Part II

In this second of a two-part series, we conclude the panel’s discussion of the first 100 days of the Trump administration as it relates to compliance. This episode concludes with the panelists’ rants. 1. Matt Kelly opens...more

The Volkov Law Group

Additional Costs Of FCPA Investigations — Collateral Litigation

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When it comes to lawyers, there is no middle ground – you either love them or you hate them. When the government launches an FCPA investigation of a company, lawyers are drawn for two separate functions – to rescue the...more

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BakerHostetler's 2013 Mid-Year Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update

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We are pleased to share with you BakerHostetler's 2013 Mid-Year Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, which offers a summary of the following: - Company prosecutions; - Declinations; - Completed trials; ...more

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