Episode 333 -- The Boeing Proposed Plea Agreement
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 26 – The Compliance Week Wrap Up Edition
Episode 305 -- Deep Dive into SAP FCPA Settlement
Corruption, Crime, and Compliance - The Ericsson FCPA DPA Breach Settlement
Episode 258 -- Deep Dive into ABB FCPA Settlement
What DAG Lisa Monaco's Speech Means for Compliance Programs
Federal Monitorships and Making Them Work
FCPA Compliance Report - James Koukios on the Monaco Speech
Compliance Into The Weeds: DAG Announces Changes in Enforcement Priorities
Episode 160 -- A Deep Dive into the Herbalife FCPA Settlement
Everything Compliance-Episode 57-the Airbus edition
Episode 119 -- The Ericsson FCPA Settlement
Episode 117 -- FCPA Update: Samsung FCPA Settlement; Braskem Former CEO Indicted; Transport CEO Convicted after Trial
This Week in FCPA-Episode 96, 2018 - the Opening Day edition
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 134, Judge Rakoff, Judge Leon and their comments on DPAs, with the FCPA Professor
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report Episode 129-Judge Rakoff, Judge Leon and Individual Prosecutions Under the FCPA
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 118-the Alstom FCPA Enforcement Action
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 31-the FCPA Year in Review, Corporate Enforcement Actions
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 30-Interview with the FCPA Professor-Part 2
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 29-Interview with the FCPA Professor-Part 1
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
The Justice Department continues to pile up victories out of the world soccer FIFA federation bribery scandal. Julius Baer Group, the Swiss banker, agreed to a three-year, deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) and to pay...more
Enforcement authorities throughout the Americas continued investigations of fraud, corruption, and other misconduct across the region. Below are some of the highlights of the last quarter. ...more
The Justice Department continues to produce FCPA resolutions in a record year for enforcement. The latest, and perhaps the beginning of several end-of-year and end of the Trump Administration resolutions, is DOJ’s settlement...more
Compliance professionals face extraordinary risks – not just for the enterprise but personal risks. CCOs should not panic or overreact when the government brings an enforcement action against a compliance officer for a...more
Recently, three of Australia's four largest banks have self-reported breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2018 admitted fault and agreed to pay a civil...more
The Justice Department won another FCPA trial. After a three-week trial, Mark Lambert of Mount Airy, Maryland, was found guilty of four counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to...more
The Justice Department has been very busy in FCPA enforcement matters -- (1) Samsung Heavy Industries paid $75 million to settle FCPA violations; (2) Braskem's former CEO was indicted on FCPA charges; and (3) after a...more
Global developments in anti-bribery and corruption regulation, compliance and enforcement - Welcome to the 2018 edition of Allen & Overy’s annual publication covering global developments in anti-bribery and corruption...more
Société Générale (“SocGen”) entered into two deferred prosecution agreements (“DPA”) and agreed to pay $1.34 billion in penalties: $717 million to the Justice Department...more
In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more
Last week, the Justice Department announced its first FCPA enforcement action in 2018 – a follow-on settlement from prior FCPA enforcement actions centering on a bribery scheme involving a Russian government official from a...more
On Feb. 23, 2018, a couple of months after the first French DPA (“CJIP - convention judiciaire d’intérêt public”) in history was entered into between the French prosecutor office and HSBC Private Bank Suisse in relation to...more
Despite a year of continued global political uncertainty and increasing enforcement, shareholder activism and foreign investment control activity, the 2018 outlook for Europe is positive overall. Skadden partners in the U.K.,...more
While I am not sure how much celebrating HSBC might be doing this week, they should have pride in making it through the five-year DPA. The bank worked very hard to overcome its miss-steps and hopefully it will continue to do...more
Welcome to the summer edition of Blank Rome’s White Collar Watch. In a world that seems to bring new challenges daily—such as the global cybersecurity attacks that were launched in late June—this newsletter is designed to...more
I take a break from my series on the new standard for revenue recognition to honor George Romero who passed away this weekend. If you have watched any monster/zombie picture over the past 50 years, you have witnessed the...more
Europe at a glance - Across Europe, law makers are steadily expanding the circumstances in which companies can be found liable (whether criminally or otherwise) for the criminal conduct of their employees and other...more
You know this has been a big year in FCPA enforcement when DOJ and the SEC announce two FCPA settlements during the usually sleepy week between Christmas and New Years. And what a year it has been – more to follow in my...more
Bribery and corruption remained a prominent fixture of media headlines throughout 2016, competing with the UK referendum on membership of the European Union, the Panama Papers leaks, and the continued activity of terrorist...more
Despite a decline in enforcement actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the first half of 2015 has continued to highlight the relevance and ever-evolving effects of the...more