FCPA Compliance Report: Upping Your Game in Compliance
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Ethical Decision - Making in Times of Change
Great Women in Compliance: Exploring the Future of Compliance - Key Takeaways from Compliance Week 2025
Upping Your Game: Episode 1 – Meeting Hui Chen’s Challenge
FCPA Compliance Report: From Compliance to Commercial Value: Removing Friction with AI
Daily Compliance News: April 28, 2025, The Santos Sobs Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Ellen Hunt on Compliance ROI and on a Due Diligence and the US Sentencing Guidelines
FCPA Compliance Report: Amanda Carty on a Due Diligence and Risk Management
FCPA Compliance Report: Kristy Grant-Hart on A 360° Review of the Future of Compliance
Episode 365 -- Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
FCPA Compliance Report: AI, Data Compliance, and Ownership - A Conversation with Andrew Hopkins
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 49 - The Depression Episode
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 3, 2025, The Tribute to Ice Edition
Compliance into the Weeds: The Role of Compliance Going Forward
Daily Compliance News: March 27, 2025, The Eliminate the District Courts Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Future of Enforcement with Jennifer Lee
FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating the Complexities of FTO Designations and Compliance in Mexico and Latin America
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Call me an optimist — it is a much better alternative than being a pessimist or a “realist” with a pessimistic bent. So, let’s start by acknowledging the obvious. Businesses are operating in a volatile environment. The...more
On February 5, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued two memoranda, General Policy Regarding Charging, Plea Negotiations, and Sentencing and Total Elimination of Cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations,...more
Enforcement and compliance prognosticators (like myself) continued to push DOJ’s promise to transform sanctions enforcement into the era of “the new FCPA.” While DOJ’s promise to bring about an aggressive corporate...more
New export controls, new section 301 duties, new OFAC requirements, new de minimis rule, new DOJ corporate compliance guidance, new international guidance on Russian sanctions. September had it all....more
As the interplay between export controls, trade sanctions, and anticorruption enforcement continues to intensify, multinational companies must remain vigilant in ensuring that their compliance programs address the many...more
The Justice Department has repeated on several occasions that it intends to aggressively prosecute corporations for sanctions and export controls violations. The “New FCPA” is how the Justice Department characterizes its...more
In this new era of aggressive sanctions enforcement, companies have to understand the red lines that define where criminal and civil enforcement risk increase. In contrast to the history of FCPA enforcement, DOJ and OFAC...more
On April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law an emergency supplemental appropriations law, H.R. 815 (Public Law 118-50), that provides substantial military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and could force the sale of...more
Ford Motor Company Agrees to $365M Settlement for Attempted Tariff Engineering Ford has agreed to settle the long-standing dispute over the tariff classification of vans imported from 2009 to 2013. At the time, Customs and...more
International Compliance Digest is the new Adams and Reese monthly newsletter focused on international trade compliance and enforcement. Each month we will bring you the latest in compliance and enforcement updates, including...more
You are reading the March 2024 Update of the Bass, Berry & Sims Enforcement Roundup, where we bring notable enforcement actions, policy changes, interesting news articles, and a bit of our insight to your inbox. Overview...more
We have received several requests to publish a list of red flags pertinent to multinational organizations. To accommodate these requests, we are publishing a three-part series on anticorruption, export controls and economic...more
As always, I tend to repeat myself. However, one important point needs to be repeated — DOJ is in the midst of launching an aggressive sanctions and export control program against corporations and individuals. DOJ has...more
2023 was a banner year in the sanctions space and regulators seem primed to continue that performance in 2024. In December 2023, numerous government officials and industry experts convened at the New York Forum on Economic...more
We have received several requests for a list of the compliance policies that make sense for every multinational company. So, as a follow-up to our earlier two posts providing “twelve steps to international compliance” (see...more
Within the trade bar there is cautiousness, curiosity and skepticism at the numerous pronouncements signaling greater enforcement of export controls and sanctions by the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Office of Foreign...more
In our prior update (published November 29), we provided the first five steps in our twelve-step program for international compliance. These steps are intended to help companies identify international regulatory risk inherent...more
You are reading the November 2023 Update of the Bass, Berry & Sims Enforcement Roundup, where we bring notable enforcement actions, policy changes, interesting news articles, and a bit of our insight to your inbox. ...more
As we have repeatedly noted in the context of other blog posts and webinars in which various representatives of The Volkov Law Group have participated, the violation of existing U.S. sanctions and export control regulations...more
As everyone knows, I tend to repeat myself — DOJ does as well. Over the past year, DOJ has warned global companies — over and over — about the coming criminal enforcement storm against companies for sanctions and export...more
Did you know that whistleblowers can use the False Claims Act to get the U.S. Government to investigate allegations of lost revenue to the U.S. Treasury, including underpaid Customs tariffs? A large importer recently found...more
Summary - The Department of Justice’s creation of two new leadership positions within the National Security Division (NSD) sends another strong signal to the private sector that federal law enforcement is pouring resources...more
How should companies think about DOJ, BIS and OFAC voluntary disclosure in the wake of the DOJ’s massive investment in sanctions and export control enforcement? The DOJ, BIS and OFAC released a joint compliance note...more
Recent developments include significant antitrust penalties, the issuance of CBP compliance guidance regarding the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, increasing emphasis on economic sanctions, “the new FCPA,” and the...more
On March 2, the Department of Commerce, Department of the Treasury and Department of Justice issued a tri-seal compliance note outlining methods Russia uses to evade sanctions and export controls....more