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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for October 2024

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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

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Combatting Corruption: Marking the Anniversary of the Anniversary of the UN Corruption Convention’s Ratification

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UN Corruption Convention’s Ratification - In October 2003, the General Assembly officially ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption (“Corruption Convention”). Since that time, a total of 190 countries have...more

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1st FCPA Case Under Biden Offers Compliance Reminders

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The first Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case under President Joe Biden's administration reinforces some well-known risks for companies subject to the FCPA — namely, increased U.S. and international enforcement and cooperation...more

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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments For June 2021

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

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Second Circuit Affirms FCPA Conviction of Ng Lap Seng and Rejects Application of Supreme Court’s McDonnell Decision to FCPA

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In an interesting decision, well worth a read, on August 9, 2019, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected Ng Lap Seng’s appeal of his 2017 conviction for bribery of united Nationals officials.  ...more

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Second Circuit: Supreme Court’s McDonald Decision Does Not Delimit FCPA

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The bribery provisions of Exchange Act Section 30A are one of the three critical components of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The other two are the books and records and the internal control requirements....more

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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for October 2018

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

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DOJ Continues Run on Individual FCPA Criminal Prosecutions

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The Department of Justice announced criminal FCPA charges against two individuals in connection with bribery payments to foreign officials in Chad and Uganda. The Justice Department’s announcement occurred on the heels of...more

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Dorsey Anti-Corruption Digest - October 2017

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Sweden-based Telia Company AB has agreed to pay $965 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. v. Telia Co., No....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Booking a Meeting? In Venezuela It May Cost You a Rolex

First it was Petrobras but it certainly did not take long for the second shoe to drop for the other corrupt national energy company in Latin America, the Venezuelan national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, also known as...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2015

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 in the past month with links to primary...more

King & Spalding

Crude Allegations: Corruption in the Energy Trading Sector

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The world-wide energy trading sector, where traders match physical supply and demand of energy by purchasing, reselling, and moving commodities (crude oil and refined products, natural gas, coal, and even electricity) across...more

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Who Watches The Watchmen? A Look At Anti-Bribery Risks In The Legal Profession

Teodoro Obiang Mangue has led a life that few could easily relate to. ...more

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