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UK Supreme Court Limits Serious Fraud Office's Extraterritorial Powers

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The Issue: The UK Supreme Court was asked to decide whether section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 granted the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") powers to compel the production of documents held outside the United Kingdom. ...more

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KBR – no paradigm shift for the SFO. We look back at what is.

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Much has been made of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this month in KBR, Inc. v Director of the Serious Fraud Office, in which it confirmed the limits on UK authorities' reach overseas in anti-corruption investigations....more

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English Supreme Court Limits Serious Fraud Office’s Extraterritorial Reach

On 5 February 2021, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could not force a foreign company to hand over material that it holds abroad through a notice issued under Section 2(3) of the Criminal...more

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Theft of U.S. Companies’ IP Assets and Other National Security Issues Involving Foreign Governments and Foreign-Controlled...

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Federal authorities have recently described the threat of economic espionage from foreign entities as one of the greatest threats to the economic vitality of the United States, and this has led to an increase in...more

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The French Anti-Corruption Agency Publishes Its 2019 Annual Activity Report

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The French Anti-Corruption Agency ("FAA") report details key statistics relating to the controls the FAA carried out in 2019 and lessons to be drawn from this activity. On 9 July 2020, the FAA published its 2019 annual...more

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Skadden's 2019 Insights: Compliance Investigations in China Take On New Urgency

The ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and China have caused some U.S. companies to become increasingly concerned that the Chinese authorities may subject their local operations to closer scrutiny, leading these...more

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