Episode 116 -- Alstom Executive Convicted of FCPA and Money Laundering Offenses
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 165-BHP FCPA Enforcement and Lessons Learned for the Compliance Practitioner
Bribery & Corruption in the Military. A Front-Line View (Part II)
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 130, The Oscars and Compliance, Part IV with Jay Rosen
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 121-FCPA Year in Review, Part II
Thinking Compliance When Protecting Your Ideas Internationally
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 66-Visit with the FCPA Professor
Fine Tuning Your Anti Corruption Compliance Program
The FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report, Episode 3
On February 6, bipartisan members of the US Helsinki Commission, led by Chairman Senator Roger Wicker, called on US Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and US Secretary of Commerce Howard...more
What is the legal framework governing bribery in Canada? The Criminal Code and the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (the CFPOA) are the primary pieces of legislation governing bribery in Canada. The Criminal...more
What is the legal framework governing bribery in Kuwait? In the State of Kuwait, bribery and corruption are governed by several distinct and overlapping laws. In particular, Kuwait enacted a stand-alone anti-corruption...more
What is the legal framework governing bribery in Qatar? The State of Qatar (Qatar or the State) is a constitutional monarchy. Since 2013 the hereditary Emir, or Head of State, is the His Highness Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad...more
What is the legal framework governing bribery in the Zambia? Bribery in Zambia is currently governed by the Anti-Corruption Act, 2012 (the Act)....more
What is the legal framework governing bribery in Burundi? - The key legislation governing bribery in Burundi is the Anti-Bribery Act 2006. However, in prosecution of bribery, reference is made to provisions found in other...more
What is the legal framework governing bribery in Hong Kong? - The Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Cap. 201) (POBO), enacted in 1971, is the primary anti-bribery legislation in Hong Kong and is enforced by the Independent...more
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
In a judgment of 30 July 2025, the Higher Regional Court of Munich sentenced a former member of the Bundestag to a suspended sentence of nine months and a fine of EUR 10,000 for bribery of Council of Europe parliamentarians...more
As data breach litigation continues to increase, companies need to worry about a new point of vulnerability - overseas employees. Many large companies outsource customer services to India and other low-cost providers to take...more
President Trump’s recent Executive Order (EO), which seeks to reduce enforcement of the anti-bribery and anti-corruption provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), may be perceived as a declaration of an...more
In Samantar v. Yousuf, the US Supreme Court held that foreign officials, when sued in their individual capacity, are subject to immunity under a similar, but different set of rules that govern lawsuits against foreign states....more
One of the most notable developments in the anti-corruption world is the Trump Administration’s Feb. 10 Executive Order, “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement To Further American Economic and National Security.” ...more
The landscape of criminal prosecution of foreign bribery has shifted, and the second Trump administration has made its priorities clear; however, companies still have 950 million reasons and counting to strengthen their...more
On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (“EO”) titled “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security.” This EO comes on the tail of Attorney...more
Australia has a zero-tolerance approach to corruption, and this policy knows no border or nationality. Bribery or attempts to bribe foreign public officials are considered severe crimes, as mentioned in division 70 of the...more
In December 2023, US Congress passed a landmark anti-bribery law: the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA). FEPA was designed to supplement the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and expand liability to foreign...more
Two recent court Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases, a significant amendment to the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), and the new pilot whistleblower rewards program show that Anti-Corruption Enforcement...more
On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published final regulations (Final Regulations) regarding clean vehicle tax credits under Internal Revenue Code sections 25E...more
The sentencing of Romy Andrianarisoa, the first ever foreign public official to be convicted under the Bribery Act 2010, provides important takeaways. On 10 May 2024, Romy Andrianarisoa was sentenced to three-and-a-half...more
Building on the recent passage of the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), at the American Bar Association’s 2024 National Institute on White Collar Crime conference in San Francisco earlier this month (2024 ABA...more
According to the terms of a superseding information made public by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York on or about February 13, 2024, Mauricio Gomez Baez (“Baez”)—a former Stericycle executive for...more
FEPA contains a broad prohibition on corrupt activity and applies to a broad category of public officials. First, FEPA makes it unlawful for any foreign official to “demand, seek, receive, accept, or agree to” receive...more
As we look back on the anti-corruption enforcement trends we saw in 2023, there were several key developments. The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) brought 11 enforcement actions in 2023. Only six were against companies -...more