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Morrison & Foerster LLP

When Your Life Sciences Are on the Line: Securities Enforcement

Morrison Foerster partners Kate Driscoll and Nate Mendell, both former federal prosecutors and members of the firm’s Investigations + White Collar Defense Group, hosted the eighth episode of When Your Life Sciences Are on the...more

J.S. Held

Tag-Team Approach to Tackling Fraud

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A phone call comes in from a panicked client, the owner of a small, successful business. Your client was reviewing some financial records – a task usually handled by a long–time and trusted employee – and the client noticed a...more

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INDEPTH FEATURE: Corporate Fraud & Corruption 2024

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To what extent are boards and senior executives in your country of focus taking proactive steps to reduce incidences of fraud and corruption from surfacing within their company? Over the past several years, there has been...more

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Conducting Forensic Accounting And Internal Investigations

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Introduction - The term forensic accounting is often misused and misunderstood. Tell someone you are a forensic accountant, and the response typically is: “So, like CSI on television!” Sort of. But forensic accountants...more

The Volkov Law Group

Rockwell Automation Executives Arrested for Fraudulent Scheme

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Little problems can become big ones.  A failure to respond to a risk – whether it is a conflict of interest violation or a weakness in internal controls – can become even more significant depending on the size and scope of...more

The Volkov Law Group

Deutsche Bank FCPA and Fraud “Spoofing” Settlement: A Review of Deutsche Bank Conduct (Part II of II)

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Deutsche Bank’s ethics and compliance function faces numerous challenges.  Deutsche Bank has a storied record of scandals, government enforcement actions and failures to abide by prior deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs)....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Executives Acting in Bad Faith and the Role of the Board

A piece by Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog had some very stark language. He quoted from the Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson) 6-K filing for the following, “While the Company had a compliance program and a supporting...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Films of Val Lewton: Part 2 – The Cat People and Controls

As a compliance professional have you ever assessed whether who at your company has not taken annual leave in one, two or three years? It may be a discussion you might want to have, particularly around employees in high-risk...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Bond Fraud Trial Shows Need to Scrutinize Municipal Revenue Generation

Ramapo, N.Y., Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence is in the middle of a multi-week trial on two dozen securities fraud charges stemming from municipal bond issuances and accounting practices in Ramapo, a Rockland County...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance Isn’t Going Away (and neither should you) – Part I

Yesterday I presented my views on why I believe that Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement will continue under the new administration. Today, I want to begin a multi-part series (sorry I don’t know how long it will...more

Snell & Wilmer

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s One-Year “Pilot Program” Nears The Halfway Mark

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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) prohibits both United States and foreign corporations and nationals from offering or paying, or authorizing the offer or payment, of anything of value to a foreign government...more

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