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Morgan Lewis

Staying in Bounds: Compliance Considerations in the Sports Industry

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In the complex and dynamic world of sports, legal compliance is crucial for maintaining integrity, ensuring fair play, and safeguarding the interests of all stakeholders. From anti-corruption measures to tax issues to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The NBA, Data Driven Compliance and Jontay Porter

One of the best examples I have recently seen on the power of data driven compliance is playing out in real time in the NBA. It is the Jontay Porter betting scandal. This event had driven home why transparency, coupled with...more

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Wachsende Bedeutung der Unternehmenskultur

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Was Unternehmen aus einem der größten Baseball-Skandale lernen können - Selten hatte die juristische Aufarbeitung sportlicher Verfehlungen einen so großen Nachhall wie zuletzt beim „Sign Stealing“ in der Major League...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Astros Players and Communicating Compliance

The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal is only going to get worse and worse. In addition to the report by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) of the “Dark Arts” program by the Astros front office to steal signs in a program called...more

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It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose but How You Steal the Game

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The Houston Astros’ reputation is benched for the foreseeable future. The interesting thing is that it is not for stealing; it’s for how they stole. Baseball is a game that embraces stealing. You can steal bases and – as many...more

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Compliance Perspectives: Sign Stealing in the MLB

Breaking the rules is breaking the rules no matter where it occurs. And for those of us in compliance there is much to learn from scandals of all sorts. Chris Rose, the co-host of Intentional Talk on the MLB Network and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Astros Cheating Scandal and Compliance – Part 6: Final Thoughts on the Scarlet ‘C’

Culture and Why It Matters - For anyone who was paying attention to the Astros, it has long been clear that the team had a very insular and toxic culture. The Astros culture was broken, toxic and this culture lead directly...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Astros Cheating Scandal and Compliance – Part 5: The Whistleblower and The Amnesty

I am nearing the end of a multi-part exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. ...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Astros Cheating Scandal and Compliance – Part 4: Ethics and The Truth of the Game

Today, I wanted to consider some of the ethical issues involved, why do we have ethics, more specifically, why do we have ethics in sports. At its most basic, ethics is knowing right from wrong. There is no question the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Astros Cheating Scandal and Compliance-Part 2, Hinch and Luhnow

I am in the midst of a multipart exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. MLB issued...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Due Diligence, Zero Tolerance And Compliance

What is due diligence? What is zero tolerance? How do these impact employee morale? How do these concepts link together? I thought about these questions and several more when the Houston Astros announced they had traded for...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - Russian

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – U.S. Agencies Decline to Prosecute Teradata for Alleged FCPA Violations – On February 26, 2018, Teradata Corporation, an Ohio-based enterprise software database management company,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - Chinese

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – U.S. Agencies Decline to Prosecute Teradata for Alleged FCPA Violations – On February 26, 2018, Teradata Corporation, an Ohio-based enterprise software database management company,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - February 2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – U.S. Agencies Decline to Prosecute Teradata for Alleged FCPA Violations – On February 26, 2018, Teradata Corporation, an Ohio-based enterprise software database management company,...more

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2016 Trends #5: The Wide World of Sports

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If 2016 is anything like last year, we can count on the world of sports to provide a variety of fodder for ethics and compliance discussions. Sports scandals now rival political and business ethics scandals as the...more

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2015 Update

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Despite a decline in enforcement actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the first half of 2015 has continued to highlight the relevance and ever-evolving effects of the...more

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Global Anti-Corruption Enforcement Trends Hit FIFA

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Insights on the anti-corruption trends that contributed to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) scandal, and six essential characteristics of organizations whose cultures help prevent bribery and...more

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