Compliance Tip of the Day: Leveraging AI for Real-Time Third-Party Risk Management
Episode 365 -- Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 12: Compliance Is Good Business: Getting Beyond Fines with Tom Fox of Compliance Podcast Network
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 296: Listen and Learn -- Third-Party Rights in Contracts (Part 1 - Rules)
Corporate Use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
One Month to More Effective Written Standards: Day 17 – Policies for Third-Parties
Third Party Observation in Patent Prosecution in China
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Recent Federal and State Debt Collection Developments
Thobekile Cynthia Khumalo on Third Party Due Diligence
Protecting Trade Secrets When Facing Lawsuits or Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
Education Data Privacy and Security Laws: Best Practices for School Districts
Episode 162 -- Jessica Sanderson on How to Conduct a Remote Third Party Audit
VIDEO: Update on Third Party Workers’ Compensation Settlements in Pennsylvania
Episode 120: Interview of NAVEX Global Third-Party Risk Officials: Chris Bailey and Stephen Gooding
Subro Sense Podcast - Unpacking Product Claims Against Amazon
Business Succession Planning: Strategies for the Transition
E17: Carpenter Decision Builds Up Privacy from #SCOTUS
Day 17 of One Month to More Effective Continuous Improvement-Financial Health Monitoring
Day 6 of One Month to More Effective Continuous Improvement-Data Analytics and the Monitoring of Third Parties
FCPA COMPLIANCE REPORT-EPISODE 337, JAMES GELLERT ON ASSESSING 3RD PARTY FINANCIAL HEALTH FOR COMPLIANCE
2024 saw another strong year of Foreign Corruption Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). There were 15 resolutions with...more
Attention all compliance officers at large technology companies – have you checked your mail lately? Because you might find a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission with FCPA risk written all over it....more
A careful reading of the DOJ and SEC settlement documents for the SAP case will puzzle you. I know I am scratching my head trying to make sense of the whole picture here. There are a number of significant indicators of a...more
Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco’s September 15, 2022, memorandum on revisions to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Corporate Enforcement Policies (the Monaco Memo) reflects that preservation of business...more
The DOJ has signaled that CEO and CCO certifications will become a staple of all corporate settlement agreements. Critics worry CEOs and CCOs face undue personal liability and argue it will dissuade CCOs from accepting the...more
In a dramatic departure from prior practice, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently released its first Opinion Procedure Release (“OPR”) in over eight years, and perhaps responding to criticism from the business...more
On February 17, 2022, KT Corporation (KT, formerly known as Korea Telecom) resolved a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to corruption schemes in...more
The arduous process of FCPA compliance requires risk teams to digest and cross-reference a morass of information – from internal data analysis to human representatives collecting interviews on the ground. Diligence failures...more
On June 25, 2021, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) simultaneously announced that the international engineering and project management firm, Amec Foster Wheeler (“Foster Wheeler”...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued an opinion letter (catalogued as FCPA Opinion No. 20-01) stating that it does not intend to take enforcement action under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) against a...more
Nine years ago today, on November 4, 2010, was Panalpina Settlement Day which made history for the single largest number of companies to simultaneously settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)-related violations. It was...more
June 20, 2019 – Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and its subsidiary, WMT Brasilia, agreed to a combined criminal penalty and disgorgement of $282M, together with WMT’s criminal guilty plea and undertakings in an NPA, to reach a global...more
Obtaining permissions, approvals and licences in India creates high risks for bribery on account of there being significant interaction between the company and government authorities. Originally published by IBA...more
If you review the last ten years of FCPA enforcement, the unmistakable pattern is rising expectations with regard to corporate compliance programs, particularly with regard to third party due diligence and risk management....more
FCPA Best Practices - The Risks Posed by Third Parties and the Importance of Third-Party Audits - Introduction - Since 2010, the United States government has extracted just shy of $5 billion in corporate...more
Welcome to the third issue of Focus on China Compliance for 2015. According to the FCPA Blog’s October 2015 Corporate Investigations List, China leads the countries reported to be involved in FCPA investigations with 29...more
Today we celebrate innovation. On this day in 1873, a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets was granted. This marked the birth of one of the world’s most famous garments: the blue jeans. Jacob Davis, a...more
Most organizations engage with hundreds, if not often thousands, of third party vendors, suppliers, agents and business partners, creating a daunting and ever-expanding scope of risk. This risk arises from: 1....more
The recent examples of compliance program credits for Morgan Stanley and Ralph Lauren have demonstrated that, more than ever, an effective compliance program can protect a company from criminal indictment and generate bottom...more
I am sure Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers sometimes sit back and marvel at the world they have helped create – Companies are devoting more resources to the due diligence process for screening...more
Trying to avoid the unusually strict import controls in Argentina and facilitate faster clearance of its products through customs, a subsidiary of Ralph Lauren Corp. was found to have bribed local officials between 2005 and...more
“You do not want to be spread too thin”. When I heard that phrase a light bulb went off inside my head. It was uttered to me by Jan Farley, the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) of Dresser-Rand. I asked Jan what he meant by the...more
Ed. Note-David Simon is a partner at Foley and Lardner and Bill Athanas is a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP. Both have practices which include FCPA compliance. After my recent post on distributors under the...more
This Part III is the final installment of my review of the Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) FCPA enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In this Part III, I will review the FCPA issues that...more
In Parts II and III of my review of the Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), I will discuss some the processes and...more