Is BAE’s Monitor Independent?
Herbert Smith LLP should have plenty of institutional knowledge as to many of the facts prompting the need for BAE’s monitor in the first place. Why? Mike Koehler explains.
Herbert Smith LLP should have plenty of institutional knowledge as to many of the facts prompting the need for BAE’s monitor in the first place. Why? Mike Koehler explains.
This post goes inside PBSJ and highlights how PBSJ’s FCPA inquiry caused a company with the highest bid to seek closing conditions regarding the FCPA inquiry that PBSJ found unacceptable, thereby prompting it to select a company with a lower bid price.
The SEC announced yesterday that Christopher Conte, an Associate Director in the Division of Enforcement, plans to leave the SEC next month to rejoin his previous employer, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Thomas Fox reviews the steps taken by Alliance One and Universal Corporation during the pendency of their respective FCPA investigations to reduce their fines for FCPA violations.
Lyondellbasell’s disclosure is not exactly “new” news as it was first disclosed in a March 2010 court filing in connection with the company’s bankruptcy proceeding, but the news is new to me, and perhaps to you as well.
Writer’s cramp at the DOJ, the well fed U.K. Ministry of Defence officials, and a potential cost-savings due diligence tool … it’s all here in the Friday roundup.
While the Bonny Island Bribery Club statistics are not yet final, this post provides a detailed breakdown of the current statistics.
Earlier this month, enforcement actions were brought against tobacco companies Alliance One International and Universal Corporation. This post describes the DOJ and SEC’s enforcement actions against both.
Notwithstanding its mysterious conclusion, the Giffen enforcement action was instructive because it represented a rare instance in which an FCPA defendant mounted an aggressive legal defense. So what did we learn from the Giffen case law?
The DOJ continues to encounter problems in some of its signature FCPA prosecutions. Earlier this month, it was the Giffen Gaffe. And how there is Victor Kozeny.
