Friday FCPA Roundup
The DOJ appears not interested in Anadarko’s allegations and more disclosure news … its all here in the Friday roundup.
The DOJ appears not interested in Anadarko’s allegations and more disclosure news … its all here in the Friday roundup.
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.
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 Bribery Act is not the only thing delayed in the U.K., where in the world is James Tillery, Thai authorities looking into Alliance One and Universal Corp bribe recipients, and corporate directors appear satisfied … it’s all here in the Friday roundup.
This has got to set a record for the least amount of time between disclosure of an FCPA inquiry and collateral civil litigation …. less than 100 hours!
