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Your Asia-Pacific Anti-Corruption Rundown

Posted by Wendy Wysong - July 31, 2018

New Developments Across the Region Clifford Chance’s anti-corruption specialists in Asia-Pacific surveyed recent developments in five jurisdictions. Here’s what you need to know. with co-authors Kirsten Scott, Lei Shi, Peter Coney and Janice Goh The big picture: Singapore and Australia test drive Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs). Japan and China issue…

4 Current FCPA Enforcement Trends

Posted by Michael Volkov - July 19, 2018

“Resources Reflect Policy” and Other Observations Michael Volkov discusses themes emerging in the DOJ’s and SEC’s enforcement of FCPA violations thus far in 2018. There are two distinct themes in FCPA enforcement: The first is consistency (i.e., that some enforcement actions are relatively consistent across the board), and, in the…

Family, Friends, and the FCPA: The Credit Suisse Enforcement Action

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - July 17, 2018

Recently, Credit Suisse settled an FCPA enforcement action to the tune of $77 million for the illegal hiring of family members and close personal friends of Chinese government employees, as well as employees in Chinese state-owned enterprises. Compliance expert and long-time CCI contributor Tom Fox explores the details, the result…

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One of the World’s Most Feared Enforcement Tools

Posted by Anne Eberhardt - July 5, 2018

The History of FCPA Enforcement, Part 2 In Part 1 of this two-part series on the history of the enforcement of the FCPA, Anne Eberhardt discussed some of the factors that led to its creation. In this second part, she describes how the FCPA evolved into one of the most…

How the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Came to Be

Posted by Anne Eberhardt - July 3, 2018

The History of FCPA Enforcement, Part 1 Anne Eberhardt, Senior Director at Gavin Solmonese and an expert in FCPA, forensic, compliance, fraud and corruption investigations, offers a brief history of the FCPA. In this first installment, she provides historical context for the regulation, discusses its 1977 enactment and touches on…

Crash Landing: Lessons From the Panasonic FCPA Enforcement

Posted by Thomas Fox - June 20, 2018

Those bemoaning the lack of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity can cease. With the Dun & Bradstreet Inc. (D&B) declination in April and May’s enforcement action involving Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC) and its parent Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic), U.S. regulators at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have…

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10 Lessons from Operation Car Wash

Posted by Andy Webb-Vidal - April 3, 2018

The State of Corruption Risk in Latin America The biggest-ever corruption and bribery investigation in Latin America has seen scores of business leaders and politicians end up in prison. So riveting is the story that it’s now been dramatized into a series and streamed on Netflix. Andy Webb-Vidal explains the…

What Is the Current State of Anti-Bribery and Corruption Prosecution?

Posted by Anne Eberhardt - March 23, 2018

Trump and the FCPA Instances of global corruption pepper our newspapers and news feeds. Closer to home, allegations of corruption have taken center stage in the American political landscape, and President Trump has been openly critical of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, leaving many in the compliance field to wonder…

TRACE International’s 2017 Global Enforcement Report

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - March 15, 2018

TRACE International, the globally renowned anti-bribery standard setting organization, has published its annual Global Enforcement Report. The Global Enforcement Report (GER) provides graphic and textual analyses of all known investigations and enforcement actions involving transnational commercial bribery since the passage of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The findings note a reversion to the…

Miller & Chevalier’s FCPA Winter Review 2018

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - March 7, 2018

Every quarter, Miller & Chevalier’s International practice publishes a review of the latest FCPA enforcement actions. This is a comprehensive guide to actions against corporations and individuals, ongoing policy developments and related litigation and international developments.

FCPA Investigations Without Breaking the Bank

Posted by Roscoe Howard - January 26, 2018

Costs can balloon quickly in FCPA investigations, however, these investigations don’t have to spin out of fiscal control. Corporate counsel can and should get to the root of alleged violations – certainly before the government does – without “boiling the ocean” to unearth the facts and decimating the organization’s bottom line. Based on Roscoe, Michael and Pat’s experience managing corporate investigations, both as defense counsel and as…

The Asia-Pacific Top 10 FCPA Enforcement Actions of 2017

Posted by Wendy Wysong - January 24, 2018

Asia Pacific continues to give rise to a large number of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions. Four of the nine companies that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Fraud Section includes on its list of 2017 FCPA Enforcement Actions are based or were operating in the region, as…