Compliance and International Arbitration: Once Separate, Now Inextricably Linked
National and international arbitration venues and lower courts are now seeing corruption-related pleas, disclosures and settlement agreements introduced as evidence ...
Tag: Anti-Corruption
When It Comes to Preventing Bribery, Leave Nothing to the Imagination
One person’s harmless inducement is another’s criminal bribe. With customs, mores and laws that vary by culture, what constitutes bribery ...
Did Putin Invade Ukraine to Expand State Corruption?
Russia's invasion of Ukraine may be largely motivated by the drive to expand corrupt practices, writes Columbia University adjunct professor ...
How the Biden Administration Has Set the Table to Tackle Corruption
As outlined in a December strategy announcement, the Biden Administration intends to dramatically accelerate the fight against domestic and international ...
US District Court Rebuffed DOJ’s Basis for Claiming FCPA Jurisdiction Over Foreign Nationals. But New Precedent Is Unlikely
A U.S. District Court appeared to undermine an important aspect of FCPA cases – the determination of whether a foreign ...
Paul, Weiss 2021 FCPA and Anti-Corruption Enforcement Developments
FCPA enforcements fell in 2021 to their lowest in a decade, but many signs point to a rebound in FCPA ...
DOJ Enforcement in 2022: What the Monaco Memo and US Anti-Corruption Strategy Forecast for the Year Ahead
DOJ's latest remarks (via Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco) on corporate criminal enforcement carry important implications for compliance teams. Going ...
The Biden Administration’s New Attack on Corruption: What Businesses Need to Know
Though broad in scope, the Biden Administration's plan to counter domestic and international corruption follows four primary lines of effort. ...
Hughes Hubbard & Reed FCPA & Anti-Bribery 2022 Alert
A new sheriff is in town, at least when it comes to combatting corruption, according to an analysis by international ...
How Corruption Proliferates at the Port: What Supply Chain Managers Need to Know
As evidenced by the Nigerian port systems, corruption often arises from inefficient systems. Inter-agency coordination and process modernization can curb ...
With Updated AML/CFT Priorities, Businesses Across Verticals Face Unprecedented Exposure to FinCEN and OFAC Scrutiny
Updated enforcement priorities and guidance on facilitating ransomware payments remind companies of all types to establish holistic AML policies and ...
Bipartisan Group of Legislators Introduce Anticorruption Measure
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) and a bipartisan group of 17 House representatives recently introduced the Counter-Kleptocracy Act (CKA), which ...
