As Details of $1B Glencore FCPA Settlement Show, Cooperation Pays
The blockbuster settlement and plea agreement by Glencore tells the story of a multinational culture of corruption. Attorney and podcaster ...
Tag: Anti-Corruption
Compliance and International Arbitration: Once Separate, Now Becoming Inextricably Linked
National and international arbitration venues and lower courts are now seeing corruption-related pleas, disclosures and settlement agreements introduced as evidence ...
The Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index 2020
Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) and Control Risks, the global specialist risk consulting firm, present the publication of the ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners
Getting the Full Picture, Fast Comprehensively identifying and verifying corporate hierarchies and ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) has become increasingly important ...
TRACE: FIFA’s Red Card
Ken Bensinger discusses his fascinating book, "Red Card," and the decades of misconduct by FIFA eventually uncovered by the FBI. ...
