As widely anticipated, French and U.K. regulators recently published guidance detailing their expectations for corporate cooperation in enforcement investigations. Both sets of guidance demonstrate further alignment of those...more
10/30/2019
/ AFA ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
CJIP ,
Cooperation Agreement ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Cross-Border ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Evidence ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
France ,
Individual Accountability ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
Multinationals ,
New Guidance ,
Remediation ,
Sapin II ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
United States ,
Work-Product Doctrine ,
Yates Memorandum
On November 30, 2017, the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice (IHEJ) and Skadden hosted a roundtable at the Cercle de l’Union Interalliée in Paris to discuss new perspectives on the Sapin II Act and cross-border...more
12/22/2017
/ Anti-Corruption ,
CJIP ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corruption ,
Cross-Border ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
France ,
Guilty Pleas ,
HSBC ,
Non-Prosecution Agreements ,
Sapin II ,
Self-Reporting ,
Settlement
In a move that could signal a new phase of government enforcement in France, on November 27, 2017, French authorities published a Convention judiciaire d’intérêt public (CJIP) with HSBC Private Bank Suisse SA (HSBC PB), the...more
12/8/2017
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Banks ,
Client Data ,
Compliance ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Crimes ,
France ,
Guilty Pleas ,
HSBC ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Remediation ,
Sapin II ,
Settlement ,
Solicitation ,
Tax Evasion ,
Theft