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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Menendez Bribery Trial Offers Chance to Revisit ‘Dual Intent’

New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez (D), his wife, Nadine, and two businessmen are scheduled to face trial on bribery charges on May 6. They’ll become the latest example where the dual intent, or mixed motive, concept turns the...more

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert: Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2018 Developments and Predictions for 2019

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Despite predictions of a slow-down in enforcement under the Trump administration—and indications that enforcement in some areas has decreased in the past year1—2018 was yet again an active year for FCPA enforcement. The year...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 333, Professor Samuel Buell

Today I am joined again by Professor Samuel Buell, from Duke University School of Law to discuss a recent paper he co-authored with Rachel Brewster entitled, “The Market for Global AntiCorruption Enforcement“. In the paper...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense - June 2015

The Unfolding FIFA Scandal: Will the DOJ Show the Banks a Red Card? - Why it matters: The worldwide soccer community has for years decried the brazen corruption that permeated FIFA, international soccer’s governing...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for May 2015

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments in the past month with links to primary...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation

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Four SEC Commissioners addressed the annual SEC Speaks Conference, reviewing recent agency initiatives and tracing potential paths for the future. The SEC also brought another FCPA action, a misappropriation case and an...more

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This Week In Securities Litigation

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The Commission resolved its actions against the PRC based affiliates of five major accounting firms for failure to produce audit work papers. The settlement contains a series of procedures designed to facilitate production in...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Nobel Prize and FCPA Enforcement Going Forward

One hundred and 13 years ago on this date, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the...more

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SEC – DOJ Resolve FCPA Charges With Bio-Rad Labs

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The SEC and the DOJ resolved FCPA charges with California based life science research and clinical diagnostics company Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. The charges stem from bribes paid in Russia, Vietnam and Thailand. The company...more

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Self-reporting, Extensive Cooperation Yields Reduced Fine In SEC FCPA Action

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Layne Christensen, a global water management, construction and drilling company resolved FCPA bribery and books and records and internal controls charges with the SEC. In the Matter of Layne Christensen Company, Adm. Proc....more

Baker Donelson

China Amps Up Anti-Corruption Effort – What This Means for Your Company

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Last Friday, China’s 15-month-long bribery investigation into British multinational pharmaceutical GlaksoSmithKline (GSK) ended after a one-day trial in which the court found GSK’s local subsidiary guilty of bribing doctors...more

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The Origins of the FCPA: Lessons for Effective Compliance and Enforcement: Part Two

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The illicit or foreign payments cases - The preliminary inquiry was followed by formal SEC investigations early in 1974. The resulting cases would become known as the “illicit or foreign payments” cases. The focus of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Does Your Company Still Allow Facilitation Payments?

One of the more confusing areas of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is in that of facilitation payments. Facilitation payments are small bribes but make no mistake about it, they are bribes....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - July 2014

Welcome to the July 2014 edition of Red Notice, a publication of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. This month on the anticorruption front, two Noble Corporation executives settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...more

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Anti-Corruption Digest

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Anti-Corruption Digest is an update distributed on a monthly basis by Dorsey & Whitney providing a summary of the latest developments in anti-corruption enforcement activity around the world. In This Issue: -...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Individual FCPA Enforcement Actions In 2013

This year had the largest number of individual Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions since 2010, the year of the Gun Sting case. Here are the highlights of FCPA related enforcement actions against...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

BREAKING: In The Small Print: Huge Shake Up In UK Bribery Enforcement, US Style Whistleblowing & UK False Claims Act

Ed. Note-there have been some recent developments in the UK regarding the Bribery Act. TheBriberyAct.com guys, Barry Vitou and Richard Kovalevsky QC recently wrote about them. ...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Real Implications Of The Glaxo Enforcement Action In China

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The headlines get worse and worse. More companies under investigation....more

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