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J.S. Held

INDEPTH FEATURE: Corporate Fraud & Corruption 2024

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To what extent are boards and senior executives in your country of focus taking proactive steps to reduce incidences of fraud and corruption from surfacing within their company? Over the past several years, there has been...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Variable Remuneration and Ethical Behavior: A Toolkit for Companies

Governmental authorities in the U.K. and the U.S. want companies to align employment incentives with ethical conduct. In 2022, the U.K. government undertook a consultation on this topic and in May 2022 published a paper —...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

In the Year of the Rabbit, the DOJ Dangles More Carrots to Incentivize Self-Disclosure and Cooperation

Whenever a company detects criminal misconduct, it is faced with the difficult decision of whether to self-disclose the misconduct to the federal government. In an attempt to help nudge companies towards cooperation, the U.S....more

Paul Hastings LLP

[Webinar] Recent Trends in the U.S. Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigations - September 8th, 9:00 am - 10:00...

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Discussion with two former senior prosecutors on how to handle cases involving Japanese multinational corporations - It is not unusual for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate non-U.S. multinational corporations...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Attorney General Garland Announces Renewed and Expanded Focus on Prosecuting Corporate Crime and Executives

On March 3, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland delivered remarks to the ABA's National Institute on White Collar Crime. In his speech, Attorney General Garland made it clear one of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) top...more

Morgan Lewis

DOJ's Antitrust Division Convicts Seventh Foreign Executive Following Extradition Proceedings

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The latest extradition of a foreign executive highlights ongoing efforts by the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division to arrest foreign executives abroad in order to face charges in the United States....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Assistant AG Provides Clarity on FCPA Self-Disclosure Credit

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Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski’s remarks provide important guidance for management and boards, and underscore the US Department of Justice’s commitment to prosecuting individuals for corporate misconduct....more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Cardiac Arrest: A CEO’s Story of Criminal Jeopardy

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When an executive becomes embroiled in a dispute with an employer, the executive tends to take it personally. And when the executive’s conflict is with the government, the executive’s sense of outrage ratchets up even more....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Hallmark 1 – Commitment from Senior Management and a Clearly Articulated Policy Against Corruption

Over the next two weeks I will be revisiting the Ten Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance program, as laid out in the 2012 A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA Guidance) authored by the Criminal...more

Troutman Pepper

The Spring Meeting Confronts the Yates Memo: Execs in the Front Lines of Corporate Criminal Responsibility; Presentation of the...

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The Business Law Section’s Director and Officer Liability Committee conducted a program at the Section’s Spring Meeting in Montréal. The program focused on the recent Yates memorandum of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),...more

Bracewell LLP

DOJ: Companies, Serve Up Your Executives!

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On September 9, 2015, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued an internal memorandum regarding individual accountability for corporate wrongdoing. The memo, authored by Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates, is aimed...more

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