On April 24, 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) released new guidance to encourage companies to self-report suspected corporate wrongdoing. The guidance emphasises that prompt self-reporting combined with full...more
On 24 April 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new guidance to encourage companies to self-report suspected corporate wrongdoing. The guidance states that self-reporting, combined with full cooperation with the...more
Companies faced with the decision of whether to voluntarily self-report sanctions breaches to law enforcement or sanctions enforcement agencies in the UK and the US can take some measure of comfort from recent comments made...more
10/16/2023
/ Compliance ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Export Controls ,
Good Faith ,
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Sanction Violations ,
Self-Reporting ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
U.S. Treasury ,
UK ,
Voluntary Disclosure
Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, addressed the question, “Preventing...more
9/20/2017
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Criminal Fines ,
Corporate Liability ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Financial Action Task Force ,
Financial Crimes ,
HM Treasury ,
Law Enforcement ,
Self-Reporting ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
The approval of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and XYZ Limited (XYZ) by Leveson LJ on 8 July 2016 has generated much breathless commentary, not least because it is only the...more
7/19/2016
/ Anonymity ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Internal Investigations ,
Popular ,
Self-Reporting ,
Sentencing ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
More carrot, less stick?
On 5 April 2016, the Fraud Section of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division issued an Enforcement Plan and Guidance (the DOJ Guidance), setting out the steps that it is taking to...more
4/27/2016
/ Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Cooperation ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Declination ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Public Interest ,
Remediation ,
Self-Reporting ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
Yates Memorandum