On June 10, 2025, the head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew Galeotti, declared in a speech that the DOJ would resume enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This announcement...more
On Feb. 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Two Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated Sept. 13, 2023 affirmed the Southern District of New York’s order compelling a partner at a law firm and the firm to...more
On Oct. 4, 2023, in remarks delivered to the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics’ 22nd Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute, Deputy Attorney General (AG) Lisa Monaco announced the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new...more
Earlier this month, at the American Bar Association’s (ABA) 38th National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. highlighted the...more
On Sept. 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco spoke at New York University Law School outlining the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) priorities and policies on corporate criminal enforcement....more
When Law No. 2016-1691 (Sapin II Law) created the convention judicaire d’intérêt public (CJIP), modeled after the American deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), it was feared that the existence of potentially dueling French...more
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On April 30, 2019, Brian A. Benczkowski, the assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the release of an updated version of the Criminal Division’s guidance for...more