On June 9, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued revised enforcement guidelines for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), officially ending the FCPA enforcement pause that Executive Order 14209 (EO) instituted...more
On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced revisions to key corporate criminal enforcement policies. The revisions’ stated aim is to provide more clarity and certainty of outcome to companies that...more
The United Kingdom (UK), France, and Switzerland announced on 20 March 2025 that they have jointly launched the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce to combat complex international white-collar crime. The...more
4/3/2025
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
France ,
Money Laundering ,
Popular ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Switzerland ,
UK ,
White Collar Crimes
As we welcome 2025, the year ahead promises to be a year of change. After more than 70 national elections in 2024, the dust hasn’t fully settled, not least in the United States, where President Trump has taken office for the...more
The 2024 American Bar Association White Collar Crime conference delivered crucial insights from artificial intelligence’s tantalizing promise to its looming threats, a focus on individual accountability, repercussions for...more
The American Bar Association’s annual white collar crime conference is often a favorite place for the U.S. Department of Justice to announce new policies and programs, and this year’s meeting in San Francisco was no...more
On October 28, 2021, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa O. Monaco gave the keynote address at the ABA’s 36th National Institute on White Collar Crime and announced a series of changes in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ)...more
There has been significant movement recently, by both the Biden Administration as well as Congress, to enhance the U.S. government’s ability to tackle corruption. This article provides a summary of those efforts and several...more
6/17/2021
/ AML/CFT ,
Anti-Corruption ,
BSA/AML ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corruption ,
Financial Crimes ,
Human Trafficking ,
Joint Task Force ,
National Security ,
Policy Statement ,
Smuggling ,
White Collar Crimes
The United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published comprehensive guidance on Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs). Lisa Osofsky, Director of the SFO, stated, “Over the past six years, we at SFO have been...more
On November 20, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced several subtle, but important, adjustments to its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Corporate Enforcement Policy. These recent changes relate to...more
Through our monthly ADG Insights series, we are pleased to share with you the top legal and political issues affecting the aerospace, defense, and government services (ADG) industry. Our ADG industry team monitors the latest...more
For the most part, 2018 will see countries do more to enforce their anti-bribery and corruption laws. How authorities plan to do this — from cooperating with foreign counterparts to adapting others' regimes — differs by...more
In recent years, U.S. and Western European military spending has decreased as military spending in other parts of the world has risen. As a result, aerospace, defense and government services (ADG) companies increasingly rely...more
4/13/2017
/ Aerospace ,
Alcoa ,
Alstom ,
Bribery ,
Cooperative Compliance Regime ,
Corruption ,
Defense Sector ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Pilot Programs ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Halliburton ,
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) ,
Och-Ziff ,
Odebrecht ,
Siemens ,
Teva Pharmaceuticals ,
VimpelCom ,
White Collar Crimes