Anti-Corruption, Corporate Liability, UK

Updated SFO Guidance: Familiar Framework, Sharper Focus—Timing Is Everything

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/1/2025

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is raising the stakes. With the publication of new Co-operation and Enforcement Guidance on 24 April 2025, the agency is ramping up enforcement and clarifying expectations for corporate...more

Key Takeaways From the SFO’s New Corporate Guidance

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/28/2025

The updated guidance puts a heavy emphasis on self-reporting and clarifies how corporates under investigation can earn cooperation credit from UK prosecutors....more

The UK's Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/23/2025

Effective September 1, 2025, the UK’s Failure to Prevent Fraud offense will go into effect as part of the UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the ECCTA). The law significantly expands corporate liability...more

SFO’s Enforcement Strategy Focuses on Corporate Liability

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 4/2/2025

The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has a lot going for it right now: a director hellbent on tackling complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, an enhanced budget, new partnerships to tackle international bribery and corruption...more

Proposed EU Anti-Corruption Directive – how does it compare to the US and UK gold standard?

White & Case LLP on 5/18/2023

The European Commission has published a proposed Directive which, building on measures already in place, would require member states to incorporate uniform anti-bribery measures into their laws. Whilst most EU member states...more

Anti-Corruption Enforcement - 2021 Year in Review

Jenner & Block on 1/19/2022

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the change in presidential administrations in the United States in January 2021, US enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) declined in 2021. However, we...more

[Event] Anti-Corruption London - November 2nd - 3rd, London, United Kingdom

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 6/30/2021

C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more

The corporate hospitality Guidelines under the UK Bribery Act.

BCLP on 4/12/2019

This is the third in a series of articles in which members of BCLP’s White Collar team review the recent report of the House of Lords Select Committee’s, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”. Here we...more

Anti-Corruption Summit: Extending Corporate Liability for Economic Crimes?

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/17/2016

In a keynote address at the London Anti-Corruption Summit, Prime Minister David Cameron raised the possibility of new U.K. legislation to make corporations liable for “failure to prevent” fraud or money-laundering offenses...more

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