Anti-Corruption, Criminal Liability, Deferred Prosecution Agreements

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

DOJ CCO Certification Requirement Will Up the Ante of CCO Oversight

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 8/9/2022

Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice have portended a sea change in the oversight responsibilities of chief compliance officers (CCOs) as it concerns corporate resolutions going forward. In public remarks made March...more

Bribery Act 2010: Ten Years On

WilmerHale on 5/25/2021

Ten years have passed since the introduction of the UK’s primary anti-corruption law, the Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”). This article examines the extent to which the Act has lived up to its billing as the international “gold...more

The Future Direction of Corporate Criminal Responsibility in Australia

Jones Day on 10/12/2020

On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission's Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in Parliament. The Final Report makes significant recommendations for reform of corporate criminal...more

Changes Ahead for Australia’s Corporate Criminal Liability Regime

Jones Day on 11/21/2019

The Situation: At the direction of the Attorney General of Australia, the Australian Law Reform Commission ("ALRC") is undertaking a comprehensive review of Australia's Commonwealth corporate criminal liability regime. The...more

Les premières lignes directrices communes PNF/AFA

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 8/15/2019

Lorsque la loi n° 2016-1691 du 9 décembre 2016 (« Loi Sapin II ») a créé la convention judicaire d’intérêt public (« CJIP ») sur le modèle des transactions pénales américaines (Deferred Prosecution Agreement ou « DPA »), on a...more

France Takes Next Step in Anticorruption Enforcement: First "French DPAs" and What Companies Should Know

Jones Day on 4/30/2018

The Situation: Anticorruption legislation passed by French lawmakers in 2016 authorizes the resolution of a corruption matter by means of a "convention judiciaire d'intérêt public" ("CJIP"), the French version of a deferred...more

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