Anti-Corruption, New Guidance, Deferred Prosecution Agreements

DOJ Criminal Division Revises Its Corporate Enforcement Policy, Monitor Selection Policy, and Whistleblower Award Program

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/2/2025

On May 12, 2025, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revised its Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP) and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Whistleblower...more

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

France & UK Continue Corporate Criminal Enforcement: SFO Issues New Corporate Guidance

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/1/2025

Foreign regulators continue to intensify their efforts to combat bribery and corruption. France’s Anti-Corruption Agency (L’Agence française anticorruption or AFA) recently published its year-in-review for 2024, which showed...more

Eye on Economic Crime: SFO Releases New Guidance on Corporate Cooperation and Enforcement

Mayer Brown on 4/29/2025

On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) launched new guidance for corporates on self-reporting, cooperation and deferred prosecution agreements (“DPAs”). Among other things, the new guidance states that, if a...more

[Webinar] 20/20 Hindsight: Anti-Corruption Developments in 2020 - December 9th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CST

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 12/3/2020

Learning Objectives: - Become familiar with the major FCPA cases of 2020 - Learn about the policy developments affecting corporate compliance programs from the DOJ this year - Catch up on key international developments in...more

Much-Awaited Clarifications on the French Deferred Prosecution Agreement

Latham & Watkins LLP on 8/21/2019

The French National Financial Prosecutor and the French Anticorruption Agency have released guidelines on the French deferred prosecution agreement, that offers a few welcome clarifications. After years of debate on the...more

Official Guidance Clarifies Eligibility Requirements for "French DPAs" in Corruption-Related Matters but Raises Key Questions -...

Jones Day on 8/16/2019

The Financial Public Prosecutor and the French Anticorruption Agency ("FAA") have recently adopted guidelines on the implementation of the "convention judiciaire d'intérêt public" ("CJIP"), the French version of a deferred...more

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