Anti-Corruption, New Legislation, Whistleblowers

Eye on Economic Crime: UK, Swiss and French International Anti-Corruption Taskforce

Mayer Brown on 4/11/2025

Summary - On 20 March 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”), France’s Parquet National Financier (“PNF”) and the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (“OAG”) affirmed their shared commitment to tackling...more

Top challenges for white collar crime and investigations lawyers in 2024

A&O Shearman on 1/26/2024

We asked our global white collar crime team for their views on the key challenges in 2024 for in‑house investigations teams and white collar crime lawyers, and how to manage the associated risks. Here is what they said. ...more

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert - Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2019 Developments and Predictions

WilmerHale on 1/30/2020

Enforcement activity reached new heights in 2019. The year saw the two largest corporate resolutions in the history of the FCPA, corporate penalties paid to US enforcement agencies topped last year’s record levels, and...more

Red Notice Newsletter - August 2017

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/2/2017

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - MTS Receives DOJ and SEC Declination Letters Concluding FCPA Investigations - On August 7, 2017, MTS Systems (MTS), a Minnesota based maker of test systems and industrial position...more

Focus on China - October 2015

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/29/2015

Welcome to the third issue of Focus on China Compliance for 2015. According to the FCPA Blog’s October 2015 Corporate Investigations List, China leads the countries reported to be involved in FCPA investigations with 29...more

Spain Sets a New Milestone with its Corporate Compliance Statute

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/28/2015

As of July 1 of this year, Spain becomes the latest in a string of nations with a corporate compliance defense. Article 33 of Spain’s criminal code will provide an exemption from corporate criminal liability where the company...more