Anti-Corruption, Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Corporate Crimes

The SFO’s prevention partnership with UK PLC: Balancing collaboration and enforcement

Hogan Lovells on 6/25/2025

The Serious Fraud Office’s evolving approach to corporate engagement took another step forward this month. On 12 June 2025, speaking at a London conference, the SFO’s Chief Investigator Michael Gallagher provided the...more

UK Serious Fraud Office Issues Significant New Guidance on Corporate Self-Reporting – What It Means for Your Business

McDermott Will & Schulte on 5/1/2025

On 24 April 2025, the SFO published new guidance1 for companies in relation to self-reporting, co-operation, and when they can expect to be invited to engage in negotiations for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) as an...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

Client Alert: The Case for Compliance: The SFO Gives Businesses More Reasons to Continue Investing in Their Compliance Programs

Jenner & Block on 4/9/2025

In our client alert, “The Case for Compliance: Why UK and EU Businesses Should Continue to Invest in Their Compliance Programs”, we highlighted seven reasons why, despite the US’ pause on bribery enforcement under the Foreign...more

New economic crime and corporate transparency bill: All bark and no bite?

Hogan Lovells on 10/19/2022

Thursday 13 October 2022 saw the second reading of the draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, containing a raft of different measures including new and expanded powers for Companies House, the SFO and the NCA....more

What enforcement tools are in the armoury of prosecutors in the US, UK and France?

BCLP on 4/13/2018

Summary: Deferred prosecution agreements have been widely used by US prosecutors since the early 2000s. Prosecutors in the UK and France only obtained this power in 2014 and 2016 respectively – but they are making up for...more