Bribery, Corporate Liability, Fraud

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

Why Corporates Are Now More Likely to Face Criminal Prosecution for the Actions of Their Employees

K&L Gates LLP on 11/21/2023

Significant Expansion to Corporate Criminal Liability Becomes Law in the United Kingdom - On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) became law. Under the Act, corporations will become...more

Corporate Criminal Liability – What is Next for the United Kingdom?

K&L Gates LLP on 8/4/2023

It is no great secret that criminal enforcement in the United Kingdom against corporations has lagged behind our counterparts in the United States and other jurisdictions. In recent years the UK government has introduced a...more

UK government proposes long-awaited reform to the identification doctrine for economic crime offences

Hogan Lovells on 6/28/2023

On 16 June 2023, the Government announced its proposed reforms to the “identification doctrine” for economic crime offences to be introduced in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. The reform will apply only to...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