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The guidelines confirm that FCPA enforcement will continue but provide opportunities for foreign authorities to lead where US interests are not significantly impacted....more
Cross-jurisdiction cooperation in the fight against international corruption and bribery is intensifying. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), and Switzerland’s Office of...more
On 17 April, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged a UK-based insurance company, United Insurance Brokers Limited (UIB) with ‘failure to prevent bribery’ in connection with its international reinsurance activity in...more
The United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland recently issued a founding statement to establish a new anti-corruption prosecutorial taskforce—an international move that could be seen as a response to the United States’ pause on...more
Nick Ephgrave QPM, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”), recently marked the end of his first year in office. Ephgrave has brought a renewed energy, sense of purpose and proactive approach to the SFO, opening six...more
Construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, contributing between 5 and 7 percent of GDP in most countries. However, it is also an industry that is highly vulnerable to corruption due to its inherent characteristics....more
Following an intense and lengthy period of speculation, on 8 February 2023 the UK Government confirmed the introduction of a new “failure to prevent” corporate criminal offence. The new offence will be introduced by way of...more
Jonathan Armstrong and I return for another episode of the award-winning Life with GDPR. This episode discusses the recent ABB Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolution. Jonathan considers the ABB enforcement action from the...more
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently released its 2021-2022 Annual Report. The report highlights major successes for the SFO along with key challenges the prosecutor needs to tackle going forward....more
On 24 May 2022, Glencore International AG announced a series of coordinated resolutions with various international enforcements agencies including the Department of Justice (”DOJ”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to...more
Recent Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) show the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) scrutinising companies’ compliance programmes. All of the companies which entered into DPAs relating to bribery had anti-bribery and...more
On 1 July 2021, the UK Bribery Act (the Act) – one of the world’s global bribery and corruption benchmark laws – turns 10. It’s been an eventful 10 years: the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Act’s primary enforcement agency,...more
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
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations, and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any of these...more
The SFO has concluded a deferred prosecution agreement with Airline Services Limited (ASL), a UK supplier of aircraft cabin parts and services, for failure to prevent bribery under s7 Bribery Act 2010. Despite the company...more
In late January 2020, Airbus agreed to pay nearly $4 billion and to take a number of remedial measures in order to resolve alleged corruption violations with the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), the United...more
On 14 March 2019, the Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010 published its Report in which it makes a number of conclusions and recommendations. The Committee was given the task not only of conducting post-legislative...more
The recent conviction of UK company Skansen Interiors Limited (SIL), for the corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery has caused controversy. This is the first conviction under S7 of the Bribery Act after a contested...more
The European concern Airbus has been in the news recently for corruption issues. According to an article in the Financial Times (FT), entitled “Airbus sued by middlemen fired following fraud inquiry”, its annual report lists...more
After years of fits and starts, and promises and disappointments, the Serious Fraud Office and the UK Bribery Act made its initial splash on the anti-corruption enforcement landscape. Since 2011, companies have been...more
Allegations of corporate bribery and corruption are increasingly frequent. According to a recent report by PwC, the World Bank estimates that more than $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year and 55 percent of global CEOs...more
I continue my exploration of anti-corruption enforcement with a slight detour across the pond to visit the recent Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) awarded in the UK Crown Court at Southwark, entitled Redacted Approved...more
Lord Justice Leveson has approved the Serious Fraud Office’s (“SFO’s”) second application for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”). The Agreement is with a company which cannot be named because of continuing related legal...more
This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a look at recent cases and enforcement trends, including proposed amendments to China’s commercial bribery law, the use in U.S. courts of compelled...more