Compliance into the Weeds: A Deep Dive into Cadence Design Systems’ Export Control Violations
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 1, 2025, The All AI Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
All Things Investigations – Navigating Secondary Tariffs with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
FCPA Compliance Report: The Impact of Secondary Tariffs on Global Trade with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 73 - Geopolitical Risk: Thai Tensions / Sanctions, Tariffs & FCPA Enforcement in Asia
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 71 – Crypto Fault Lines: Stablecoins, Meme Coins & the Fight for Clarity PLUS: Sanctions, Shell Companies & Fragmented Global Trade
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
Hot Topics in International Trade - Tariff Mitigation Strategies
Daily Compliance News: May 30, 2025, The Leissner Sentenced Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 70 – Lessons for Compliance from a Law Enforcement Career + Regional Geopolitical Risks in 2025 with Mark Nuttall and Steve Vickers
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Hot Topics in International Trade Terrified by Tariffs Braumiller Law
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 52 – The Big Jet Plane Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 10, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 6, 2025 the Made in China Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 5, 2025, The Washing Edition
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
On February 5, 2025, US Attorney General (AG), Pam Bondi, issued a memorandum entitled Total Elimination of Cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations, in which she provides new guidance to the Department of Justice...more
On January 30, 2024, Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2023. The 2023 CPI suggests there has been limited progress in the global fight against corruption, with TI...more
Commercial bribery enforcement also became more active, as the authorities marked the 30th anniversary of the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law. The revision of the PRC Anti-Espionage Law raised some concerns about national...more
After a long-running investigation, Koninklijke Philips (“Philips), a Dutch company, resolved FCPA violations in China by agreeing to pay the SEC $62 million. Philips is a global manufacturer of medical equipment....more
China’s anti-corruption laws have been stringent for many years. On 1 January 1980, the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC Criminal Law”) containing the criminal offences of bribery and corruption came...more
The SEC’s FCPA settlement with WPP for over $19.2 million provides a variety of bribery schemes in several high-risk venues. The schemes are instructive because they remind anti-corruption compliance professionals of the...more
China’s most recent amendment to its Criminal Law updates the sentencing framework for non-state functionaries charged with corruption. Under the current framework, non-state functionaries are subject to lighter sentences...more
We are the end of my multi-part exploration of the Herbalife Nutrition Ltd (Herbalife) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission...more
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd (Herbalife) recently concluded a long running Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Herbalife...more
As we look past the Herbalife FCPA settlement with DOJ and the SEC for $123 million to resolve FCPA bribery and books and records violations, we are reminded of the variety of foreign government touchpoints and FCPA risks....more
Herbalife’s FCPA settlement is another one for books – the wreckage left includes two criminal indictments for Chinese officials who may never be apprehended, along with $123 million in penalties....more
Herbalife’s bribery scheme in China stretched across the 28 provinces of China and even involved an Herbalife senior executive in its headquarters in Los Angeles, California. DOJ has indicted Yangling Li, aka Jerry Li, and...more
It looks like travel will now be shut down, at least through the end of April, if not longer for most US companies. This travel ban may well also include a ban on face-to-face gatherings of one or more persons. Of course that...more
We are pleased to present the seventh edition of Global Legal Insights – Bribery and Corruption. This book sets out the legal environment in relation to bribery and corruption enforcement in 28 countries and one region...more
Volatility’s the name of the game again, folks, and we have COVID-19 to thank. Just a day after markets jumped in response to central bank and Super Tuesday news, the dove again some 3% as virus-related fears took hold again....more
Last week, Airbus SE (Airbus) settled a long-standing corruption scandal by agreeing to enforcement actions in three countries; France, the United Kingdom and the US. The matter involved a massive, worldwide, long running...more
Almost every FCPA enforcement action contains important lessons learned in unraveling a bribery scheme. Airbus has three broad divisions: (1) Commercial Division; (2) Defense & Space Division; and (3) Helicopters...more
In today’s blog post, I want to look at some of the more unusual bribery schemes from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions in 2019. Some of these schemes were not unusual but they were accomplished with...more
Yesterday, I considered five Department of Justice (DOJ) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions. Today, I want to look at key FCPA enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)....more