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Baker Botts L.L.P.

Beyond the Fine: Fracht’s $1.6M Sanctions Lesson in Urgency

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Intermediaries in global trade, such as freight forwarders and logistics providers, are linchpins of international commerce. They face the commercial pressure to act with speed and flexibility to meet urgent client demands...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

SEC Intensifies Scrutiny of Chief Compliance Officers

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Two recent SEC enforcement actions serve as a sharp reminder that Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) can face personal liability for what they do – or fail to do – in the course of regulatory examinations for registered...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Compliance, Project Management, and Process Improvement

Krista Muszak is organized. More importantly, the longtime compliance professional and Senior Manager, Regional Process & Optimization Lead for Pfizer knows how to keep others organized as well. She will be sharing some of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Main Justice Launches a 90-Day “Policy Sprint” to Launch a Whistleblower Rewards Program

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On March 7, 2024, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the launch of a 90-day sprint to develop and implement a pilot program for DOJ’s latest “carrot” to incentivize companies to invest in a culture of compliance: a...more

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

The Coming Sea Change in California Privacy Requirements

Recent and Upcoming Rules Announcements Mark Turning Point for Businesses Now Obligated to "Minimize" Data Use - The California Privacy Protection Agency approved its first round of “final” implementing regulations under...more

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OFCCP’s Scheduling List Targets Contractors That Didn’t Certify in OFCCP’s Contractor Portal

On January 20, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) identifying 500 establishments of federal supply and service contractors and...more

WilmerHale

DOJ Announces Updates to Corporate Enforcement Policy

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Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. Announces Changes to Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy - On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Event] 11th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute - March 20th - 22nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands

In-person is back! Join us in Amsterdam for the 2023 European Compliance & Ethics Institute! Strengthen your compliance and ethics program by attending our 11th annual European Compliance and Ethics Institute, 20-22 March...more

Polsinelli

DOJ’s New Settlement Policy Demonstrates Increased Focus on Robust Compliance Programs

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On Wednesday, Assistant Chief of DOJ Fraud Section’s Corporate Enforcement, Compliance, and Policy Unit, Lauren Kootman, confirmed the Department’s new policy of having chief compliance officers certify settlement agreements...more

Morgan Lewis

DOJ Updates Corporate Compliance Evaluation Guidance: New Refinements Stress that Programs Need to be 'Empowered to Function...

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The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Criminal Division published an update on June 1 to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance, which is used by its prosecutors to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

COVID-19 Update: Are You For Real? Due Diligence in the Age of Coronavirus

In the context of COVID-19, there are significant challenges involved in conducting due diligence: hard-copy documents are inaccessible, in-person meetings have moved online, and on-site visits may be impossible....more

Morgan Lewis

UK Serious Fraud Office Emphasizes Importance of Compliance Programs

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In a recent update to its internal guidance, the UK Serious Fraud Office provides insight into the general approach its investigators may take for evaluating organizations’ compliance programs—an approach similar to that of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Top SEC Enforcement Actions from 2019

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

Jones Day

Anti-Corruption Regulation Survey of 42 Countries 2019

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Welcome to the 2019 edition of the Jones Day Anti-Corruption Regulation Survey of Select Countries. Since the 2017–2018 edition of this Survey, there has continued to be an increasing awareness among multinational companies...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Another Caremark Duty-to-Monitor Suit Survives Motion to Dismiss in Delaware

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Delaware Chancery Court’s October 1 In re Clovis decision marks the second time in 2019 that a Delaware court has permitted a Caremark duty-to-monitor derivative claim against directors—considered...more

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance...

OFCCP Sets New Record For Bias Settlements In FY19

Any illusions that OFCCP would disappear during the Trump Administration should have already been put to rest with the nearly non-stop activity of the agency since 2017.  But to the extent there was any remaining doubt, a...more

The Volkov Law Group

Delaware Court Increases Scrutiny of Corporate Board Oversight and Monitoring of Compliance Programs

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On October 1, 2019, in In re Clovis Oncology, Inc. Derivative Litigation, a Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims under the Caremark decision against individual directors for failing to...more

Jones Day

Germany’s "Corporate Sanctions Act": The Path to Corporate Criminal Liability

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The Situation: On August 22, 2019, the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection presented the draft Corporate Sanctions Act ("CSA"), a bill that would establish corporate criminal liability in Germany. The...more

Orrick - Antitrust Watch

DOJ Changes Course and Announces That It Will Favorably Consider “Robust” Antitrust Compliance Programs at Both the Charging and...

Benjamin Franklin once observed that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In the antitrust context, this means that most, if not all, companies will want as a matter of course to adopt and maintain an antitrust...more

The Volkov Law Group

A Closer Look at ISO 37001 – Something Old or Something New? (Part I of V)

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The release of ISO 37001 has triggered an important discussion among legal and compliance professionals. In a five-part series, I plan to address the value of ISO 37001, provide a substantive analysis, and to evaluate the...more

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