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

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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Updated SFO Guidance: Familiar Framework, Sharper Focus—Timing Is Everything

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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

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The SFO, the Goose and the Golden Eggs: What the SFO’s New Guidance on DPAs Tells Us About the Prosecutor’s Approach to...

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On 23 October 2020, the SFO published a chapter from its Operational Handbook, including an expanded section on corporate co-operation, so as to give “comprehensive guidance” on the organisation’s approach to the use of...more

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SFO Corporate Co-operation Guidance – A flawed approach and a wasted opportunity

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The much heralded Corporate Co-operation Guidance published by the Serious Fraud Office recently offers little comfort to corporates struggling with the dilemma of whether to self-report wrongdoing. Instead it offers a...more

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SFO Director Highlights Difficulty of Securing Convictions

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Director of the Serious Fraud Office Lisa Osofsky used her annual Cambridge Symposium speech to emphasise the importance of international and corporate co-operation, to issue a call to arms for greater legislative assistance...more

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Co-operation or Capitulation? – What the SFO Corporate Co-operation Guidance really means

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Is there a point at which co-operation becomes capitulation? Is there a danger inherent in co-operating without the guarantee of a favourable outcome for doing so?...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office Issues Guidance for Corporate Cooperation

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On 6 August 2019, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) released Guidance on what it expects from organisations seeking cooperation credit in the agency’s investigations. The long-awaited Guidance is a codified and clarified...more

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