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The Serious Fraud Office's Guidance on How to Best Avoid Prosecution

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The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published updated guidance on how corporates can best avoid or reduce the risk of prosecution in cases involving economic crimes such as bribery, fraud and corruption...more

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

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Serious Fraud Office Releases New Guidance on Self-Reporting, Cooperation and Deferred Prosecution Agreements

On 24 April 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) released new guidance on corporate self-reporting, cooperation and deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs)....more

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A step towards transparency or the devil is in the detail? Analysing the effectiveness of the SFO’s new Corporate Guidance

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More than a decade ago, the concept of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) became part of UK law. Ever since, there has been considerable uncertainty as to exactly what conditions a company needs to meet in order to be...more

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UK Serious Fraud Office Issues New Guidance on Corporate Cooperation and Enforcement

On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published new guidance for companies on cooperation and enforcement in relation to corporate criminal offending (Guidance). The Guidance outlines the SFO’s key...more

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Key Takeaways From the SFO’s New Corporate Guidance

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The updated guidance puts a heavy emphasis on self-reporting and clarifies how corporates under investigation can earn cooperation credit from UK prosecutors....more

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Decoding AFA’s Guide: A Comparison of Sponsorship and Charitable Donations in France, the US and the UK

On March 26, 2024, the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) published a guide on how to engage in corporate sponsorship and charitable donation activities while appropriately mitigating corruption risks (the Guide)...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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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

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UK SFO Releases Guidance on Corporate Cooperation Credit

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Guidance sets out the SFO’s expectations for investigations but leaves open questions, particularly for cross-border investigations. On 6 August 2019, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued its much-anticipated Corporate...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

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

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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Anti-Corruption Enforcement Webinar: 2018 in Review

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Anti-Corruption enforcement remained a top priority in France, the UK, and the US in 2018. Join our firm's Global Anti-Corruption Team as they explain and analyze these three countries' anti-corruption enforcement efforts and...more

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Dorsey Anti-Corruption Digest - April 2016

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Welcome to Dorsey & Whitney’s monthly Anti-Corruption Digest. In this digest, we draw together news of enforcement activity throughout the world and aim to reduce your information overload. Our London, Minneapolis, New York...more

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