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Understanding the DOJ's Recent Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes
Episode 340: DOJ Updates Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
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Understanding the Whistleblower Pilot Program in the Southern District of New York
Corporate Criminal Liability in South America
What DAG Lisa Monaco's Speech Means for Compliance Programs
New DOJ Guidance Tightens Corporate Enforcement Strategy
The Justice Insiders: Former U.S. Attorney General Barr Appears on The Justice Insiders
Digging Deeper Episode 10: Misguided or Misconduct? Understanding Bad Behavior in the Corporate World
WorldSmart: Policing International Corporate Crime as the World Recovers from COVID-19
Doing Business in the European Union | Anonymity & Keeping the Whistleblower's Identity Confidential
Doing Business in the European Union | Key Elements of the EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection
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Welcome to Season 2 of the award-winning Data Driven Compliance. In this new season, we will look at the new Failure to Prevent Fraud offense. Join host Tom Fox as we explore this new law and how to comply with it through the...more
Corporate criminal responsibility in the UK is poised for further reform as the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 (CPB) advances through Parliament. Currently through the House of Commons, and now in the House of Lords, the...more
The Serious Fraud Office’s evolving approach to corporate engagement took another step forward this month. On 12 June 2025, speaking at a London conference, the SFO’s Chief Investigator Michael Gallagher provided the...more
The Crime and Policing Bill 2025, published by the UK Government on February 25, 2025, proposes extending the new ‘senior manager’ test of corporate criminal attribution to all criminal offences, not just economic crime...more
Fraud is the most common offence in the UK, amounting to 41% of all crime. On 26 October 2023, the UK’s long-awaited Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 20232 (the Act) received Royal Assent, setting out...more
On 6 November 2024, the UK Government published the much-anticipated guidance on the new corporate offence of failure to prevent fraud (the “Guidance”). The failure to prevent fraud offence forms part of a huge shift in the...more
Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more
Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team examine the Crown Prosecution Service’s first deferred prosecution agreement and what it means for future enforcement....more
After a laborious passage through the United Kingdom Parliament, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) hailed...more
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) became law on 26 October 2023, having completed the legislative process and received Royal Assent. Part 2 of ECCTA introduces significant reforms to UK limited...more
What is new in the field of crimes pursuant to Legislative Decree 231, disturbed freedom of enchantment, environmental crimes and the practical implications for the Organisational Models of entities - On 9 October 2023,...more
The UK Government yesterday introduced a new corporate “failure to prevent fraud” offence into draft legislation, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (“the Bill”). This is a significant development in UK...more
In its second year, the Biden administration has made clear its prioritisation of white-collar prosecutions. This includes changes in policy and guidance, such as a renewed focus on individual accountability, an increased...more
The priorities will impact non-US companies who may face a US DOJ with a renewed emphasis on combating corporate crime. In a recent speech that has garnered significant attention, the Deputy Attorney General of the...more
In January 2017, the UK Government issued a consultation paper calling for evidence on reforming corporate criminal liability for economic crime. Nearly four years later, on 3 November 2020, the Government’s response was...more
Corporate criminal offences (CCOs) under Part 3 Criminal Finances Act 2017 (CFA) are increasingly coming under the spotlight of the UK tax authorities. In a 10 February 2020 press release published in response to a Freedom of...more
HMRC’s focus on organisations under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 for failure to prevent tax evasion is making steady progress. The revelation, in very broad terms, of the number of investigations and enquires that it is...more
Shakespeare’s observation that the “past is prologue” certainly applies to corporate criminal liability in the UK and France, as these jurisdictions embrace with gusto corporate prosecutions akin to those pursued in the US...more
Summary: Deferred prosecution agreements have been widely used by US prosecutors since the early 2000s. Prosecutors in the UK and France only obtained this power in 2014 and 2016 respectively – but they are making up for...more
Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, addressed the question, “Preventing...more