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Understanding the Whistleblower Pilot Program in the Southern District of New York
Corporate Criminal Liability in South America
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New DOJ Guidance Tightens Corporate Enforcement Strategy
The Justice Insiders: Former U.S. Attorney General Barr Appears on The Justice Insiders
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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
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On 11 August 2025, HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") initiated its first corporate prosecution under the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offence, which was introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017. Bennett...more
On 18 August 2025, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced the updated version of the joint guidance in relation to the prosecution of corporate entities (the “Guidance”). The...more
The new strict liability corporate criminal offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF) comes into effect in England and Wales on 1 September 2025. ...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 UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 sets out two major reforms making it much easier for UK authorities to prosecute corporate wrongdoing: - it substantially increases the circumstances in which a company...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
Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team discusses the UK’s new guidance on the “failure to prevent fraud” offense. The guidance addresses the “failure to prevent fraud” offense created by the Economic...more
New criminal laws in the UK will make companies more vulnerable to criminal prosecution for the acts of their employees and agents than ever before. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“ECCTA”) introduces...more
Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more
The Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Nick Ephgrave QPM, delivered his maiden public speech on February, 13, 2024, closely followed by visits to key financial centres in the United States to meet with...more
Individuals continue to face risk from prosecutions for economic crime, despite media focus on corporate criminal liability reforms. Four individuals have today appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with fraud...more
On June 15, 2023, the UK Government announced that it would seek to introduce the biggest reform of corporate criminal liability in England and Wales for more than 50 years. ...more
There appears to be a bit of a lull in corporate prosecutions lately. The big banner cases tend to involve crypto firms rather than household names. There are a few significant settlements, such as in opioid cases, but we...more
On January 16, 2023, France’s financial prosecutor, the “Parquet National Financier” (PNF), issued updated guidance (the Guidelines) regarding its approach to offering, negotiating and entering into French deferred...more
When the UK government pushed the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act through Parliament at breakneck speed earlier this year, it always made clear that it had plans for a second, complimentary piece of...more
Thursday 13 October 2022 saw the second reading of the draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, containing a raft of different measures including new and expanded powers for Companies House, the SFO and the NCA....more
On 10 June, the Law Commission published its long awaited Options Paper, with proposals on reforming corporate criminal liability in England and Wales, following the launch of its discussion paper in June 2021...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
CEP Magazine (January 2021) - The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office published new guidance related to deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs). The guidance, nested in the office’s internal SFO Operational Handbook,...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
The SFO faced a challenging 2019, with some high-profile acquittals, dropped investigations and new cases which were widely perceived as relatively underwhelming. We look back at the last 12 months, and set out what might be...more
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
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
Five years ago, in the spring of 2014, Deferred Prosecution Agreements ('DPAs') were first introduced in the UK through the Crime and Courts Act 2013 ('CCA').1 Since then, the Serious Fraud Office ('SFO') has concluded four...more
Corruption Watch UK has claimed that “a company committing economic crime in the US is far more likely to be hit with criminal, civil and regulatory penalties than one in the UK.” In a hard-hitting report published on 5 March...more