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Corporate Criminal Responsibility Set for Reform in the UK: The Crime and Policing Bill

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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

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Designating Cartels as Terrorists: Potential Impact on U.S. Businesses

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On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order (EO 14157) that sets in motion the designation of certain cartels and transnational crime gangs as terrorist organizations. The President declared a...more

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Why Corporates Are Now More Likely to Face Criminal Prosecution for the Actions of Their Employees

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Significant Expansion to Corporate Criminal Liability Becomes Law in the United Kingdom - On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) became law. Under the Act, corporations will become...more

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Failure to Prevent Money Laundering

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On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published its long-awaited options paper on Corporate Criminal Liability (“the Paper”). The Paper discussed a “failure to prevent money laundering offence” (the “FTPML Offence”), but did...more

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Corporate Intelligence & Investigations

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Today’s modern world enables complex business transactions to occur both within the United States as well as abroad in cross-border activities. Many of these transactions pose significant risks to business operations and the...more

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Can Kicking and Buck Passing: Reform of Corporate Criminal Liability

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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

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White Collar Year in Preview: False Claims Act Trends in 2020

Editors’ Note: This is the fourth in our start-of-year series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Our previous entry discussed anti-corruption trends in 2020. Up next: a look...more

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Proposed reform of UK corporate criminal liability – a failure to grasp the nettle?

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Following mounting calls for reform of the UK's corporate criminal liability regime, the Government is expected to consult later this year on potential reforms, which are likely to include a new corporate offence of failing...more

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Financial crime and investigations update for UK corporates

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The law and practice relating to financial crime and investigations is evolving fast. In the past 18 months we have seen two new Acts aimed at combatting financial crime (including the creation of two new corporate criminal...more

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