Daily Compliance News: August 6, 2025, The Spanking Banks Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating Corporate Scandals: Insights on Governance, Compliance, and Recovery with Steve Vincze
FCPA Compliance Report: 10 Core Principles for Effective Internal Investigations with Michelle Peirce
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 23, 2025 the Pardon in the Wind? Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
Daily Compliance News: July 10, 2025, The Loyalty Oath Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 13, 2025. The All Boeing Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels: The Sign of Four – Applying Sherlock Holmes’ Methods to Modern Corporate Compliance
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 53 – The AI as a Whistleblower Edition
Great Women in Compliance: From Hotline to Headline: The DOJ’s Whistleblower Awards Reboot with Mary Inman and Liz Soltan
By now, most corporate compliance and ethics officers are aware of the Trump administration’s shift in priorities. Specifically, the shifts in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement....more
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum on June 9 (the Memo), announcing DOJ will resume enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) after its brief hiatus....more
The Department of Justice’s Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against White-Collar Crime memorandum released on May 12, 2025, signals a shift in DOJ corporate criminal enforcement. The memorandum signals a shift...more
On May 12, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, issued a new policy memorandum entitled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against...more
On May 12, 2025, Matthew Galeotti, Head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, unveiled a comprehensive white collar enforcement strategy titled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against...more
DOJ recently announced white-collar crime enforcement priorities and significant changes to its corporate enforcement policies (here and here). “[O]verbroad and unchecked corporate and white-collar enforcement burdens U.S....more
On May 12, 2025, Matthew Galeotti, the Head of the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice ("DOJ") issued a new white collar enforcement plan (“Enforcement Plan”) titled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight...more
One of the most notable developments in the anti-corruption world is the Trump Administration’s Feb. 10 Executive Order, “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement To Further American Economic and National Security.” ...more
The landscape of criminal prosecution of foreign bribery has shifted, and the second Trump administration has made its priorities clear; however, companies still have 950 million reasons and counting to strengthen their...more
The executive order halts new and existing foreign bribery investigations — but enforcement risk in the UK and Europe remains. On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Pausing Foreign...more
Businesses today must navigate an intricate web of policies, regulations, and enforcement actions that demand not only vigilance but a proactive stance toward transparency and cooperation....more
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice issued updated Guidance in November on the evaluation of corporate compliance programs in criminal antitrust investigations. The 2024 Compliance Guidance continues to...more
Whistleblower programs are the gifts that keep giving to enforcement agencies, driving a record number of cases, sanctions and awards across multiple agencies. In this ninth installment of Season's Readings, we revisit some...more
On September 23, 2024, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri announced updates to the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) guidance relative to its Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business...more
During the American Bar Association’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime, the most senior executives of the DOJ (Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco) delivered remarks...more
Last week Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will soon begin a pilot program to reward whistleblowers who alert prosecutors to significant corporate misconduct. The goal of...more
At last week’s ABA National White Collar Crime Institute, the leadership of the Department of Justice (the DOJ or the Department), including Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, made clear...more
Holland & Knight, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2023 Florida Enforcement Summit on Oct. 18, 2023. The half-day program focused on current...more
As part of a recent series of announcements regarding updates to its corporate compliance policies, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced significant revisions to its evaluation criteria for corporate compliance programs,...more
Monaco’s and Polite’s remarks, and the DOJ’s new policies and guidance, come amid the Department’s increasingly tough on corporate crime approach and emphasis on rewarding companies that have effective compliance programs...more
On February 22, 2023, the US Department of Justice issued a nationwide policy for all US Attorney’s Offices (USAOs) outlining the circumstances in which a company may receive credit for voluntary self-disclosure (VSD)....more
The U.S. Attorney's Offices (USAOs) Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy, announced on Feb. 22, 2023, sets forth a nationwide standard for how USAOs will define and credit corporate self-disclosures of misconduct by employees or...more
Companies that self-disclose, cooperate, and remediate could benefit from significantly reduced fines and possible declinations even in cases with aggravating factors. In a speech at Georgetown University Law Center on...more
On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Kenneth A. Polite Jr. announced significant revisions to the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy (“CEP”). Four months...more
On January 17, 2023, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. (AAG Polite) announced changes to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP). The CEP, which applies to all Criminal...more