2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 57 — The Tom on His Highhorse Edition
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
In the first FCPA declination under the Trump Administration, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company paid $4.7 million in disgorgement and received a declination letter from the Department of Justice. The declination reflects...more
On February 26, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision limiting the scope of an award of the “defendant’s profits” in trademark infringement suits under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1117(a), to only those...more
The Supreme Court on February 26, 2025, overturned a nearly $43 million award granted in a decades long trademark dispute between two real estate companies. The unanimous ruling emphasized that under the Lanham Act section...more
n a decision that strongly endorsed the principle of corporate separateness – where a company’s affiliates are not financially responsible for the legal obligations of their parent – the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously...more
On February 26, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., No. 23-900, a case concerning corporate separateness and disgorgement awards for Lanham Act trademark infringement....more
DOJ is pushing hard for voluntary disclosures and urging companies to take advantage of its Voluntary Disclosure Program. The carrot is significant — a declination in exchange for cooperation, remediation and disgorgement....more
On March 7th, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new whistleblower reward program intended to help prosecutors bring more foreign corruption cases. Under the new program, individuals who report corporate misconduct...more
On October 4, 2023, United States Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced a new Department of Justice (DOJ) Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor policy that encourages companies to self-disclose criminal misconduct...more
Last month, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced a new Safe Harbor Policy for voluntary self-disclosure (the “Policy”) made in connection with merger and acquisition activity. The Policy is intended to bring...more
On October 4, 2023, the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new “Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy” (“M&A Safe Harbor Policy” or “Policy”) for companies that voluntarily...more
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a new department-wide Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy that protects acquiring companies that self-disclose criminal misconduct discovered at an...more
It is one of the hardest questions a company can face: after discovering criminal conduct inside your company, do you self-report to the government or not? If you can quickly and quietly fix the problem, then you may be able...more
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco recently announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is adopting a new safe harbor policy to incentivize corporations to voluntarily self-disclose criminal misconduct discovered...more
In an important policy announcement aimed at rewarding robust due diligence and compliance programs, DOJ announced that acquiring companies that promptly and voluntarily disclose criminal misconduct discovered at the acquired...more
The Justice Department has been pushing its voluntary self-disclosure program and changes to its Corporate Enforcement Policy, in an attempt to increase FCPA enforcement cooperation. The Golden Ring for every company facing...more
On February 22, 2023, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that all 93 United States Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country are implementing, effective immediately, a Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (“Policy”) for...more
Earlier this month, DOJ updated its Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP). Aimed at encouraging companies to voluntarily disclose unlawful conduct, the updated CEP gives greater opportunities to companies to avoid charges...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
The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently released its enforcement statistics for fiscal year 2022. In this LawFlash, we discuss trends and takeaways on what was an active year for the Division of Enforcement....more
The government's focus on clawbacks is at a fever pitch. At the Practicing Law Institute's SEC Speaks conference earlier this month, senior officials within the SEC's Division of Enforcement emphasized the agency's increasing...more
The Justice Department continues its enforcement “silence” with no major corporate prosecutions announced this year. It is an interesting question but it appears that the wheels have ground to a halt, with one major...more
Cooperation is frequently touted as the “secret sauce” that can help an issuer or individual facing potentially harsh regulatory scrutiny and sanctions for wrongful conduct mitigate the resolution of the action. Different...more
On Nov. 23, the New York Court of Appeals held in a 6-1 ruling that an investment firm’s $140 million disgorgement payment to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was not a “penalt[y] imposed by law” under the firm’s...more
We're pleased to announce the launch of our podcast, KT Sound Bytes! Our first episode features Partner Adria Perez and Associate Jessica Nwokocha, with assistance from Summer Associate Davis Brooke Caswell, discussing the...more
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Liu v. SEC limited the SEC’s disgorgement power, it also left open certain complicated issues that are now subject to interpretation. As we previously summarized, in an 8–1 vote, the...more