Corruption, Cooperation, Self-Reporting

The Serious Fraud Office's Guidance on How to Best Avoid Prosecution

K&L Gates LLP on 5/9/2025

The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published updated guidance on how corporates can best avoid or reduce the risk of prosecution in cases involving economic crimes such as bribery, fraud and corruption...more

Feds Encourage Companies to Come Clean on Criminal Conduct and Reward Whistleblowers for Reporting Wrongdoing: Key Takeaways for...

Fisher Phillips on 3/29/2024

Federal prosecutors are exploring new ways to encourage business leaders to invest in their corporate compliance programs. Indeed, a Department of Justice official recently announced several new programs incentivizing...more

DOJ's Newly Revised Corporate Enforcement Policy Incentivizes Robust Compliance Programs, Cooperation and Remediation

BakerHostetler on 1/30/2023

On Jan. 17, AAG Polite announced “the first significant changes” to the CEP since 2017. The policy revisions will apply to all corporate criminal matters handled by the Criminal Division and offer companies “new, significant,...more

2019 Developments and Trends in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) & Global Anti-Corruption Efforts, Part 2 of 3

Butler Snow LLP on 9/10/2019

Previously, we introduced you to this topic and provided updates about the positive international trends in anti-corruption efforts, bribery, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Today, we...more

CFTC’s Enforcement Division Announces New Focus on Self-Reporting

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/5/2017

Upon discovering a potential violation, a company is often faced with the dilemma of whether to self-report the incident to its regulator or attempt to deal with the incident through exclusively internal means. On September...more

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s One-Year “Pilot Program” Nears The Halfway Mark

Snell & Wilmer on 9/15/2016

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) prohibits both United States and foreign corporations and nationals from offering or paying, or authorizing the offer or payment, of anything of value to a foreign government...more