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Fenwick & West LLP

DOJ Unpauses FCPA Enforcement with New Limits

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On February 10, 2025, the president signed an executive order that paused investigation and enforcement of the FCPA for a period of 180 days, required the DOJ to review any existing FCPA investigation or prosecution, and to...more

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More Aggressive White Collar Enforcement Expected Under the Biden Administration

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The first 100 days of President Biden's administration, not least its appointments to key leadership positions, suggest that it will investigate and pursue white collar cases much more aggressively than the Trump...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

Return to Civil and Criminal Collaboration in White Collar under Biden Administration

Under the Biden Administration, we expect the Department of Justice to reinvigorate the policies aimed at increasing coordination between the criminal and civil divisions. In a 2015 Memorandum – the “Yates Memo” – former...more

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Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2020 Developments and Predictions for 2021

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As was true in many areas of the law, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement in 2020 - and anti-corruption enforcement more generally - was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps not as much as was initially...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Ericsson Agrees To Pay Over USD $1 Billion To Settle FCPA Charges

On December 6, 2019, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or the Company), resolved long-running investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

TechnipFMC FCPA Enforcement Action - Lessons for the Compliance Professional

The month of June, 2019, closed out one of the most interesting half-years in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) realm....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Health Care Enforcement Quarterly Roundup - Q4 | January 2019

This latest installment of the Health Care Enforcement Quarterly Roundup reflects on trends that persisted in 2018 and those emerging trends that will carry us into 2019 and beyond. Leading off with the US Department of...more

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert: Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2018 Developments and Predictions for 2019

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Despite predictions of a slow-down in enforcement under the Trump administration—and indications that enforcement in some areas has decreased in the past year1—2018 was yet again an active year for FCPA enforcement. The year...more

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Shift in DOJ Policy May Benefit Corporations and Individuals Under Investigation for Corporate Wrongdoing

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In a shift in policy, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced on November 29, 2018, that the DOJ would relax certain policies, dating back to 2015...more

Hogan Lovells

DOJ aims for good, not perfect: Our view of the updated corporate cooperation policy

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Government attorneys now have additional discretion in False Claims Act (FCA) civil cases to award cooperation credit to a corporation that meaningfully assists the government’s investigation without necessarily identifying...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

DOJ Announces More Lenient Corporate Cooperation Policy

In a speech delivered on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein described important changes to DOJ policies for awarding cooperation credit in corporate investigations. These changes have been...more

BakerHostetler

DOJ Takes Aim at Responsible Individuals in Corporate Investigations

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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates recently announced new instructions for attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), outlining in a memorandum the DOJ’s policies with respect to civil and criminal...more

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DOJ Reaffirms Commitment to Prosecuting Individuals, Toughens Expectation for Corporate Response

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued a memorandum ("The Yates memo") on September 9, 2015 by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, reaffirming the Government's commitment to prosecuting individuals. Say...more

Holland & Knight LLP

DOJ Targets Executives and Individuals in Corporate Investigations

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Responding to criticism stemming from a lack of individual prosecutions as a result of the financial crisis, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates has issued a new guidance memorandum establishing six new steps for federal...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

DOJ’s New White-Collar Policy Directs Prosecutors to Focus on Individual Accountability

On September 9, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates introduced a new policy aimed at aggressively prosecuting individuals for white-collar crimes. A product of a DOJ working group that started under former...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The DOJ’s New Policy of Prosecuting Individuals

On September 9, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Department”) issued a new policy memorandum (the “Yates Memo”) entitled “Individual Accountability for...more

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