Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Compliance Tip of the Day: AI and 3rd Party Risk Management
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
Essential Steps to Sell Your Business
FCPA Compliance Report: Stay the Course: Ellen Lafferty on Navigating Anti-Corruption Compliance in 2025
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Risk New York Speaker Series: AI Investments and Political Uncertainty with Chris Mason
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 71 – Crypto Fault Lines: Stablecoins, Meme Coins & the Fight for Clarity PLUS: Sanctions, Shell Companies & Fragmented Global Trade
Episode 373 -- Christian Focacci on Current Developments in AI and Risk Management
Podcast - A Comparative Guide to Obtaining an FCL: DCSA vs. the Intelligence Community
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls in International Operations
Compliance in the Former Soviet Central Asian Republics
On 14 July 2025, the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office released important sanctions guidance aimed specifically at non-UK companies operating outside the United Kingdom, with a special focus on...more
As NATO procurement expands, Nordic companies must carefully navigate the intersection between NATO acquisition processes and multiple export control regimes, including those of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the...more
On March 20, 2025, the U.K.’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) announced that, in accordance with section 146 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (PACA), a monetary penalty of £465,000 had been imposed...more
A number of jurisdictions globally are enhancing their supply chain-related regulations. The European Union’s latest regulation in this respect, the EU Forced Labour Regulation (FLR), was adopted on 19 November 2024. The FLR...more
As the war continues to rage on the Eastern front between Russia and Ukraine, the financial sanctions resulting from the initial invasions and ongoing conflict seem likely to continue to play a significant part in the global...more
Although the European Union and the United Kingdom did not introduce new sanctions against Russia over the summer, they extensively focused on the implementation of the existing measures and their enforcement. This week,...more
At the end of last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a guilty plea for wage fixing, resulting in its first criminal conviction with Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter saying: “[t]oday’s guilty plea...more
NatWest pleaded guilty on Thursday 7 October 2021 to criminal charges brought by the UK financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”). The FCA had charged NatWest with failing to properly monitor...more
In a recent update to its internal guidance, the UK Serious Fraud Office provides insight into the general approach its investigators may take for evaluating organizations’ compliance programs—an approach similar to that of...more
Recent UK enforcement actions highlight the risks to companies of relying on third-party providers to obtain marketing consents from individuals on their behalf. A claims management company has been separately fined by both...more
The UK Information Commissioner's Office announced more than £280 million of fines last week, in connection with data protection breaches. It singled out the perceived failure of buyers to conduct proper data protection due...more
Proposed changes to corporate criminal offending should cause corporate dealmakers to review the scope of acquisition diligence, particularly in light of the UK Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO’s) increasing use of deferred...more
The first FCPA enforcement action for 2017 landed with very little fanfare. The SEC reached a settlement with Mondelez International for $13 million. The facts surround the hiring of an agent in India and the failure of...more
Conflicts and investment fund fraud cases were the focus this week. The SEC brought two actions in each category. In addition, a settled insider trading action was filed....more
U.K. regulators have started 2015 with a bang, promising increased cooperation among regulatory agencies, and tougher enforcement of financial crimes, with an emphasis on anti-bribery and corruption efforts....more