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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

White & Case LLP

SFO expands its collaborative remit

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The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") is in a robust, and collaborative, mood. Three months after jointly announcing the formation of a new International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce (the "Taskforce"), the UK's premier...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

DOJ Issues New FCPA Guidelines Amid Growing Ambitions of UK and European Prosecutors

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The guidelines confirm that FCPA enforcement will continue but provide opportunities for foreign authorities to lead where US interests are not significantly impacted....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for April 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you the compliance professional and the compliance stories you need to...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

France & UK Continue Corporate Criminal Enforcement: SFO Issues New Corporate Guidance

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Foreign regulators continue to intensify their efforts to combat bribery and corruption. France’s Anti-Corruption Agency (L’Agence française anticorruption or AFA) recently published its year-in-review for 2024, which showed...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

New Case May Test the UK Bribery Act's 'Adequate Procedures' Defence

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On 17 April, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged a UK-based insurance company, United Insurance Brokers Limited (UIB) with ‘failure to prevent bribery’ in connection with its international reinsurance activity in...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: The Case for Compliance: The SFO Gives Businesses More Reasons to Continue Investing in Their Compliance Programs

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In our client alert, “The Case for Compliance: Why UK and EU Businesses Should Continue to Invest in Their Compliance Programs”, we highlighted seven reasons why, despite the US’ pause on bribery enforcement under the Foreign...more

Hogan Lovells

The new enforcement avengers? The UK, France, and Switzerland enforcement Taskforce: Local regulators join forces against global...

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The United Kingdom (UK), France, and Switzerland announced on 20 March 2025 that they have jointly launched the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce to combat complex international white-collar crime. The...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

SFO’s Enforcement Strategy Focuses on Corporate Liability

The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has a lot going for it right now: a director hellbent on tackling complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, an enhanced budget, new partnerships to tackle international bribery and corruption...more

Jones Day

The UK, France, and Switzerland Form New Anti-Corruption Enforcement Task Force

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On March 20, 2025, the UK's Serious Fraud Office ("SFO"), France's National Financial Prosecutor's Office ("PNF"), and the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland ("OAG") announced the creation of a new task force to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership

The award winning, Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. Looking for some hard-hitting...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

Anticorruption and FCPA Enforcement: Takeaways and Lessons Heading into 2025

This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

2024 in Review: Key Anticorruption Developments in the EU and France, with insights for 2025

This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for February 2024

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for September 2022

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Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and case developments from the past month,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments For February 2021

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The UK Serious Fraud Office’s Extraterritorial Powers Are Clarified

After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“SFO”) powers to obtain documents  located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] Corporate Compliance Enforcement Conference - February 23rd, 8:55 am - 4:15 pm CST

New for 2021! This one-day virtual conference will enable you to hear directly from the enforcement community both in the U.S. and globally. Learn the expectations of prosecutors to adjust and improve the effectiveness of...more

A&O Shearman

Woefully inadequate anti-bribery measures lead to deferred prosecution agreement for aircraft refurbishment company

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The SFO has concluded a deferred prosecution agreement with Airline Services Limited (ASL), a UK supplier of aircraft cabin parts and services, for failure to prevent bribery under s7 Bribery Act 2010.  Despite the company...more

Jones Day

The French Anti-Corruption Agency Publishes Its 2019 Annual Activity Report

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The French Anti-Corruption Agency ("FAA") report details key statistics relating to the controls the FAA carried out in 2019 and lessons to be drawn from this activity. On 9 July 2020, the FAA published its 2019 annual...more

A&O Shearman

FCPA Digest - Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - July 2020

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In the first half of 2020, the overall number of corporate enforcement actions dropped somewhat from recent years, with only six actions brought by the DOJ and SEC. The number of individual enforcement actions dropped as...more

Morgan Lewis

UK Serious Fraud Office Emphasizes Importance of Compliance Programs

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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

A&O Shearman

FCPA Digest - Recent Trends And Patterns In The Enforcement Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - January 2020

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In 2019, the overall number of corporate enforcement actions was slightly higher than in 2018, with twenty-five actions brought, compared to twenty-four in 2018. The number of individuals charged, using our parameters,...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.06.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Prices Shares at High-end of Range That Would Value Company at $1.7 trillion

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Saudi Aramco has priced its offering at the high end of its range, setting the company up to raise more than $25 billion and value the company at nearly $1.7 trillion—all part of what promises to make this the world’s biggest...more

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