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Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
New guidelines governing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and enforcement effectively signal the official end of the proclaimed FCPA enforcement pause announced by President Trump earlier in the year, while...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The June 9 memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche instructs...more
DOJ’s new approach to FCPA enforcement presents some interesting opportunities — the headlines from the DOJ FCPA Guidance Memo will bring some significant changes but at the same time some things will not change. Here is my...more
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the resumption of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement, ending the enforcement pause initiated by Executive Order 14209. In doing so, Deputy Attorney...more
Key Points - - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will resume investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), prioritizing, in part, FCPA actions involving cartels and transnational...more
On June 9, 2025, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice issued “Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)” (the “Memorandum”). The Memorandum...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this special edition of our award-winning monthly Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments newsletter summarizes the most...more
Competition enforcers throughout the Americas focus their efforts to investigate and prosecute antitrust cartels: agreements between competitors to fix prices, rig bids, or allocate markets....more
On May 10, 2024, Romy Andrianarisoa, former Chief of Staff to the President of Madagascar, was convicted for soliciting bribes from Gemfields Group Ltd (Gemfields), a UK-based mining company specializing in rubies and...more
The Development: After an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities across the Asia-Pacific region have fully revived dawn raids....more
Over this series, I have reviewed the messages communicated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from three key Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions regarding...more
We asked our global white collar crime team for their views on key challenges in 2023 for in‑house investigations teams and white collar crime lawyers, and how to manage the associated risks. Here are their top ten....more
Ignoring integrity risks in emerging markets when receiving financing from the World Bank Group (WBG) is about to become much riskier, as the WBG Sanctions System Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) indicates. The...more
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco, in a speech on October 28, 2021 at the American Bar Association’s White-collar National Institute Summit in Miami, announced three new initiatives relating to the prosecution of...more
Lazaro Baez was recently sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering in Argentina, charges that connected him to political powers still at large in the country....more
Contrary to some expectations, the Trump Administration Department of Justice imposed record penalties under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act from 2017 through 2020. But in each of those years, fewer and fewer new FCPA...more
OFAC continues to aggressively enforce its sanctions programs. In its latest enforcement action, OFAC agreed with Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques SCRL (“SITA”), a Swiss telecom company, to an...more
Danske Bank is likely to again become the target of a formal investigation in France. A Paris court began investigating Danske Bank in October 2017 in relation to transactions of its Estonian branch, between 2008 and 2011,...more
The FCPA prohibits an offer, payment, promise or the authorization of a payment of money or anything of value (a/k/a bribery) to a foreign official for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business....more
In addition to enforcement actions, the Department of Justice’s (DOJs) 2016 FCPA Pilot Program, coupled with 2017’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (Evaluation) and the FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy, all...more
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought an FCPA enforcement action premised entirely on a one-time charitable contribution. On September 20, 2016, the SEC announced a settled FCPA...more
The enforcement action against manufacturer Nu Skin Enterprises highlights the risks of making charitable donations in high-risk countries without conducting meaningful anticorruption due diligence....more
In a rare enforcement action, the SEC settled an FCPA enforcement action for $766,000 for a charitable donation of $154,000 to improperly influence a high-ranking Chiese Communist party official to prevent a provincial agency...more
If you ask members of a corporate board or senior executives about the cost of an FCPA enforcement action, they will candidly acknowledge all of the costs – fines, penalties, and professional costs (e.g. legal, accounting,...more
In this episode, I review the corporate FCPA enforcement actions of 2013. ...more