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Enforcement Actions Export Controls Government Investigations

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

$140M US Export Controls Enforcement Action for ‘Reason to Know, Including Awareness of a High Probability’ Violations

On July 28, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) jointly announced resolutions of parallel criminal and administrative...more

The Volkov Law Group

Life Sciences Company Escapes Criminal Charges for Employee’s Illegal Export Scheme

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Sigma-Aldrich, Inc., d/b/a MilliporeSigma (“MilliporeSigma”), a U.S. life sciences company based in Massachusetts, escaped criminal charges for export control violations, despite a former sales person’s scheme to illegally...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New U.S. Sanctions Penalties Spotlight Sanctions and Export Controls Scrutiny of False and Incomplete Statements

• On August 8, OFAC issued Findings of Violation to two U.S. companies in relation to administrative subpoenas with follow-up responses deemed by OFAC to be inaccurate or incomplete. • These recent actions build upon a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - February 2016

DOJ and SEC Announce Settlement with PTC, Inc. in FCPA Case Involving SEC’s First Individual Deferred Prosecution Agreement - On February 16, 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S....more

K&L Gates LLP

A Stern Reminder from U.S. v. Fokker: The Execution of a Corporate Deferred Prosecution Agreement May Not Be the End of a...

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A phenomenon virtually foreign to the 20th Century, the use of pre-plea agreements by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), typically in the form of a deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) (or a non-prosecution agreement...more

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