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Second Circuit Decision Clarifies Scope of Honest Services Wire Fraud Statute

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On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in United States v. Lopez that foreign commercial bribery schemes fall within the ambit of the honest services wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. §...more

Cooley LLP

Money Laundering: The UK Supreme Court’s Decision in El-Khouri Changes Scope of Extraterritoriality Under POCA

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In the recent judgment in El-Khouri v. Government of the United States of America, a case concerning the operation of the double criminality rule in the context of extradition, the UK Supreme Court made a seminal ruling on...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

SEC vs. Philips: Expansion of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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In May 2023, a complex SEC law enforcement proceeding was concluded against Philips, a public Dutch medtech company. The proceeding concluded with a settlement, whereby Philips agreed to pay a fine of more than USD 62 million...more

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Cryo-currency? Hong Kong Court grants freezing injunction over bitcoins

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A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction freezing the assets of a French cryptocurrency trader in a dispute over what happened to bitcoins held in an insolvent trading platform. In Nico Constantijn Antonius Samara v Stive...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Global Voices: Beating Bribery – Best Practice in Ethics and Conduct on the Global Stage

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One of the biggest headaches for companies conducting business overseas still remains bribery and corruption. The grey area of what is deemed a fair gift, meal or payment against what might be constituted a bribe is a...more

A&O Shearman

FCPA Digest 2019 – Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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The January 2019 FCPA Digest is an invaluable compendium of all FCPA-related developments in 2018, including US foreign bribery proceedings and criminal prosecutions, DOJ foreign bribery civil actions, SEC actions, DOJ...more

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The United States' Danske Bank Investigation – This is Something Different

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Earlier this month, Danske Bank A/S – Denmark's largest bank – announced that the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") has initiated a criminal investigation relating to the bank's Estonian branch....more

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OSC Affirms Breadth of Inter-Jurisdictional Enforcement Power, Limits on Sanctions in Conrad Black Case

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The recent decision in Re Conrad M. Black et al. illustrates how the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) will use its inter-jurisdictional enforcement authority to impose sanctions relating to conduct in other jurisdictions...more

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