Investigations, SFO

UK SFO: the ingredients of cooperation

A&O Shearman on 6/16/2025

The UK SFO’s new guidance on corporate cooperation makes clear that a company must show cooperation if it is to be invited to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). No change there. So what’s different in the new...more

Red Notice Newsletter - September 2018

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/2/2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - Petrobras Settles with U.S. Authorities Over Alleged FCPA Violations - On September 27, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

SFO v ENRC privilege ruling internal investigations

A&O Shearman on 5/21/2017

Enforcement authorities (both criminal and regulatory) have been taking an increasingly combative approach to claims to legal professional privilege in recent years. In Serious Fraud Office (SFO) v Eurasian Natural Resources...more

Investigations: notes of employee interviews not privileged

A&O Shearman on 1/25/2017

Lawyers' notes of interviews with a bank's employees conducted as part of two investigations were not privileged since the employees were not the "client" and the notes were not lawyers' working papers, according to the...more

"Cross-Border Investigations Update - June 2016"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/27/2016

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a look at recent cases and enforcement trends, including proposed amendments to China’s commercial bribery law, the use in U.S. courts of compelled...more

Where Else? JP Morgan Chase Investigation Into Hiring Practices Expands

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/5/2013

One of the most dreaded questions in any Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation is: Where Else? By this I mean that if you have a systemic failure of internal controls in one geographic area it may well be that...more