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LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
Podcast - Navigating the Updated SF-328 Form
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
Foreign Correspondent Podcast | The America First Investment Policy and What it Means for Investors
Podcast - A Comparative Guide to Obtaining an FCL: DCSA vs. the Intelligence Community
CHPS Podcast Episode 4: Tariffs and Trade Impact
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 70 – Lessons for Compliance from a Law Enforcement Career + Regional Geopolitical Risks in 2025 with Mark Nuttall and Steve Vickers
SBR-Author’s Podcast: The Unseen Life of an Undercover Agent: A Conversation with Charlie Spillers
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
All Things Investigations: Task Force Strategies - Addressing New Government Priorities
Wiley's 2025 Key Trade Developments Series: CFIUS Review and Outbound Investments
Compliance Tip of the Day: Standing at the Turning Point
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 68 - Why Geopolitical Risk Matters to Compliance and Legal Staff with Mark Nuttal and Chad Olsen
Episode 366 -- DOJ Issues Data Security Program Requirements
CHPS Podcast Episode 3: Unlocking America's Mineral Potential
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Last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD) updated its Enforcement Policy for Business Organizations to include guidance related to voluntary self-disclosures in connection with acquisitions....more
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
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum on June 9 (the Memo), announcing DOJ will resume enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) after its brief hiatus....more
Issued on February 10, 2025, Executive Order 14209 (“Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement To Further American Economic and National Security”) called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “review guidelines and...more
The Department of Justice ("DOJ") recently announced new guidelines for investigations and enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). ...more
On May 12, 2025, Matthew Galeotti, Head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, unveiled a comprehensive white collar enforcement strategy titled “Focus, Fairness, and Efficiency in the Fight Against...more
On May 12, Matthew R. Galeotti, the head of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, announced a new white collar enforcement plan, outlined changes to the Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Disclosure Policy,...more
On February 10, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order instructing the Attorney General of the United States to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") and to issue updated guidelines for...more
On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security. The executive order comes just days after the...more
On February 10, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order pausing enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), citing concerns that excessive enforcement was harming American businesses...more
The order pauses new FCPA criminal cases, directs review of existing cases, and leaves open several questions, including implications for specific business sectors and civil enforcement....more
Over the past few days, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued several significant policy memos that reshape the landscape for corporate legal risk, particularly for multinational corporations engaged in international...more
On February 5, 2025, the newly sworn-in United States Attorney General, Pamela Bondi, issued 14 memos to DOJ employees. The memos make clear that, under AG Bondi, DOJ’s enforcement efforts will focus on (i) immigration...more
Our analysis of financial crime and investigations developments over the past 12 months provides a revealing picture of an increasingly challenging regulatory and enforcement landscape facing businesses around the world. The...more
Enforcement and compliance prognosticators (like myself) continued to push DOJ’s promise to transform sanctions enforcement into the era of “the new FCPA.” While DOJ’s promise to bring about an aggressive corporate...more
While DOJ did not have an overwhelming FCPA enforcement year, DOJ has devoted significant energy to tweaking its enforcement and compliance policies. These measures were believed to coincide with a number of significant...more
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would not charge MilliporeSigma, a life sciences company, even though one of its employees falsified export documents. The DOJ declined to prosecute...more
In response to President Biden’s Executive Order authorizing increased data privacy measures, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Matthew G. Olsen announced that the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ)...more
Over the last few years, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has continuously announced significant policies and programs directed at encouraging and rewarding the timely reporting of corporate wrongdoing, incentivizing...more
If companies operated with perfect governance mechanisms and controls, they would all be ready for the coming sanctions enforcement storm. However, that is not the corporate reality. Even after several companies are the...more
On February 7, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that settlements and judgements under the False Claims Act (FCA) exceeded $2 billion for the 2022 fiscal year. The 2022 fiscal year also had the second-highest...more
A careful reading of the DOJ and SEC settlement documents for the SAP case will puzzle you. I know I am scratching my head trying to make sense of the whole picture here. There are a number of significant indicators of a...more
Over the last several months, companies have become entangled in an increasingly complex web of new and expanded sanctions and export control restrictions related to Russia in response to its war on Ukraine. The current...more
The marriage of corporate enforcement and national security has been a defining feature of the DOJ under the Biden Administration. The Justice Department’s commitment to prosecuting corporate crimes that implicate national...more
President Biden issued a long-awaited executive order, “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” (the Executive Order or E.O.), on August 9, 2023,...more