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DOJ Focuses FCPA Enforcement With New Guidelines

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DOJ issues updated guidelines, ending temporary “pause” on FCPA enforcement and focusing potential enforcement on priority areas. On June 9, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum (the Guidelines)...more

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With New White Collar Enforcement Priorities Memo, DOJ Seeks to Provide More Pathways to Declinations and Non-Prosecution...

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In Part One of this series, we discussed the May 12, 2025, U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s new guidance memo on white-collar enforcement priorities in the Trump 2.0 Administration entitled “Focus, Fairness, and...more

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UK Criminal Enforcement Update - Spring 2024

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Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more

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US Deputy Attorney General Monaco Announces Revised Policies on Corporate Crime

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Updated DOJ policies will continue to focus on individual accountability and corporate recidivism, while aiming to provide additional incentives for voluntary self-reporting, foster greater transparency on use of monitors,...more

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Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco Announces Changes to DOJ’s Corporate Criminal Enforcement Policies

On September 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced new guidance and policies regulating corporate criminal enforcement. The new policies emphasize that DOJ will not...more

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DOJ Announces New Policies Addressing White Collar Criminal Enforcement

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the Department of Justice’s new approach to prosecuting corporate crime, including policy changes that will reduce constraints on prosecutors and increase scrutiny on companies,...more

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Little “New” in SFO’s New Guidance on Compliance Programs

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On January 17, 2020, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) published new guidance regarding how the office assesses the compliance programs of organizations that are under investigation. “Evaluating a Compliance...more

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Israel's Prosecution Policy for the Criminal Prosecution and Punishment of Corporations

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In October 2019, the Israel State Attorney published a new guideline on its office’s policy when considering the prosecution of a corporation, as well as on how it should determine its position on the manner of punishing...more

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Transatlantic Approach on Corporate Cooperation: How Newly Issued French and UK Guidance Compare to US Practices

As widely anticipated, French and U.K. regulators recently published guidance detailing their expectations for corporate cooperation in enforcement investigations. Both sets of guidance demonstrate further alignment of those...more

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Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Issues Guidance on Ability-to-Pay in False Claims Act Cases

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DOJ Issues Guidance on Ability-to-Pay in False Claims Act Cases - On October 8, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski announced new guidance for federal prosecutors evaluating whether a corporation is unable...more

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New DOJ Guidance Instructs Corporations on Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance Program

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On April 30, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice released an update to the Fraud Section’s February 2017 guidance document titled “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs.” ...more

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DOJ updates guidance on evaluating the effectiveness of corporate compliance programs

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On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updated guidance detailing how prosecutors will evaluate corporate compliance programs in charging and resolving criminal cases....more

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Department of Justice Releases Guidelines for Effective Corporate Compliance Programs

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On May 1, 2019, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updated guidance for prosecutors to utilize in assessing whether an organization had in place “an adequate and effective corporate...more

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The Role of Compliance in Government Enforcement

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As reflected in recent remarks by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is “reinforcing its relationship with good corporate citizens” by coordinating with, and considering, the...more

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What Businesses Need to Know About Government Investigations in 2019

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is still in the early days of applying a significant change to how companies get credit for cooperating during government investigations. In a speech delivered on November 29, 2018, Deputy...more

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DOJ Issues New FCPA Policy Offering Incentives to Encourage Disclosure of Foreign Bribery and Corruption Misconduct

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On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was issuing a new enforcement policy covering its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The...more

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DOJ Fraud Section Provides Essential Insight into How Corporate Compliance Programs Are Evaluated

On February 8, 2017, the Criminal Fraud Section of the Department of Justice published a document titled “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs,” providing guidance on how the DOJ evaluates the effectiveness of a...more

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