Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Cooperation, Corporate Counsel

Key Takeaways From the SFO’s New Corporate Guidance

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/28/2025

The updated guidance puts a heavy emphasis on self-reporting and clarifies how corporates under investigation can earn cooperation credit from UK prosecutors....more

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for August 2019

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 9/25/2019

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more

SFO Corporate Co-operation Guidance – A flawed approach and a wasted opportunity

BCLP on 9/19/2019

The much heralded Corporate Co-operation Guidance published by the Serious Fraud Office recently offers little comfort to corporates struggling with the dilemma of whether to self-report wrongdoing. Instead it offers a...more

The SFO’s Corporate Co-operation Guidance: Clarifying the Burdens of Cooperation, but Keeping the Benefits Obscure

Quinn Emanuel on 8/14/2019

Last week the UK Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) published its long-anticipated guidance on the steps companies should take when choosing to cooperate with the agency’s investigations. A mere five pages long, the SFO’s Corporate...more

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office Issues Guidance for Corporate Cooperation

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 8/9/2019

On 6 August 2019, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) released Guidance on what it expects from organisations seeking cooperation credit in the agency’s investigations. The long-awaited Guidance is a codified and clarified...more

Tesco: The Serious Fraud Office secures its fourth Deferred Prosecution Agreement

WilmerHale on 4/19/2017

On 10 April 2017, the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”) with Tesco Stores Limited (“Tesco Limited”), as part of which Tesco Limited will pay a £129 million financial penalty...more