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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Deferred Prosecution Agreements New Guidance

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UK SFO: the ingredients of cooperation

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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

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UK Serious Fraud Office Issues New Self-Reporting and Corporate Cooperation Guidance

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On 24 April 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new guidance to encourage companies to self-report suspected corporate wrongdoing.  The guidance states that self-reporting, combined with full cooperation with the...more

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Updated SFO Guidance: Familiar Framework, Sharper Focus—Timing Is Everything

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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is raising the stakes. With the publication of new Co-operation and Enforcement Guidance on 24 April 2025, the agency is ramping up enforcement and clarifying expectations for corporate...more

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France & UK Continue Corporate Criminal Enforcement: SFO Issues New Corporate Guidance

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Foreign regulators continue to intensify their efforts to combat bribery and corruption. France’s Anti-Corruption Agency (L’Agence française anticorruption or AFA) recently published its year-in-review for 2024, which showed...more

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Eye on Economic Crime: SFO Releases New Guidance on Corporate Cooperation and Enforcement

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On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) launched new guidance for corporates on self-reporting, cooperation and deferred prosecution agreements (“DPAs”). Among other things, the new guidance states that, if a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Serious Fraud Office Releases New Guidance on Self-Reporting, Cooperation and Deferred Prosecution Agreements

On 24 April 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) released new guidance on corporate self-reporting, cooperation and deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs)....more

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UK Serious Fraud Office releases DPA guidance

CEP Magazine (January 2021) - The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office published new guidance related to deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs). The guidance, nested in the office’s internal SFO Operational Handbook,...more

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The SFO, the Goose and the Golden Eggs: What the SFO’s New Guidance on DPAs Tells Us About the Prosecutor’s Approach to...

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On 23 October 2020, the SFO published a chapter from its Operational Handbook, including an expanded section on corporate co-operation, so as to give “comprehensive guidance” on the organisation’s approach to the use of...more

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SFO releases guidance on deferred prosecution agreements

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On 23 October 2020, the SFO published another chapter of its gradually evolving Operational Handbook (the Handbook), this time covering the invariably attention-grabbing topic of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)....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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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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Co-operation or Capitulation? – What the SFO Corporate Co-operation Guidance really means

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Is there a point at which co-operation becomes capitulation? Is there a danger inherent in co-operating without the guarantee of a favourable outcome for doing so?...more

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UK Serious Fraud Office Publishes Corporate Co-Operation Guidance

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On 6 August 2019, the UK Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) published Corporate Co-operation Guidance (‘Guidance’). This Guidance is designed to assist companies considering whether to self-report corporate wrongdoing to the SFO...more

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

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

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