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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) SFO Deferred Prosecution Agreements

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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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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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Tesco trial collapse highlights dangers of an early deferred prosecution agreement

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On 6th December 2018, the trial of two Tesco executives accused of false accounting collapsed. The judge concluded that the SFO's evidence, taken at its highest, was such that a jury could not properly convict. The SFO...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Cross-Border Investigations Update - June 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

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