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The UK’s New Whistleblower Reward Scheme: A Turning Point for Tax Accountability

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In a landmark move, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced plans to launch a formal whistleblower award program modelled on the highly successful U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Program. This initiative...more

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New Whistleblower Reward Schemes Would Dramatically Increase Enforcement Risk for UK Corporates and Regulated Firms

Quick read - It is all but inevitable that UK enforcement agencies will start paying for information about organisational misconduct.  In the US, whistleblower reward schemes have generated tens of billions of dollars in...more

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Whistleblowing: ensure programs are fit for 2025

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Whistleblowing has become an increasingly critical aspect of corporate governance and compliance, especially for multinational companies operating across diverse legal and regulatory landscapes. We see increased efforts by...more

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Anticorruption and FCPA Enforcement: Takeaways and Lessons Heading into 2025

This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

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Incentivising Whistleblowers: What Does the Future Hold in the UK and the US for Whistleblower Protection and Incentivisation?

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In the UK, it has not historically been part of the fabric of our legal and regulatory system to pay whistleblowers who provide evidence to authorities who are investigating potential breaches of law or regulation....more

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Rewarding Whistleblowers Will Only be Effective as Part of a Wider Package of Reforms

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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Nick Ephgrave has consistently touted the benefits of offering financial rewards to whistleblowers. With the FCA also considering its position on financial incentivisation, and a supportive...more

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UK’s View Across The Pond At U.S. Whistleblower Program Success – Time To Incentivize Tipsters?

Several recent developments may spark a renewed effort to incentivize United Kingdom (UK)-based whistleblowers who frequently provide tips to U.S.-based agencies, such as the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). The...more

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SFO Announces Ambitious Five-Year Plan

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The Serious Fraud Office’s strategy for 2024 to 2029 indicates aspiration to be a more effective agency and to incentivise personnel. On 18 April 2024, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published an ambitious, albeit...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - March 2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

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Anticorruption Enforcement and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Trends to Track in 2024

This is the seventh in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

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U.K. Parliament Giving Whistleblower Protections a Fresh Review

Recent legislative developments in the United Kingdom, public remarks from the new director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), and recent parliamentary hearings on the Post Office Horizon scandal put a spotlight on...more

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Blowing the whistle on inadequate protections: How does the new EU Whistleblower Directive improve on existing legislation?

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'Whistleblower' is a widely used term. However, what it means and the protections a whistleblower might receive are by no means universal. Whistleblowers have been a regular presence in the news over recent years, from...more

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Individuals as Whistleblowers

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Cartels are by their nature hard to uncover and regulators rely – to a large part – on appealing to companies’ wallets. Immunity and leniency policies, by which regulators offer to whistleblowing companies full immunity or...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Journal’s weekend report on Facebook’s role in the unauthorized use of data from 50 million users wreaked havoc on the ‘Book’s stock yesterday, with losses spreading across the tech sector (and fellow its FANGers in...more

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Snitches get……massive cash rewards

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On Monday 20 March 2017, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a campaign to encourage whistle-blowers to come forward and expose cartels. The campaign is going to target social media and key websites. ...more

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The Future of U.K. Enforcement of Financial Crimes: Four Clues for 2015

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The legal and compliance landscape is changing quickly—it’s up to organisations that do business in the U.K. to strengthen their compliance programmes to meet these new challenges. In this whitepaper, Andrew Foose, vice...more

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Deferred Prosecution Agreements Authorised & “Whistleblower” Bounties Rejected: Clues to Future Enforcement of U.K. Financial...

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In the second of three posts on the future enforcement of U.K. financial crimes, we explore the implications of enforcement actions related to financial crime in the U.K. To see all four clues and a roadmap for implementing...more

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U.K. Commission Says “No” to Bounties for Whistleblowers

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The United Kingdom’s Parliament has been considering offering whistleblower bounties similar to those offered under the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. A commission formed by the Bank of...more

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This Week In Securities Litigation (Week ending June 6, 2014)

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The SEC had mixed results in court this week. A Manhattan jury returned a verdict against the agency in a high profile and long-running insider trading case where the agency had previously obtained favorable rulings from the...more

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UK Government Announces Changes to Bribery Regime

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Recent strategy paper sets out a new institutional structure for investigating bribery and proposes a reporting mechanism carrying financial incentives for whistleblowers. On 7 October, as part of its strategy document...more

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