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Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Alston & Bird

Carrots and Sticks Cross the Pond: The SFO’s New Corporate Self-Reporting and Cooperation Guidance

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The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has issued new guidance to encourage companies to self-report suspected corporate criminal conduct and cooperate fully with investigations. Our transatlantic White Collar, Government &...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

UK Serious Fraud Office Issues New Guidance on Corporate Cooperation and Enforcement

On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published new guidance for companies on cooperation and enforcement in relation to corporate criminal offending (Guidance). The Guidance outlines the SFO’s key...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

An Easier Route To Avoiding Corporate Prosecution? The UK’s SFO Announces A Shift In Strategy And New Corporate Cooperation...

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In what was a busy week for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), much of the attention has focused on the launch of its new streamlined ‘External Guidance on Corporate Co-Operation and Enforcement in relation to Corporate Criminal...more

Hogan Lovells

SFO's new self-reporting guidance: A new deal or a departure from justice?

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On 24 April 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new guidance signalling a notable shift in its approach to corporate criminal enforcement. For the first time, the SFO has stated that if a company self-reports...more

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The new enforcement avengers? The UK, France, and Switzerland enforcement Taskforce: Local regulators join forces against global...

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The United Kingdom (UK), France, and Switzerland announced on 20 March 2025 that they have jointly launched the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce to combat complex international white-collar crime. The...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

2024 in Review: Key Anticorruption Developments in the EU and France, with insights for 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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White Collar Crime Year in Review

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2023 has been a year of change at the SFO with a new Director, enhanced investigatory powers and new statutory regime that will make it easier to prosecute corporate criminal offenders. Dropped investigations and acquittals...more

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Fallout from the Glencore resolutions & lessons learned

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On 24 May 2022, Glencore International AG announced a series of coordinated resolutions with various international enforcements agencies including the Department of Justice (”DOJ”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Issues Declination to Global Advertising Company Under FCPA Enforcement Policy

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The Justice Department continues its enforcement “silence” with no major corporate prosecutions announced this year.  It is an interesting question but it appears that the wheels have ground to a halt, with one major...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The UK Serious Fraud Office’s Extraterritorial Powers Are Clarified

After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“SFO”) powers to obtain documents  located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

UK Settlement Highlights International Enforcement Linked to “Car Wash” Investigation

The UK Serious Fraud Office (the “SFO”) has reached a £1.2 million civil recovery settlement with Julio Faerman, a Brazilian national linked to the sprawling “Operation Car Wash” investigation involving the Brazilian...more

A&O Shearman

Woefully inadequate anti-bribery measures lead to deferred prosecution agreement for aircraft refurbishment company

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The SFO has concluded a deferred prosecution agreement with Airline Services Limited (ASL), a UK supplier of aircraft cabin parts and services, for failure to prevent bribery under s7 Bribery Act 2010.  Despite the company...more

Hogan Lovells

UK SFO Publishes DPA Guidance: comparing and contrasting the approach of the U.S. DOJ to DPAs

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The United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published comprehensive guidance on Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs). Lisa Osofsky, Director of the SFO, stated, “Over the past six years, we at SFO have been...more

Hogan Lovells

Not a silver bullet: public procurement lessons from the G4S DPA

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On 17 July 2020, a three-year Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and G4S Care & Justice Services (UK) Ltd (G4S) was approved. This DPA is the second arising from fraudulent conduct in...more

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The French Anti-Corruption Agency Publishes Its 2019 Annual Activity Report

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The French Anti-Corruption Agency ("FAA") report details key statistics relating to the controls the FAA carried out in 2019 and lessons to be drawn from this activity. On 9 July 2020, the FAA published its 2019 annual...more

A&O Shearman

FCPA Digest - Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - July 2020

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In the first half of 2020, the overall number of corporate enforcement actions dropped somewhat from recent years, with only six actions brought by the DOJ and SEC. The number of individual enforcement actions dropped as...more

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UK Serious Fraud Office Emphasizes Importance of Compliance Programs

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In a recent update to its internal guidance, the UK Serious Fraud Office provides insight into the general approach its investigators may take for evaluating organizations’ compliance programs—an approach similar to that of...more

A&O Shearman

Airbus Agrees Record-Breaking €3.6 Billion Settlement to Avoid Prosecution

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On 31 January 2020, Airbus SE (Airbus) reached final agreements with the French Parquet National Financier (PNF), the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) in order to resolve...more

The Volkov Law Group

Airbus Agrees to Pay $4 Billion in Global Settlement of Foreign Bribery and ITAR Violations (Part I of IV)

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In a blockbuster case, the Justice Department announced a global settlement with Airbus SE, a manufacturer of civilian and military aircraft, under which Airbus agreed to pay over $4 billion (yes, with a “B”) to resolve...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Airbus Settlement: Part 1 – Introduction

Last week, Airbus SE (Airbus) settled a long-standing corruption scandal by agreeing to enforcement actions in three countries; France, the United Kingdom and the US. The matter involved a massive, worldwide, long running...more

A&O Shearman

FCPA Digest - Recent Trends And Patterns In The Enforcement Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - January 2020

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In 2019, the overall number of corporate enforcement actions was slightly higher than in 2018, with twenty-five actions brought, compared to twenty-four in 2018. The number of individuals charged, using our parameters,...more

WilmerHale

I’m Dreaming of a White (Collar) Christmas: 2019 in Review

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The year 2019 has been something of a mixed bag for the UK’s criminal and regulatory authorities. While the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) and Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) appear to have taken involuntary sabbaticals...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.06.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Prices Shares at High-end of Range That Would Value Company at $1.7 trillion

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Saudi Aramco has priced its offering at the high end of its range, setting the company up to raise more than $25 billion and value the company at nearly $1.7 trillion—all part of what promises to make this the world’s biggest...more

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Justice Department Unseals Unaoil Executives’ FCPA Guilty Pleas

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The Justice Department announced that three Unaoil executives entered FCPA guilty pleas last year.  The three executives cooperated with law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of other companies and...more

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