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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

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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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Client Alert: The SFO’s Corporate Guidance: Another Chapter in the SFO’s Playbook

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On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") launched its updated External Guidance on Corporate Co-operation and Enforcement in relation to Corporate Criminal Offending (“Corporate Guidance”), cementing a bold...more

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The Serious Fraud Office's Guidance on How to Best Avoid Prosecution

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The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published updated guidance on how corporates can best avoid or reduce the risk of prosecution in cases involving economic crimes such as bribery, fraud and corruption...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

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Eye on Economic Crime: Key takeaways from the Serious Fraud Office’s Business Plan 2025-26

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The Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) has released its Business Plan for 2025-26, outlining significant changes and strategic initiatives aimed at combatting serious fraud, bribery, and corruption.  The Plan is framed by the SFO...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

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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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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for September 2024

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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

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How the Serious Fraud Office's Ambitious Five-Year Strategy Will Impact Businesses

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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published its new five-year strategy for 2024-2029 (the Strategy), setting out its ambitious aspirations to become a “pre-eminent specialist, innovative and collaborative agency which...more

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Confronting and Mitigating Against Corruption

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Construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, contributing between 5 and 7 percent of GDP in most countries. However, it is also an industry that is highly vulnerable to corruption due to its inherent characteristics....more

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New SFO Director Sets Tone for Tenure

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Motivated by a “visceral reaction” to large-scale economic crime, Nick Ephgrave lays out vision for a bolder, more pragmatic, and more proactive agency. Whistleblowers, dawn raids, and cross-agency collaboration are all...more

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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for December 2023

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for June 2023

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

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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

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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

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Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for October 2021

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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 case developments from the past month,...more

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UK Serious Fraud Office Issues Further Guidance on Deferred Prosecution Agreements

On 23 October 2020, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) updated its Operational Handbook, publishing a new chapter on deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) (the Chapter). This note summarizes key points from the Chapter and...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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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