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In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which company resolved foreign bribery charges in the United Kingdom? What did the former CEO of a New York Stock Exchange listed company plead guilty to in a New York federal court? What are the latest developments in the investigations of alleged corruption at the national oil companies in Ecuador and Venezuela? The answers to these questions and more are here in our April 2021 Top 10 list.
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In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and
compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most
important international anti-corruption developments from the past
month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which
company resolved a foreign bribery case in Scotland? What was the
outcome of a three-year foreign bribery trial in Italy? Why is
Brazil s former president free to run for office again, despite
multiple corruption convictions? The answers to these questions and
more are here in our March 2021 Top 10 list.
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In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which company resolved a foreign bribery case in Scotland? What was the outcome of a three-year foreign bribery trial in Italy? Why is Brazil’s former president free to run for office again, despite multiple corruption convictions? The answers to these questions and more are here in our March 2021 Top 10 list.
Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement.
This client update provides an overview of the FCPA and other domestic and international anti-corruption enforcement, litigation, and policy developments from 2020, as well as the trends we see from this activity. We at Gibson Dunn are privileged to help our clients navigate these challenges daily and are honored again to have been ranked Number 1 in the