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Bribery
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FCPA Professor
Issues To Consider From The Gunvor Enforcement Action
By Mike Koehler
This recent post highlighted the net $474.4 million Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action against Gunvor (a Swiss-based energy trading company – a subsidiary of Gunvor Group Ltd., a multinational…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Supreme Court to Weigh Scope of Federal Bribery Statute
US Supreme Court to Review Potential Limits of Statute A case pending before the Supreme Court, Snyder v. United States, is set for oral arguments on April 14, 2024, with…
FCPA Professor
A Look At The Aguilar Jury Instructions
By Mike Koehler
Late week, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Javier Aguilar “for his role in a scheme to bribe Ecuadorean and Mexican government officials and to launder money to secure contracts…
SEC Actions
Newsletter Publisher Charged For Accepting Secret Payments
It is axiomatic that the publication of favorable articles can be quite helpful to the share price of stocks. This may be particularly true if the favorable article is published…
International Compliance Blog
Asia Pacific 2023 Anti-Corruption Rankings: Transparency International’s CPI and the TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix
Asia Pacific (APAC) countries continue to “stagnate” in their rankings in 2023, only minimally above the global average, with most well below, according to two anti-corruption due diligence tools, TRACE’s…
FCPA Professor
DOJ Charges Former Stericycle Executive
By Mike Koehler
In mid-2022, Stericycle (an Illinois based medical waste disposal company) resolved a net $59 million parallel DOJ and SEC Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action (see here and here for prior posts).…
FCPA Professor
Inquiry Closed
By Mike Koehler
Interactions with Ecuador’s Seguros Sucre, an alleged state owned insurance company, have resulted in three FCPA enforcement actions. Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group Holdings (March 2022). Tysers Insurance Brokers (November 2023).…
Dispute Resolution Blog
EU’s Anti-Corruption Package: Insights and Recommendations for Indian Businesses
By Sara Sundaram, Gaurav Jain, CAM Disputes Team
Corruption and bribery[1] are often a cross-border phenomena. Accordingly, since the early 1990s, various countries around the world have joined global efforts to combat corruption collectively. Recently, European Union (“EU”)…
Triage Health Law
FEPA: the New Tool in the DOJ’s Fight Against Corruption
Members of our Government Investigations & White Collar team recently presented a timely webinar on the new Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA). The Act, which has been referred to as…
Global Policy Watch
Gratuity or Gift? The Supreme Court May Soon Delineate the Difference
Federal circuit courts are split on a core question of corruption law: whether state and local officials, and agents of organizations that contract with or receive benefits from the federal…