Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments For July 2015

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 in the past month with links to primary resources. It was another busy month, with DOJ announcing what is only its second corporate FCPA enforcement action of 2015, SEC announcing its fifth corporate FCPA enforcement action of 2015, new developments in the ever-evolving corruption scandal in Brazil, and increasing enforcement efforts abroad, including bribery convictions in both Norway and Qatar. Here is our July 2015 Top Ten list:

1. Louis Berger International (LBI) Agrees to Pay $17.1 Million Criminal Penalty and Two Former Executives Plead Guilty. On July 17, 2015, the New Jersey-based engineering, architecture, and construction management company entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with DOJ, admitting to violations of the FCPA. LBI agreed to pay a $17.1 million criminal