In Ireland, a key issue for consideration and active management is businesses' anti-corruption policies.

Fraud, asset misappropriation and money laundering are among the top five economic crimes reported by Irish companies in the past two years.

Claire McLoughlin and Karen Reynolds, partners in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and co-heads of the Regulatory and Investigations Group ...

What does it mean to act corruptly? What are the risks and what practical steps can businesses and other organisations take to address corruption risk?

In our Summer 2011 newsletter we predicted that the proposed Criminal Justice Act 2011 (which had not yet been enacted) would speed up the Director of Corporate Enforcement’s (the "Director") investigation of Anglo Irish Bank.

The commencement of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018 represents a landmark in the combatting of bribery and corruption in Irish business in both the public and the private sectors.

Matheson partners, Bríd Munnelly and Carina Lawlor, co-author the Ireland chapter for The International Comparative Legal Guide to Business Crime 2016.

The International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Investigations 2019 has now been published. Corporate Investigations covers common issues in corporate investigations laws and regulations

The Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 (the "Act") was signed in to law on 6 August 2020 with most provisions commenced on 21 August 2020.

This Bill, will transpose the majority of the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/849) (MLD4) into Irish law. It was published by the Minister for Justice on 10 May ...

In the last week, there has been a spate of email interception attacks impacting several high profile companies and putting their data, and that of their customers, at risk.

On 2 November 2017 the Government published its new White Collar Crime package.

The Council of the European Union has published the final compromise texts for the proposed Third Payments Services Directive (PSD3) and the new Payment Services Regulation (PSR)...

On 18 March 2021, the President signed into law the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2021 (the Act).

Partners Claire McLoughlin and Karen Reynolds, and senior associate Ciara Dunny author the Irish chapter of the Practitioner's Guide to Global Investigations ...

The Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021 (the "Act") was signed into law on 22 December 2021 paving the way for the establishment of a new independent statutory authority, the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA)...

The Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2018 was signed into law on 14 November and came into force on 26 November,

The Criminal Justice Act 2011 was signed into law on 2 August 2011.

The Children (Amendment) Act 2021 (the "Act") has been commenced, by way of the Children (Amendment) Act 2021 (Commencement) Order 2021, with effect from 7 May 2021.

The Group of States against Corruption ("GRECO") published its fourth evaluation report on corruption prevention in Ireland on 21 November 2014.