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In April, the DOJ announced a one-year pilot program offering certain violators of the FCPA the possibility of reduced sanctions on top of any credit provided for by the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.

On March 10, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (the Department CEP), a first-of-its-kind uniform corporate enforcement policy.

On November 29, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced the Department of Justice's (DOJ) much-anticipated revisions to the September 2015 Memorandum...

On April 5, 2016, the DOJ Criminal Division's Fraud Section released its FCPA Enforcement Plan and Guidance Memorandum (the "Fraud Section Memo").

Nate Mendell spoke to Bloomberg Law about U.S. Department of Justice officials advocating for targeted evidence gathering as prosecutors are...

In a pair of recent articles, practitioners have been crunching the numbers, and 2016 is on near-record pace for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action dispositions.

Several major international oil exploration companies and a logistics provider have allegedly initiated internal investigations in response to allegations of bribery involving a joint venture entity and Kazakh Customs officials, according to a recent Wall Street Journal ("WSJ") article.

A Paris-based pharmaceutical company ("Sanofi") agreed to pay more than $25 million to settle SEC claims that the company falsely recorded improper payments and lacked sufficient internal accounting controls to detect and prevent violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA").

Might this policy result in significantly more prosecutions of individuals? Doubtful. Senior executives and other individuals have always been in DOJ's crosshairs.

Nate Mendell spoke to Bloomberg Law about a discrepancy in new self-disclosure policies between U.S. attorney's offices and Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters...

The SEC settled charges against a medical device manufacturer and its wholly owned Danish subsidiary for engaging in "hundreds of sham transactions with distributors that funneled about $20 million to third parties...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a limited, but potentially significant, ruling on disgorging short-swing profits.

This is an alert to our clients regarding fraudulent offers of business filing services.

Recently, in Bascuñan v. Elsaca, the Second Circuit adopted a new test for domestic injuries alleged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) when the plaintiff is a foreign litigant.

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently made it clear: fighting corporate crime is one of the Biden Administration's top priorities.

WilmerHale attorneys from the Investigations and Criminal Litigation and Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practices co-authored a chapter in the inaugural edition of Global Investigations Review’s "The Investigations Review of the Americas 2015." WilmerHale Partners Stephen A. Jonas, Daniel F. Schubert and Counsel David Zetlin-Jones collaborated on the chapter titled "United States: handling internal investigations."

Lisa Osofsky, Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), spoke at the annual ACI FCPA Conference in Washington DC today, offering her thoughts on the agency's outlook and priorities moving forward.