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The DoJ's increased focus on the FCPA provides clear evidence of its view that bribery of foreign government officials to secure business is a "serious systemic criminal problem across the globe."

On July 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Perry Corp., a New York investment adviser, with securities law violations for failing to report substantial stock purchases in order to vote the shares in favor of a merger.

The UK's first-ever deferred prosecution agreement ("DPA") was concluded on 30 November 2015.

On March 23, 2015, Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis AG reached a civil settlement with the SEC for violating the internal controls and books and records provisions of the FCPA.

Compliance programs play a critical role for healthcare organizations, ensuring both individuals and the organization conduct business in a manner conforming to applicable laws and regulations.

The past few months have seen numerous high-profile enforcement actions highlighting an increasing trend, what Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco called "the biggest shift in corporate criminal enforcement that I've seen during my time in government: the rapid expansion of national security-related corporate crime."

The settlement terms give guidance on good corporate governance and show ways to incorporate anti-corruption standards.

This complaint stems from an alleged Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Scott Rothstein and his law firm, Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler ("RRA").

This complaint stems from a "Ponzi-like scheme" allegedly perpetrated by Mark Feathers and three entities he controls: Small Business Capital Corp. ("SB Capital"), and two mortgage investment funds managed by SB Capital and Feathers, Investors Prime Fund, LLC ("IPF") and SBC Portfolio Fund, LLC ("SPF") (IPF and SPF are collectively referred to in the complaint as the "Funds").

Criminal and supervisory authorities regularly settle enforcement actions. In light of these developments, we advise companies to take appropriate measures.

Amanda Raad, co-chair of Ropes & Gray's anti-corruption & international risk practice, discusses the new data-driven behavioral sciences approach to risk management.

The longest prison term ever imposed in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") case -- fifteen years -- was recently given to Joel Esquenazi, former president of Terra Telecommunications Corporation, after a jury convicted him under the FCPA for bribes paid to officials at Haiti Teleco, a state-owned telecommunications agency.

Over the last five years, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, has aggressively pursued insider-trading cases against a broad spectrum of defendants

On May 1, 2014, it was announced that Avon Products, Inc., reached a settlement with US regulators over a long-standing federal probe into whether the cosmetics company paid bribes in China and other countries to gain favors.

In January 2013, Minnesota-based MTS Systems Corporation stated that it fired several Korean employees after conducting an investigation into possible FCPA violations.

The importance of a company’s response to a Department of Justice investigation into possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was highlighted last week when Marubeni Corporation pleaded guilty to FCPA violations and agreed to pay an $88 million fine.

The U.S Department of Justice's (DOJ or Department) Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Pilot Program) has hit the ground running, reportedly triggering more than 100 reports...