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The Bank retained external counsel to assist with conducting an internal investigation.

On December 10, 2012, UK Banks HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) entered into agreements with US enforcement authorities to settle civil and criminal charges relating to US economic sanctions, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations.

This is the second installment in our coverage of the DOJ's recent criminal cartel enforcement actions.

As global regulations proliferate and become more complex, so too do the challenges of maintaining a high-performing global ethics & compliance program.

Most employers will agree that California can be an expensive place to do business. Intricate provisions of the California Labor Code dictate requirements ranging from the length and time of meal breaks, to the details that must be provided on an employee’s paystub.

February 2013 yielded two opinions from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York: SEC v. Straub, et al. and SEC v. Sharef, et al.

Prosecutors Like Corporate Fraud Cases

Victims of corporate misconduct have traditionally relied on civil litigation to force corporate wrongdoers to make them whole. While our civil justice system has been an effective vehicle for compensating victims...

Our first edition of the Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White-Collar Criminal Defense Quarterly Newsletter begins with a report on our trial win in California in In re JDS Uniphase Corporation Securities Litigation.

Latin American countries continue to be a source of potentially lucrative investment opportunities for U.S. and multinational corporations.

Right now, without your knowledge, your company could be a defendant in a lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars in penalties.

The Department of Justice has established the National Fraud Enforcement Division (NFED) to centralize fraud prosecution across healthcare, government procurement, tax, and trade violations. With 500 staff already hired and plans to expand to over 600 positions by 2029, this new division signals a fundamental shift in how federal fraud cases will be investigated and prosecuted.

4月5日，美国司法部（"司法部"）宣布了为期一年的"海外反腐败法（"FCPA"）执法试点项目"以鼓励主动自我披露、配合和纠正（"试点项目"）。

This article first appeared as part of The Rand Corporation’s release of the publication of the proceedings for the Rand Center for Ethics and Governance, May 2, 2013, symposium, "Culture, Compliance and the C-Suite:

Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer issues Letter of Censure to Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director of Shell EP.

This article examines three recent cases brought under the controversial Park doctrine in search of clues to the doctrine’s future.

It is a unique model: an independent third party that is neither an employee nor an agent of the organisation or government, appointed and overseen by the government...

The genesis of the issue in United States v. Newman can be traced back to Dirks, which introduced a new analysis for determining when a breach of duty had occurred.