Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments For June 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 a rare FCPA trial ending in a mid-trial guilty plea on favorable terms to the defendant, DOJ's first corporate resolution of the year, a pair of SEC declinations, and a variety of other anti-corruption developments in the U.S. and abroad. Here is our June 2015 Top Ten list:

1. Sigelman FCPA Trial Ends in Guilty Plea, Probation, and Corporate Declination.

The highly-anticipated and closely watched Joseph Sigelman trial on conspiracy, money laundering, and FCPA charges began in the District of New Jersey on June 2, 2015—and ended abruptly on June 15, 2015, when Sigelman agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the FCPA. The next day, Sigelman was sentenced to three years of probation and