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ARTICLE · 13 JULY 2018

Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments For June 2018

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The answers to these questions and more are here in our June 2018 Top Ten list.

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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 from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: What will be the impact of the first coordinated foreign bribery resolution between French and U.S. authorities? Who has been appointed to lead the UK Serious Fraud Office? What changes are being proposed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower program? The answers to these questions and more are here in our June 2018 Top Ten list.

1.  DOJ Announces First Coordinated Foreign Bribery Resolution with France. On June 4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that French financial services company Société Générale S.A. (SocGen) and its wholly owned subsidiary, SGA Société Générale Acceptance N.V. (SGA), had agreed to pay a combined total of $860 million in criminal penalties to

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