Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments For November 2017

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:  How does the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy differ from the FCPA Pilot Program that it replaced?  What are the key provisions of Argentina's new corporate anti-corruption law? Who were the first defendants to stand trial in the FIFA corruption case? The answers to these questions and more are here in our November 2017 Top Ten list.

1. DOJ Announces New FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy.  On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy ("the Policy") that supersedes the FCPA Pilot Program announced in April 2016.  In his announcement, DAG Rosenstein explained that the Policy would be incorporated into the United