What Every Multinational Company Should Know About … Anticorruption Red Flags (Part I)

We have received several requests to publish a list of red flags pertinent to multinational organizations. To accommodate these requests, we are publishing a three-part series on anticorruption, export controls and economic sanctions red flags, and antiboycott red flags. The first of these articles, on anticorruption red flags, is found below.

As covered in previous articles in our biweekly series — see here, here, here, here, here, and here — anticorruption compliance is a key part of any multinational's international regulatory risk management. Anticorruption efforts have been an enforcement priority of the U.S. government for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for several decades now, with other countries increasingly taking a more aggressive posture on anticorruption enforcement as well.