Bribing overseas officials used to just be the province of big oil companies — it recently cost Chevron $30 million to settle government charges that it paid illegal kickbacks to Iraq for oil.

But San Francisco Bay Area lawyers say that local tech companies — especially those expanding overseas — could find themselves the targets of a crackdown on the shadier forms of negotiation sometimes used in foreign countries.

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