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'Carbon Copy' Cases: Policymakers, Practitioners Need to Be Aware of Risks

Prosecution of bribery of foreign public officials, under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other similar laws, has been rising globally for some time.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Deutsche Bank to Pay $125 Million to Resolve FCPA, Fraud Cases, Brooklyn Federal Prosecutors Announce

The bank has agreed to pay $85 million in criminal penalties and more than $40 million to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to resolve allegations over hiding bribes to "decisionmakers" in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Get to Know the Miami Lawyer Behind High-Profile Venezuelan Prosecutions

Michael B. Nadler has switched sides and is now a criminal defense partner at Stumphauzer Foslid Sloman Ross & Kolaya in Miami.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Rare FCPA Advisory Opinion From the DOJ: Cause and Effect

While the Opinion may have been helpful to the requesting company, its usefulness to other companies is severely limited for a variety of reasons. More generally, using the FCPA advisory opinion procedure remains impractical and potentially even unwise in many circumstances.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Houston Energy Company Will Pay $90 Million Under Deferred Prosecution Agreement in FCPA Case

Vitol general counsel Ernest Kohnke and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partners Jeffrey Knox and Joshua Levine signed the deferred prosecution agreement, under which Vitol agreed to improve its compliance programs.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

After a Wild 4-Year Ride, Wilson Sonsini Duo Has $136M in Proof that Foreign Bribery Isn't a Victimless Crime

Moe Fodeman and Michael Sommer at Wilson Sonsini convinced a federal judge in Brooklyn to order hedge fund manager Och-Ziff Capital Management Group to pay restitution to clients who lost mining rights in a judicial bribery scandal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

All the Big Firms That Guided Goldman Sachs to a Record-Setting Foreign Bribery Resolution

The bank enlisted a team of partners from five large firms as it came under scrutiny in a foreign bribery investigation.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Former Paul Manafort Prosecutor Joins Davis Polk as White-Collar Defense Partner

Uzo Asonye has been a federal prosecutor in Alexandria, Virginia, for over a decade.
5 minute read

Law.com

The Updated FCPA Resource Guide

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue this second edition contains some new "hypotheticals" — facts of actual cases the DOJ finds important enough to focus on — and, in keeping true to its name, has included additional resources and links for chief compliance officers looking to design and audit their companies' anticorruption compliance programs.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

SEC Examines Relationship Between Bad Books and Bribery Schemes

Recent SEC and DOJ enforcement actions show a new attention to less used provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that help prevent bribes by requiring good recordkeeping.
5 minute read

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