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Today, in what the FCPA Blog called "making FCPA history", the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the agreement by the Global logistics firm Panalpina and the energy companies Shell, Transocean, Tidewater, Noble and Pride International to resolve various outstanding FCPA charges. The total amount of penalties is $156.565 million in criminal fines and about $73.9 million in civil disgorgement, interest and penalties.
SETTLEMENT BOX SCORE
Entity
Criminal Fine
Profit
Disgorgement
DPA or NPA
Outside
Monitor
Panalpina
$70.56MM
$11.3MM
DPA
No
Shell
$30MM
$18.1MM
Transocean
$13.44MM
$7.2MM
Pride Int'l
$32.625MM
$23.5MM
Tidewater
$7.35MM
$8.3MM
Noble
$2.59MM
$5.5MM
NPA
Total
$156.565MM
$73.9
In addition to the total amount going to the US Treasury of approximately $229.5, the most interesting item noted is that none of the parties was required to have a corporate monitor as a part of its settlement. In future posts we will review the specific Deferred Prosecution Agreements (or Non-Prosecution Agreement) to see if we might glean some of the DOJ's concepts of current FCPA compliance best practices.
Download the DPA for Panalpina here, Shell here, Tidewater here, Pride here, Transocean here, and the NPA for Noble here.
Visit the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog, hosted by Thomas Fox, for more commentary on FCPA compliance, indemnities and other forms of risk management for a worldwide energy practice, tax issues faced by multi-national US companies, insurance coverage issues and protection of trade secrets.
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