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This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor In running FCPA Professor for over six years, I literally search for FCPA content every day. There is a lot of good stuff out there that is frequently highlighted on these pages. There...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor Several prior posts ( here , here , and here ) have focused on basic causation issues in connection with many Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions. The lack of causation...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor A plethora of scrutiny alerts and updates, dismissed, quotable, and for the reading stack. It’s all here in the Friday roundup. Scrutiny Alerts and Updates Crawford & Company...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor The FCPA in the hallways, Super Bowl bribery, no FCPA charges, quotable, survey says, FCPA reform advocate nominated to the federal bench, interesting homework assignment, scrutiny alert...

The GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) corruption matter in China continues to reverberate throughout the international business community, inside and outside China. The more I think about the related trial of Peter Humphrey and his wife, Yu Yingzeng for violating...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor SEC administrative proceedings, a sorry state of affairs, voluntary disclosure calculus, nice payday but what was really accomplished, and for the reading stack. It’s all here in...

Most compliance practitioners have heard the term " Red Flags ." Red Flags are generally defined as circumstances which could place a reasonable person on notice that illegal or improper conduct has or may occur. A Red Flags does not mean...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor But Mom / Dad, when Johnny gets into trouble his parents do things a little bit differently, why can’t I benefit from that? As I told The Globe and Mail in this article, that is...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor Three years ago this week, the New York Times ran a major story ( here ) titled “Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle.” The conduct at...

The evaluation of C-Suite leadership can be problematic in the best of times. In the compliance world, if a company has a serious violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), it may be due to tone-deafness at the top. Worse than simple tone...

On November 7, 1940, high winds buffeted the Tacoma Narrows Bridge leading to its collapse. The first failure came at about 11 a.m., when concrete dropped from the road surface. Just minutes later, a 600-foot section of the bridge broke free. Subsequent...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor Imagine FCPA Professor ranked the “Top FCPA Law Firms” and one factor in the rankings was whether the law firms either donated to FCPA Professor and/or had lawyers “graduate”...

Paul McNulty, former United States Deputy Attorney General has provided perspective that there are three general areas of inquiry the Department of Justice (DOJ) would assess regarding an enforcement action. First: "What did you do to stay out...

Today is the first of a two part interview with Robert “Bob” Appleton and is an edited version of the entire interview which will be available for download when part II is published next week. Hi Bob, and thank you for sharing your experience...

This article was reprinted with permission from FCPA Professor Numerous previous post on FCPA Professor have highlighted the double standard between enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and enforcement of 18 U.S.C. 201, the domestic bribery...