With ambitions to build its workforce, incentivise whistle-blowers and become a more proactive player in domestic fraud enforcement, is the SFO's latest strategy game-changing?
Under the leadership of its newly appointed director, Nick Ephgrave QPM, the SFO's recent publication of its five-year strategy presents ...
Michelle de Kluyver
May 30, 20242 min read
Russia Authorizes Retaliatory Confiscation of Private US (and possibly other) Assets
On May 23, President Putin signed Decree No. 442 (“442”) authorizing the seizure of US private assets in Russia.
Tom Firestone
May 29, 20243 min read
Active and Passive Bribery 25 Years After the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the OECD Antibribery Convention.
Nicola Bonucci
May 28, 20242 min read
Ralph Lauren and its Non-Prosecution Agreement reflected FCPA trends
In April 2013, Ralph Lauren Corporation (RLC), the renowned American designer company, entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA)[1] to
Jeanette Gong
May 9, 20242 min read
Why Are Corrupt Heads-of-Government No Longer Willing to Retire from Office?
There are certainly various reasons why corrupt heads of state may be reluctant to retire from office, the most relevant being the fear of p
Bruce Horowitz
May 6, 20242 min read
China’s First Foreign Bribery Case
Last fall, a court in China sentenced two former executives of a state-owned railway company to prison for bribing a foreign official in Sin
Dave Lee
May 2, 20242 min read