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More Wisdom from The Bribery Act Guys

In FCPAméricas’s last post, we gave highlights from Tom Fox at the World Compliance FCPA Summit 2011 in Houston, TX. At the same seminar, the Bribery Act Guys (UK attorneys Barry Vitou and Richard...

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Third Party Red Flags and Latin America

Looking back at FCPA enforcement actions in 2011 that involved Latin America, all but one included risk created “indirectly” by third parties. And that one, Tyson Foods, involved payments to spouses of...

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Mitt Romney, Private Equity, and the FCPA

I admit it. Latin America is not my only passion. I am also a political junkie. Four years ago, I took a month’s leave from my Washington, DC law firm to trudge through the New Hampshire snow in...

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What Private Equity Should Know about Recent SFO Developments

Recent developments at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) should be on private equity’s radar. If institutional investors subject to UK jurisdiction fail to ensure that their portfolio companies have...

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The Government’s Response to the Proposed Affirmative FCPA Compliance Defense

At the recent ACI 2012 National Conference on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. Government provided a direct response to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s affirmative compliance defense...

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Beyond the FCPA: Commercial Bribery, the Travel Act, and Compliance

Today’s guest post is from anti-corruption attorney Matthew Fowler who formerly worked as a compliance officer at a multinational defense company. When I was an in-house compliance officer, the issues...

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Impact of the FCPA and UK Bribery Act in Latin America: Perspectives from...

The impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act on business in those countries can be measured in different ways: the total fines imposed, the number of compliance officers...

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Impact of the FCPA and UK Bribery Act in Latin America: Perspectives from...

What impact have the FCPA and the UK Bribery Act had outside the US and the UK? I put that question (and a few others) to prominent anticorruption attorneys in five Latin American countries. All...

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Revisiting U.K. Anti-Corruption Enforcement on the Third Anniversary of the...

This guest post is from Geoff Martin, an Associate from Baker & McKenzie’s London office currently working with the firm’s Compliance & Investigations Group in Washington, DC. U.K. Bribery Act...

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Corruption Risk and the 2016 Rio Olympics: Raising the Bar for Hospitality...

This post is authored by Carlos Ayres, along with Senior Associate Geoff Martin and Associate Jean-Paul Theroux in Baker & McKenzie LLP’s Compliance, Investigations and Government Enforcement...

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Growing FCPA Awareness in Latin America

In his keynote address at the 2016 ACI International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, Andrew Ceresney, said: “This is my fourth year here...

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