Harry Cassin
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Andy Spalding
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Jessica Tillipman
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Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
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Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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June 2023 marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of corporate governance within the European Union (EU). In response to rising global concerns about environmental degradation and human rights abuses, the EU has adopted a groundbreaking directive that lays down comprehensive rules for corporate sustainability due diligence.… Continue Reading
First came the stunning news from the SEC on May 5th: it awarded a record $279 million to a whistleblower, dwarfing the previous record of $114 million set in 2020. Then last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the award was related to Ericsson’s $1.1 billion FCPA settlement with the DOJ and SEC in 2019.… Continue Reading
“Behavioral science is fascinating, but how do you apply it to the operational reality?” Last year this question kick-started a series of articles I’ve written on the FCPA Blog on how behavioral science can be effectively applied to ethics and compliance.… Continue Reading
Memorial Day is complicated. We honor not war but those who do not return from war.… Continue Reading
American technology and consulting company Gartner, Inc. agreed Friday to pay the SEC $2.45 million to settle charges that it violated the FCPA by bribing officials at the South Africa Revenue Service.… Continue Reading
Even by today’s larcenous standards, last week’s indictment of a former Apple software engineer for theft of trade secrets is shocking. The DOJ accuses Weibo Wang of stealing the heart and soul of Apple’s self-driving car technology, including the architecture for an autonomous system and the “entire autonomy source code.”… Continue Reading
American pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer disclosed this month that the DOJ and SEC’s investigation into possible FCPA violations has expanded to Mexico, the third county named so far.… Continue Reading
The levels of fraud highlighted in the UK’s new Fraud Strategy, which was announced in early May, make for uncomfortable reading and should also serve as a warning to the rest of the world.… Continue Reading
An alarming aspect of the March meltdown that took out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank is that each had a stand-alone risk committee. We need to know what went wrong because risk committees are now commonly found at “most large companies,” according to a Big Four audit partner I talked to, and are assumed to protect against imprudent governance and management.… Continue Reading
On May 17, 2023, Paulo J.D.C. Casqueiro-Murta, a Portuguese citizen extradited to Houston in July 2021, was granted dismissal by the federal district court in Houston for the second time of his 2019 indictment that charged him with one count of FCPA conspiracy and three related money-laundering counts.… Continue Reading
ByteDance is a Chinese technology company that has given the world many products and a few revolutionary ones, including TikTok. What does their anti-bribery policy look like?… Continue Reading
Netherlands-based medical device company Koninklijke Philips N.V. agreed Thursday to resolve its second FCPA enforcement action by paying the SEC $62 million for violations in China.… Continue Reading
