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Compliance is all about risk — learning to see it, and how to manage it. One way to learn more about risk is by reading what others say about it. And a great place to do that is in Wall Street IPO documents.… Continue Reading
Ten years later, it still haunts me. I’m sitting at a Mumbai café with an Indian forensic accountant. She’s getting up to speed on what was then a new phenomenon: FCPA enforcement.… Continue Reading
During the past few tumultuous weeks, the idioms about “a bad apple” or “a few bad apples” have been heard often in relation to law enforcement practices in the United States.… Continue Reading
The FCPA Blog received over 2,500 responses to last week’s quiz. How did you compare with the rest of the community? Here are the results.… Continue Reading
Someone recently told me that it was more important “optically” to prosecute corruption than to focus on recovering assets. Yet history tells us that prosecutions for kleptocracy are rare. And even when convictions happen, the merry-go-round of politicians prosecuted for graft, only to be released after the next elections, is nothing short of a tragic comedy.… Continue Reading
Nigeria has moved to ground a luxury private jet that a former oil minister purchased by allegedly using his illicit cut of a $1.3 billion oil deal. The Nigerian government’s asset recovery lawyers seized the aircraft after it landed at Montreal-Trudeau airport towards the end of last month.… Continue Reading
Take the FCPA Blog’s 60-second quiz to test your knowledge of the FCPA. You can take the quiz as many times as you want, and all results are anonymous. Compete with your friends and colleagues to see who can score the highest.… Continue Reading
Job Title: Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Employer: MicroStrategy Incorporated
Location: Tysons, Virginia USA… Continue Reading
Call it fragmented supply-side enforcement. It’s where we are now in the historical development of anti-bribery enforcement. If you believe that anti-bribery enforcement should reduce global corruption, then this is a major problem.… Continue Reading
This year the SEC has already awarded $114 million to whistleblowers, nearly twice the amount than for all of 2019. Three awards in 2020 are among the ten biggest SEC payouts ever, including last week’s $50 million award to a former BNY Mellon currency trader.… Continue Reading
While we are trying to predict what the world will look like when the Covid-19 pandemic finally recedes, it is becoming clear already that after the outbreak is over, many of us will still be working from home.… Continue Reading
Last week I talked with Denise Lee Yohn, author of the bestseller, FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies. She’s one of America’s best-known branding consultants and speakers, with a client list that includes Sony, Frito-Lay, and Burger King.… Continue Reading