Richard L. Cassin | Editor at large
Richard L. Cassin is the founder of the FCPA Blog. He serves as editor at large.
He has been named multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. He was named a Trust Across America 2019 Top Thought Leader in Trust.
Cassin’s articles about corruption and compliance have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Times (Singapore), New England Law Review, and many other leading publications. His opinions about FCPA enforcement have been cited recently by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, Variety, Bloomberg’s news wire, Reuters, NPR, Fox News, CNN, and others.
He was a senior partner in a major international law firm and the head of its Asia practice.
Recent Posts
At Large: Are you helping someone ‘talk smart’?
This week I’m answering a question from a reader. She asked: “I’ve just started my first job at a big law firm, and I want
Here’s everything new in the Second Edition of the FCPA Resource Guide
The DOJ and SEC published the Second Edition of A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Friday, updating for the first time
Alexion Pharmaceuticals pays SEC $21.4 million to resolve FCPA offenses
Connecticut-based Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. agreed to pay $21.4 million to resolve SEC charges that the company violated the FCPA by bribing foreign officials in Turkey
At Large: Has the ‘mother of all corporate risks’ finally arrived?
The market for directors and officers liability insurance has been out of kilter since the start of the year, with more demand than supply. Now,
At Large: Five reasons why compliance professionals should read ‘Risk Factors’
Compliance is all about risk — learning to see it, and how to manage it. One way to learn more about risk is by reading
At Large: It’s party time for SEC whistleblowers. Is the Supreme Court about to spoil the fun?
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
At Large: Is this the most important change in the DOJ’s new guidance?
The DOJ’s new guidance for evaluating corporate compliance programs put the spotlight on organizational justice, or what we might simply call fairness.
Here’s every change the DOJ made Monday to its corporate compliance program evaluation guidance
The Justice Department Monday published a new version of its guidance on how it evaluates compliance programs when making corporate charging decisions.
At Large: It’s time to have ‘the talk’ with your boss about successor liability
Two very different groups of companies will emerge from the lockdown: thousands with liquidity problems and uncertain futures, and hundreds with piles of cash and
At Large: OFAC creates titanic problem for compliance chiefs
Amid the coming post-Covid-19 resizing wave, when chief compliance officers request bigger budgets, don’t laugh, and don’t blame them. This time, it’s OFAC’s fault.