Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
It was my job to tell the bright young employee he was being fired. I was the company’s outside counsel in Southeast Asia and the employee, a Singaporean, worked mainly in Malaysia.… Continue Reading
As the world’s leading international development organization, the World Bank Group has committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in its work and workplace, and it has taken a zero-tolerance policy toward racism and any other form of discrimination.… Continue Reading
As Jason Deegan’s post for the FCPA Blog recently reminded us, Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) rarely points to major changes from year to year. However, a closer analysis of ratings since 2012 – the year when TI adopted its current methodology for the CPI – may be more revealing.… Continue Reading
The 40 biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolutions of all time now have penalties totaling over $17.1 billion. Put another way, that’s more money than the GDPs of Belize, Somalia, the Seychelles, and Kyrgyzstan combined.… Continue Reading
The new Hogan Lovells’ Steering the Course II report examines the approaches, concerns, and regional differences of multinational corporations across the globe as they tackle anti-bribery and corruption risk by surveying 700 chief compliance officers, heads of legal, or equivalent.… Continue Reading
The DOJ unsealed an indictment Tuesday against two former executives of Alstom S.A. and a former executive of the Japanese trading company Marubeni Corporation, for allegedly bribing the head of the state-owned power company in Indonesia and members of parliament there.… Continue Reading
Transparency International released its 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index Thursday. The results of this latest iconic list beg the question: Should we look at the ten cleanest countries on the CPI to see where the next mega-FCPA settlement will come from?… Continue Reading
Stockholm-based Ericsson cracked our top ten list Friday with a $1 billion mega-settlement that landed at number two.… Continue Reading
The former lawyer at Keppel Offshore & Marine who helped the DOJ prosecute his ex-employer for FCPA violations in Brazil was sentenced Friday to time served and probation.… Continue Reading
Nearly a third of employees in Singapore were aware of misconduct at work during the past year but many of them didn’t report it to management.… Continue Reading
Today I write from Berlin, staying in what was old East Berlin. Last week I spoke at an event in Malaysia. Both societies that have experienced and are experiencing (respectively) political, social and economic change that was once unimaginable.… Continue Reading
A Singaporean commodities trader has been put on the FBI’s most wanted list and sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for allegedly laundering North Korean money through his family’s trading company.… Continue Reading
