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Sometimes Bribery is Like a Box of Chocolates
The baseball season is at its traditional half-way mark with the All-Star Game. This season certainly has already shown promise as one of the surprises with both the Washington Nationals and the Pittsburg Pirates
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Challenges in Ensuring Anti-Corruption Compliance by Distributors
The Justice Department’s recent enforcement action against Smith & Nephew underscored an important point – companies can be responsible for FCPA violations committed by distributors of the company’s products. FCPA compliance professionals already
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Grant Thornton: New bribery and corruption regulations cast a global net, expose Canadian companies to risk
Grant Thornton LLP today released Anti-corruption legislation casts a global net; Don’t get caught because you don’t know the rules, a white paper designed to help globally-active Canadian companies navigate an increasingly complex web
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City’s Development System A Major Fraud Risk, Says Auditor
Imagine you’re a developer with a pal who handles permits for the city of San Diego. And say you thought the permitting fees were a little too high. Not to worry, your pal says,
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Transparency International issues Anti-Bribery guidance on due diligence for Transactions
Transparency International ("TI") has issued guidance for anti-bribery due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and investments (the "Guidance"). The Guidance is intended to provide a practical tool for companies undertaking anti-bribery and corruption ("ABC")
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Rooting Out Corruption … in the United States?
On June 11, the United States government filed a complaint documenting a record of corruption as outlandish as anything seen since Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos plundered the Philippines in the 1980s. The complaint detailed
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Industry doubts Bribery Act enforcer’s appetite for prosecution
The lack of a corporate prosecution under the UK Bribery Act has caused businesses to question the Serious Fraud Office's appetite for enforcement, Ernst & Young has found. The Ernst & Young Global Fraud Survey
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Real World Challenges under the FCPA and Bribery Act
Last week I wrote a fictional piece about some of the challenges that a company might face in complying with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Unfortunately some of the concepts I wrote about
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