Anticipating New French Anti-Corruption Rules: France Signals Willingness to Strengthen Legislation to Combat Bribery...
France’s Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, presented the framework of a bill which would create a new anti-corruption authority and introduce U.S.-style monitorships into French law.
EU antitrust procedural rules amended to aline them with EU Damages Directive
The Commission has adopted amendments to a number of its key procedural rules in order to bring them into line with the EU Directive on...
Global Overview of Anti-Corruption Laws 2015
It is our pleasure to present the first edition of Baker McKenzie’s Global Overview of Anti-Bribery Laws Handbook (“Handbook”). Given the success of last...
TRACE Report: The rest of the world outpaced U.S. corruption enforcement actions for the...
In a noteworthy trend picked-up by Trace International’s Global Enforcement Report, in 2014 non-U.S. enforcement actions concerning bribery of foreign officials outpaced U.S. enforcement actions...
Compliance Trends around the World – 10 Questions for the Compliance Heads of Baker...
We asked Mini vandePol (Head of the Baker & McKenzie Global and Asia-Pacific Compliance Practice Group), Joan Meyer (Head of the North American Compliance...
Before Disaster Strikes: Planning for the Worst Instead of Hoping for the Best
We rarely think about emergencies before they arrive on our doorstep. Yet, the recent civil unrest in Baltimore has presented another eye-opening reminder that...
EU Launches Antitrust Review of Online Practices and Legislative Overhaul of Digital Business Models
The European Commission's Digital Single Market ("DSM") agenda was launched on May 6, 2015 combining a wide ranging antitrust inquiry with a series of...
5 Essential Elements of Corporate Compliance – A Global Template
Effectively managing corporate compliance efforts in today's regulatory environment--preventing corporate officers and employee from engaging in illegal practices, while also addressing a wide array...
New version of the French competition authority guidelines on leniency
On April 3, 2015, after a public consultation launched last February 27, the French Competition Authority (the "Authority") released its fourth version of the...
Compliance Benchmark: Quantifying the Fundamentals
Various countries and their compliance-enforcing agencies request that companies have "adequate" compliance programs and organizations. But what does that mean? One option to determine...