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 for the first time. The widely held perception has been that only the United States enforces its anticorruption laws. The recently released report indicates enforcement by…
We asked Mini vandePol (Head of the Baker & McKenzie Global and Asia-Pacific Compliance Practice Group) and Joanna Ludlam…
On May 19, 2015 the Italian Parliament approved the new “Provisions related to crimes against the environment”. The…
The Portuguese Parliament recently enacted Law 30/2015, of 22 April, aiming to comply with the recommendations addressed to Portugal on corruption by GRECO, UN and OECD, making amendments to the Criminal Code, the law on crimes of responsibility of political offices and high public offices (Law 34/87), the law relating…
We rarely think about emergencies before they arrive on our doorstep. Yet, the recent civil unrest in Baltimore…
The European Commission’s Digital Single Market (“DSM”) agenda was launched on May 6, 2015 combining a wide ranging…
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 of other compliance and risk management concerns–presents a major challenge to multinational companies with extended enterprises. Although enforcement guidelines around the world vary in length, tone…
Some cases have recently emerged in Spain in connection with certain doctrine set up by the Criminal Division…
As regulators and prosecutors across many jurisdictions increasingly cooperate in cross-border anti-corruption enforcement efforts, the importance of an…
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 whether a compliance program and organization is adequate is to compare the company’s own program and organization with the compliance efforts of other companies (industry standard).…