11 Apr, 2024 FCPA Enforcement Outlook and Latest Compliance Guidance By Daniel Cendan Justin Simeone Grace Brody Over the past year, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has remained an important fixture in the enforcement and compliance...
14 Feb, 2024 Life sciences – what to expect in 2024 By Harriet Hanks Emma Franck-Gwinnell Adam Golden 2023 was marked by some real success stories in the life sciences and healthcare space, including ground-breaking new weight loss...
07 Feb, 2024 New SDNY Whistleblower Pilot Program Increases Incentives for Whistleblowers By Kimberly Zelnick Timothy Howard Alessandra Scalise Young Park +1 more... Show less On January 10, 2024, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced the creation of an SDNY...
11 May, 2023 SCOTUS Clarifies that the FSIA Provides Immunity to Sovereigns in Only Civil Cases, but Suggests Common-Law Immunity to Prosecution May Still Apply By David Livshiz Elliot Friedman Timothy Howard Kimberly Zelnick Scott Eisman Adam Silow +3 more... Show less On April 19, 2023, the United States Supreme Court in Turkiye Halk Bankasi v. United States held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities...
07 Feb, 2023 DOJ and Foreign Regulators Target the Bitzlato Cryptocurrency Exchange: Lessons on AML, KYC Obligations, and Cryptocrime By Timothy Howard Brock Dahl Andrew Bulovsky On January 18, 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it arrested Mr. Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national and the...
14 Jun, 2022 DOJ Pursues Criminal Prosecutions Related to Use of Cryptocurrency to Evade Sanctions By Olivia Radin Timothy Howard Kimberly Zelnick Stephanie Brown Cripps Jane Peng Andrew Bulovsky +3 more... Show less On May 13, 2022, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui released a redacted Memorandum Opinion disclosing that the US Department of Justice (DOJ)...
18 May, 2022 Hand in the Cookie Jar: How the Stericycle FCPA Resolution Provides Insight Into FCPA Enforcement Under President Biden By Olivia Radin Jennifer Loeb Altin Sila Emmeline Chen +1 more... Show less Earlier this year, we wrote that Illinois-based waste disposal company Stericycle, Inc. (Stericycle) had agreed in principle with the...
09 Mar, 2022 Korean Telecommunications Company Settles with the SEC: Lessons Related to the FCPA’s Accounting Provisions By Adam Siegel Olivia Radin Jennifer Loeb Andrew Bulovsky +1 more... Show less On February 17, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its first enforcement action of the year: a $6.3...
07 Mar, 2022 The Beginning of a Resurgence? Compliance Monitor Included in Stericycle FCPA Settlement By Olivia Radin Jennifer Loeb Emmeline Chen On February 24, 2022, Illinois-based waste disposal company Stericyle, Inc. (Stericycle) disclosed in its annual report that it agreed in...
22 Feb, 2022 AML Update: Recent Arrests Demonstrate Continued Focus on Crypto By Olivia Radin Jennifer Loeb Jane Peng Justin Simeone Alessandra Scalise +2 more... Show less On February 8, 2022, two New York-based individuals, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to...
07 Feb, 2022 “Silenced No More”: Capitol Hill Takes Aim at Mandatory Arbitration Clauses By Olivia Radin Jennifer Loeb Last week, companies around the world continued to find themselves uncomfortably in the spotlight as allegations of sexual harassment,...
24 Jan, 2022 Freshfields Team Authors Anti-Corruption Practice Guide By Eric Bruce Justin Simeone Andrew Bulovsky Amid active anti-corruption efforts by US and foreign authorities in recent years, the Biden administration emphasized during 2021 that...