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Gifts and Hospitality in FCPA Compliance: Four cases for your back pocket
9.21.2012
Every now and then it is good to refresh one’s memory on important FCPA enforcement actions. For example, lawyers need to remind their clients and Chief Compliance Officers need to remind management that bribes under the FCPA are not limited to bags of cash and transfers to offshore bank accounts. Certain gifts, travel, and entertainment […]
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SEC: Local Language Essential to “Effective” FCPA Compliance
7.11.2012
What is the big lesson from yesterday’s $7.4 million SEC settlement with Lewisville, TX-based Orthofix, the latest FCPA action involving Latin America? The “FCPA Commentariat” will surely highlight how corruption risks are common in public procurement in countries like Mexico. FCPAméricas has written about that subject (The Anatomy of Corruption in Public Procurement) based on […]
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Three Concrete Ways in which FCPA Compliance Officers can Better Engage Operations
6.27.2012
One of the most difficult things about establishing an effective anti-corruption compliance program is getting the operations units of a company to take interest. Paper programs alone are insufficient. The Wal-Mart case and others tell us this. Instead, employees throughout a company must fully embrace compliance functions. And the business units are essential to putting […]
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Funciones del Asesoramiento Local en el Compliance (Una presentación en la Kellogg’s Latin America 2012 Partner’s Summit)
6.20.2012
El Doctor Matteson Ellis, especialista en la Ley sobre Anticorrupción de los Estados Unidos (FCPA), dio este discurso en español, el día 11 de junio de 2012, en la ciudad de Panamá, a 50 abogados de la región americana en la Cumbre de Socios (Partners Summit) auspiciada por Kellogg´s Latin America. A continuación se encuentra […]
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Local Counsel’s Role in Compliance (An Address to Kellogg’s Latin America 2012 Partners Summit)
6.20.2012
U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) attorney Matteson Ellis gave this speech in Spanish on June 11, 2012, in Panama City, Panama, to 50 attorneys from throughout the Americas at the 2012 Partners Summit hosted by Kellogg’s Latin America. It is reprinted in English below with the permission of Kellogg’s Latin America. You can find […]