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Anti-Bribery in Brazil: 2016 Year in Review
1.23.2017
A lot has been going on in Brazil in the anti-bribery field. There have been different developments that are noteworthy. This post highlights 5 relevant developments that took place in 2016. Other relevant developments will be summarized in the next post. Car Wash continues to advance. The Operation Car Wash was initially launched in March […]
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Whistleblowers: 2016 Year in Review
1.19.2017
The SEC 2016 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program was published on November 15, 2016. This post highlights seven relevant aspects of the report. Continuous increase in number of tips received by the SEC. The number of whistleblower tips the Commission receives annually continues to increase: 3,001 tips in the 2012 fiscal year, 3,238 […]
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What FCPA Enforcement Is Thinking in 2016
12.20.2016
The author of this post is Quinnie Lin, a Law Clerk at Miller & Chevalier. Senior FCPA enforcement officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) discussed enforcement trends and priorities at this year’s ACI International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on November 30 and December 1, […]
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Whistleblowers: 2015 Year in Review
2.12.2016
The SEC 2015 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program was published on November 16, 2015. This post highlights four relevant aspects of the report. Continuous increase in number of tips received by the SEC. The number of whistleblower tips the Commission receives annually continues to increase: 3,001 tips in the 2012 fiscal […]
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What FCPA Enforcement is Thinking in 2015
12.01.2015
Once again, top level FCPA enforcement officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) provided an overview of current enforcement trends and priorities at this year’s ACI International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on November 17, 2015. The DOJ’s Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Leslie […]