FCPAméricas Blog
Anti-Corruption Reform Moving Forward in Mexico
4.30.2015
Believe it or not, anti-corruption reform is happening in Mexico. This is highly significant. As FCPAméricas noted in the past, for years the country has been criticized by the OECD Working Group for not moving fast enough to implement legal changes necessary to satisfy its commitments under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Mexican President Peña Nieto proposed an Anti-Corruption Commission... Read more
Bridging Compliance under the FCPA and the BCCA
4.28.2015
This guest post is from Eloy Rizzo, a senior attorney with the law firm KLA – Koury Lopes Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Rizzo focuses on anti-corruption and compliance issues, as well as on complex litigation. Mr. Rizzo currently interns at Miller & Chevalier’s anticorruption team in Washington, DC.
On March 18, 2015, President Rousseff enacted Decree 8.420/15, approving the Federal Guidelines (“the Guidelines”) for the Brazilian Clean Company Act (“BCCA”). Although the BCCA has been in force since early 2014, the recently enacted Guidelines establish important standards for evaluating compliance programs and assessing fines under the law. As previously... Read more
Brazil Issues New Regulations on the Clean Companies Act
4.21.2015
On March 18, 2015, President Dilma Roussef signed Decree 8.420/2015, which regulates certain features of the Clean Companies Act. The highlights of Decree 8.420/2015 are available here.
On April 7, 2015, the Office of the Federal Comptroller General (“CGU“), the body with authority to in... Read more
