8/18/2025 5:22:16 PM Recent Developments Provide First Look at FCPA Enforcement Priorities Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Timothy Howard Allison Kowalski After a temporary “pause” in enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and issuance of revised Guidelines for...
8/13/2025 3:12:03 PM False Claims Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Peter Linken Emmeline Chen Over halfway through the first year of President Trump’s second term, the Administration has employed a range of legal and regulatory...
6/11/2025 9:18:41 PM The FCPA Awakens: DOJ Announces New Enforcement Guidelines By Adam Siegel Eric Bruce Timothy Howard Kimberly Zelnick Daniel Cendan Jennifer Loeb Matthew Haggans Photeine Lambridis +5 more... Show less In the third week of the Trump Administration, the President announced a 180 day “pause” on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt...
6/2/2025 6:52:05 PM DOJ’s New White-Collar Enforcement Priorities: Where We’re Headed Under Trump 2.0 By Adam Siegel Eric Bruce Timothy Howard Jennifer Loeb Daniel Cendan Matthew Haggans Alessandra Scalise Aedan Collins Photeine Lambridis +6 more... Show less On May 12, 2025, the new head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, Matthew Galeotti, issued a memorandum outlining...
3/3/2025 6:37:33 PM Freshfields Authors Chapter on Strategic Considerations for Companies Navigating Sanctions Processes at the Leading Multilateral Development Banks By Adam Siegel Daniel Cendan Justin Simeone The sanctions processes within the leading multilateral development banks (MDBs) can result in serious consequences for the people and...
1/21/2025 9:26:03 PM Preparing for Political Risk in 2025: Contempt, Coordination, and Congressional Investigations in 2025 By Andrew Dockham Austin Evers Beth George Jessica Heller Loren Terry +2 more... Show less The second Trump administration begins with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and a conservative Supreme Court majority....
9/16/2024 3:52:23 PM FCPA Resolution Highlights Importance of Diligence and Post-Acquisition Integration By Matthew Haggans Daniel Cendan On Tuesday, September 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced and resolved charges against Deere & Co. (d/b/a...
8/26/2024 1:28:54 PM DOJ Unveils the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program By Adam Siegel Eric Bruce Timothy Howard Jennifer Loeb Daniel Cendan Kimberly Zelnick Alessandra Scalise Aedan Collins Young Park Connor Lang +7 more... Show less Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) officially launched its new three-year Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot...
5/9/2024 9:09:31 PM New Federal Policy Creates Path Forward for Mandatory Requirements for Critical Infrastructure Entities By Brock Dahl Megan Kayo Madeline Cimino On April 30, 2024, President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum (“NSM”) on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience...
4/25/2024 1:30:51 PM New DOJ Pilot Program and Recent DOJ Declination Demonstrate the Importance of Cooperation and Self Disclosure By Jennifer Loeb Elvira Sihvola Nomi Conway Aedan Collins +1 more... Show less On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a declination letter to Proterial Cable America, Inc. (Proterial)...
2/7/2024 5:35:40 PM 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...
5/11/2023 6:02:34 PM 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...
2/7/2023 7:10:24 PM 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...
6/14/2022 8:07:22 PM 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)...
5/18/2022 2:05:52 PM 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...
3/9/2022 11:40:03 PM 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...