Former EDF exec gets five years in bribery case

A French court has sentenced a former procurement manager at energy company EDF to five years in prison and a €100,000 fine for bribery and market rigging, in a case linked to three of the country’s CJIPs.

People News: A&O hires Madoff prosecutor

SNC-Lavalin hires a new general counsel, the lead architect of Sapin II moves into private practice, and Allen & Overy hires from K2 Intelligence in the US.

Proactive compliance: predicting corrupt payments

The head of compliance at AB InBev, one of the world’s largest fast-moving consumer goods companies in the world by revenue, explains how the brewer uses data analytics and risk scoring to help identify transaction patterns that require investigation.

Brazil approves distribution of Petrobras bribery settlement

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ratified an agreement that sees the proceeds of a bribery penalty handed to state-controlled oil company Petrobras put towards extinguishing Amazon wildfires.
US Treasury Department shrinks sanctions penalty for London bank

The US Treasury Department has suspended over $200 million of a potential fine to the British Arab Commercial Bank for breaching sanctions after consulting with a UK financial regulator.
DLA Piper Chile opens white-collar crime practice

DLA Piper has launched its white-collar crime practice in Chile by hiring a partner from local criminal litigation boutique Cortés y Rodríguez Abogados to lead the area.

Former FCPA unit chief delivers profane judgment of accounting provisions

Enlivened by salty language, Chuck Duross’s remarks at an American Bar Association conference in Georgia offered a rare candid assessment.

Vinson & Elkins adds another FCPA lawyer

Vinson & Elkins has hired Palmina Fava, a former partner at Paul Hastings, to handle foreign bribery matters from the firm’s New York office.

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Comment & analysis

US Justice Department acts to increasingly enforce FARA while practitioners call for clearer rules

Bruce Zagaris at Berliner Corcoran & Rowe in Washington, DC argues that the increased enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act along with enhanced enforcement tools and no significant clarification of the ambiguous provisions of the law will produce more enforcement actions and yet not more compliance.

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Community

DLA Piper Chile opens white-collar crime practice

DLA Piper has launched its white-collar crime practice in Chile by hiring a partner from local criminal litigation boutique Cortés y Rodríguez Abogados to lead the area.

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Editor's picks

Microsoft unlikely to face bribery enforcement action in Hungary

Lawyers question whether Hungary’s untested corporate criminal liability law will hold up in the Microsoft bribery case, amid international pressure on the country to improve its anti-bribery enforcement.

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Interviews

Glenn Leon: “We view the engagement with our outside counsel as a partnership”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s chief ethics and compliance officer – and former federal prosecutor – Glenn Leon explains the situations in which he would...

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