Sentencing practices in US white collar cases vary more widely between districts than they do between judges, and it is difficult to understand exactly why, the Fraud Section’s former head of litigation told GIR on the occasion of his moving to private practice.
Consultancy Forensic Risk Alliance has asked a London court to force a former employee to destroy sensitive documents he has allegedly obtained from the firm.
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued one of its biggest-ever penalties to Spanish lender Santander's UK business for failing to prevent its customers from potentially laundering hundreds of millions of pounds.
In the latest people news roundup, Squire Patton Boggs has recruited a senior official from the US Justice Department and a former UK enforcement lawyer is set to join WilmerHale.
Andrii Derkach was sanctioned in 2020 for his involvement in a disinformation campaign targeting, among others, US President Joe Biden.
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GIR reveals the winners of the 8th annual awards ceremony, including the recipients of the Most Impressive Investigations Practice, the Investigations Professional of the Year and the Outstanding Career awards.
GIR is pleased to reveal the GIR 30 – the ranking to the best law firms for complex multijurisdictional corporate investigations. This year’s edition marks one firm’s first-ever entry into the top 30 and sees the return of another after a seven-year absence.
Brazilian prosecutors have stopped cooperating with their Peruvian counterparts on a high-profile corruption case over concerns about Peru’s use of evidence against a Brazilian construction company.
Government investigators are now able to request information directly from communication service providers, including major tech companies
ABB’s demonstration of intent to self-disclose bribery misconduct before a media report broke helped the repeat FCPA offender obtain a parent-level DPA, the principal associate deputy attorney general said.
A UK anti-corruption expert has suggested lawyers should be limited from putting client interests over moral concerns through stricter rules and harsher penalties for non-compliance.
Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and current chief financial officer at the company, agreed to a four-year DPA, back-dated to the time of her arrest in 2018, in 2021.
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The head of the DOJ’s fraud section said in-house lawyers should make the most of their resources when introducing data analytics into their company’s compliance programme, and indicated that more enforcement actions …
Speaking at a GIR Live conference in London on Thursday, Lesley Davey outlined the company’s response to sanctions on Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Justice Department and SEC officials want companies under investigation to present the rules they have in place for employees’ usage of such messaging platforms.
In the latest roundup, Swiss lender Credit Suisse has brought in a new chief compliance officer after her predecessor was in the role for just one year, while several law firms have …
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