Region: Brazil

In the latest People News round up, the UK’s financial regulator has recruited veteran civil servant Stephen Roman to serve as its general counsel, and Fried Frank, Cooley and Hughes Hubbard & Reed nab US prosecutors.

07 December 2021

26 November 2021

Swiss prosecutors have slapped SBM Offshore with a $7.6 million fine for bribery offences, closing another chapter in the Dutch oil company’s protracted efforts to put historic corruption behind it.

23 November 2021

11 November 2021

Lawyers in London and Brasília have helped Rolls-Royce resolve the final Brazilian strand of a long-running corruption case and Morrison & Foerster has steered a Chinese electronics company to a settlement over claims it sold millions of defective dehumidifiers.

04 November 2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission has made a preliminary determination to commence proceedings against miner Vale over alleged violations linked to the deadly collapse of the Brumadinho dam in Brazil.

29 October 2021

UK engineering company Rolls-Royce has reached a $27.8 million settlement with two Brazilian authorities over allegations it bribed public officials in the country.

27 October 2021

A US court has ordered the extradition of former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo to his home country to face corruption and money laundering charges.

30 September 2021

A review body within the São Paulo prosecutor’s office has thrown out a 2020 corruption resolution that prosecutors signed with EcoRodovias due to a lack of evidence of illegal conduct by the transportation company.

23 September 2021

22 September 2021