Region: England

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Companies are increasingly finding themselves under scrutiny: from government enforcement actions, media probes, whistleblower claims and more. GIR invited six leading specialists to explore how firms should position themselves over the coming years to meet an increased demand for effective and prudent investigations.

30 April 2018

16 March 2018

An English district judge has blocked a request on 7 December to allow SBM Offshore vice-president Stephen Whiteley to return to his home in Malaysia while out on bail, labelling him a flight risk.

07 December 2017

04 August 2017

English lawyers don’t understand the DPA process as much as their colleagues in the US ­– the birthplace of the agreements – the head of the UK Serious Fraud Office said on 10 November.

10 November 2016

Tony Woodcock and Ellen Gallagher of Stephenson Harwood in London look at how companies regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority should handle internal investigations, including issues of self-reporting, disclosure and handling employee conflicts of interest

27 October 2016

30 August 2016

A French prosecutor has welcomed a bill that would introduce a DPA-style settlement tool in France, a day after the lower house of the French parliament voted to approve it.

16 June 2016

29 March 2016

The Standard Bank UK DPA illustrates how cooperation with law enforcement authorities can work in practice, says the SFO's general counsel Alun Milford. Marieke Breijer in Prague

22 March 2016