Topic: Corporate liability

Featured in Investigator's Guide to New York

“We expect platinum-level compliance from your platinum-level clients”, Daniel Gitner, the criminal chief at the Manhattan US attorney’s office, told an audience at GIR Live New York on Tuesday.

21 September 2022

In the latest counsel watch, GIR looks at the teams acting for Brazilian airline GOL, telecommunications company Ericsson, banks Barclays and Morgan Stanley, and engineering company Jacobs Group in recent white-collar cases.

20 September 2022

Carrier GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes is set to pay over $41 million to resolve allegations brought by US authorities and the Brazilian Comptroller General of the Union and Attorney General’s Office in a coordinated settlement.

16 September 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Brazil

Brazilian federal prosecutors have spoken about the challenging environment they face when conducting corporate corruption investigations.

15 September 2022

A gambling watchdog also took aim at Star Entertainment’s in-house lawyers for wrongly asserting legal privilege to withhold documents from Australia’s anti-money laundering enforcer.

13 September 2022

A gambling company under investigation for failing to prevent bribery has been hit with a record fine for breaching industry compliance rules around suspicious funds in a separate probe.

17 August 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Brazil

Brazil’s highest court is considering the retroactivity of two main aspects of the country’s Administrative Improbity Act used to establish civil liability against companies and public officials in bribery or public corruption cases.

12 August 2022

After recently announcing an SEC investigation related to the company’s conduct in the Middle East, the telecommunications company faces a private suit from US military members accusing it of making “protection payments” to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

08 August 2022

01 August 2022

Prosecutors in the Netherlands have ended a probe into alleged bribery by Shell in Nigeria, citing double jeopardy rules.

21 July 2022