Top Government and Private FCPA Practitioners Discuss Global Enforcement, Self-Reporting, Facilitation Payments, M&A Due Diligence, Jurisdiction and NPAs

It’s been a busy year in FCPA compliance and enforcement – including leadership changes at the DOJ; the SEC’s first-ever NPA; an apparent decline in enforcement actions followed by a recent upswing; a growing, active global anti-corruption community; a new Canadian anti-corruption regime; and increased emphasis on merger and acquisition due diligence in the private sector, among other things.  At a recent panel hosted by the Practising Law Institute during its “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and International Anti-Corruption Law Developments 2013” program, distinguished FCPA lawyers in both the private and public spheres distilled the most important trends in the field – and sometimes disagreed about what they mean for both outside and in-house counsel who deal with anti-corruption issues.  Mark Mendelsohn, partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP moderated the May 2, 2013 panel, with help from Richard Grime, a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP.  The panel was comprised of Roger Witten of WilmerHale and Danforth Newcomb of Shearman & Sterling LLP on the private side, and Jason Jones, Assistant Chief of the FCPA Unit, Fraud Section, Criminal Division at the DOJ, and Charles Cain, Deputy Chief, FCPA Unit, Division of Enforcement at the SEC, on the public side.

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