In most countries, allegations of corruption committed in the context of the Oil for Food program were either settled or dismissed. French authorities, however, embarked on lengthy investigations and proceedings, and by the time the Oil for Food cases reached French courts for trial, several defendants had already entered into a plea agreement or a deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S. for their misconduct, leaving France to face issues of transnational double jeopardy. In a guest article, Hogan Lovells attorneys Antonin Lévy and Ophelia Claude discuss these cases and what they say about how countries should handle global corruption cases in the era of international cooperation. See “An Insider’s Take on France’s New Approach to Foreign Corruption” (May 16, 2018).