On August 6, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) published new guidance on the steps companies should take in order to receive cooperation credit in the SFO’s chargi...
In a speech on July 11, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that, for the first time, DOJ will con...
The Supreme Court in Kisor v. Wilkie has declined to overrule Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., instead narrowing deference to a federal agency’s interpretation of...
The Supreme Court has updated an important Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) exemption for the digital age. In Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, the Supreme Court thi...
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced an updated version of the Criminal Division’s...
On March 6, 2019, CFTC Director of Enforcement James McDonald said the agency is pursuing foreign corrupt practices that constitute violations of the Commodities Exchange Act, with some i...
On August 24, 2018, the Second Circuit held in
United States v. Hoskins
that a nonresident foreign national cannot be found liable for violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Fore...
On June 25, 2018, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an amended decision in United States v. Martoma. In its initial decision, the Second Circuit e...
On June 12, 2018, the New York Court of Appeals overruled longstanding Appellate Division precedent and held that fraud claims brought by the New York Attorney General (“NYAG”) under ...
On May 9, 2018, in remarks to the New York City Bar Association’s Seventh Annual White Collar Crime Institute, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new Department of Justi...
