FCPA: What is Your Compliance Strategy?

Spring 14Do you have a strategy? The Houston Astros claim to have a strategy that involves being the worst team in baseball for up to the next five years and then magically they will become a winner. I suppose that having the worst record in baseball demonstrates that they are on the right path. Another three game series, another three game sweep by the visiting team, thus ending three games of some of the most pathetic baseball I have ever seen. Weiterlesen

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Siemens Sued by Tipster Claiming Retaliation Over FCPA Allegations He Raised

IMG_0979Legal Reform News Daily / Wall Street Journal
WSJ.com Corruption Currents
A Taiwanese man filed a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday against Siemens, arguing he was fired for raising corruption concerns to senior executives while working as a regional compliance officer in China.

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FCPA: DPAs and NPAs – Useful Tools to Achieve Compliance

Spring 13The debate on whether the use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) has become lively again over the past couple of weeks. Last week, there was a panel hosted by the Corporate Crime Reporter conference at the National Press Club. The panel was moderated by Steven Fagell, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, and the panelists included Denis McInerney, the Criminal Division’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General, David Uhlmann, the former chief of the Environmental Crimes Section at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and currently a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, the FCPA Professor, Michael Koehler, Kathleen Harris, a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP in London, and Anthony Barkow, a partner at Jenner & Block in New York. Weiterlesen

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ILR: Banks say new agency’s oversight is slow, costly

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Associated Press:
Bankers and financial industry leaders are criticizing the early efforts of the government’s new consumer finance watchdog, saying a slow and inefficient oversight process has slowed lending and made it more difficult for them to do business.

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FCPA: From the Compact Model to the Luxury Model – Managing Your Third Party Risk

Spring 12I am currently attending the Hanson Wade Oil and Gas Supply Chain Compliance conference in Houston. The event is excellent and the presentations have been ‘spot on’ for the nuts and bolts of how to do compliance. As the conference is in Houston, a number of the speakers and attendees are from energy companies but the concepts that are being discussed apply to all companies which have an anti-corruption or anti-bribery compliance program. Weiterlesen

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ILR: Jury Still Out on Schapiro’s SEC Enforcement Legacy

IMG_0959Legal Reform News Daily / Wall Street Journal
WSJ.com Corruption Currents:
The final enforcement stats are in for Mary Schapiro’s tenure at the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it may be to early to make any pronouncements about her legacy.

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ILR: ‘Judicial Arbitration’ Is Unconstitutional, Say Newspapers

IMG_0955Legal Reform News Daily / Wall Street Journal
WSJ.com Law Blog:
Should the nation’s premier forum for corporate litigation have the right to arbitrate business disputes in secret?

Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/01/15/judicial-arbitration-is-unconstitutional-say-newspapers/?KEYWORDS=%22us+chamber%22&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=&utm_content=

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The New York Family Office – Newsletter 1. Quartal 2013

U.S.-Newsletter von Arne Volkers: Newsletter_Q1_2013

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ILR: EDITORIAL: Never a shortage of ridiculous lawsuits in U.S. courts

IMG_0934Legal Reform News Daily                                                   Oklahoman:
After his 12-year-old son – yes, 12 – was sued last year by a woman who got conked by the boy’s errant throw at a Little League baseball game, Bob Migliaccio of Asbury Park, N.J., told his local newspaper he wasn’t shocked because “people sue every day.” Do they ever.

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American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

Änderungen der US-Steuern aufgrund der Steuerreform 2012 : BPLLC Newsletter April 2013

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