As Mexico works towards implementing its new National Anti-Corruption System, the largest foreign bribery case in history, arising out of Brazil, serves to h

In the months leading up to President Trump's inauguration and even during his first 100 days in office, speculation has persisted on whether white-collar enforcement will continue to be robust and, if so, which areas will be targeted. 

President Trump's 2012 criticism of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is well-documented. 

Healthcare fraud enforcement, which has received much less media attention than Republican-led efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's administration, nevertheless had some key developments that provide signals for future trends in the space. 

Marking a rare loss for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its favored administrative forum, SEC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) James E. 

On April 18, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kokesh v. Securities and Exchange Commission—a case which could determine whether the Securities and Exchange Commission's power to disgorge ill-gotten gains is subject to a statute of limitations.  

The U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ")'s Criminal Fraud Section recently issued guidance for corporate compliance programs in a document titled Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs ("Fraud Section Guidance"), which reflects a number of notable differences from prior guidance on similar issues. 

In this two-part series, we recap the confirmation hearing highlights of President Donald Trump's nominee for chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, who testified before the Senate Banking Committee on March 23, 2017. 

President Donald Trump's nominee for chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, testified before the Senate Banking Committee during his confirmation hearing on March 23, 2017.  

The month of March has brought with it the first-ever criminal municipal bond securities fraud conviction, the resolution of enforcement actions targeting banks and senior executives accused of shirking duties to oversee municipal bond issuances, and proposed rule amendments intended to improve municipal securities disclosures—continuing a trend of intensified regulatory enforcement that target

On March 10, 2017, at the annual ABA White Collar Conference in Miami, Kenneth Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ's Criminal Division, announced that the FCPA Pilot Program would stay in place beyond its current April 5, 2017 expiration date so the DOJ could "begin the process of evaluating the utility and the efficacy, whether to extend it and what revisions if any we should

For many corporate executives in the food industry, the U.S.

The air of uncertainty was palpable as current and former members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement spoke at the Securities Regulation Institute's 44th Annual Conference in Coronado, California earlier this week.  

Mexico's new anti-corruption system, which was signed into law by President Enrique Peña Nieto on July 18, 2016, builds on constitutional reforms passed in May 2015 and is designed to increase oversight of public officials to deter corruption at all levels of the Mexican government. 

Analysis of public sources indicates that under the Obama administration, the U.S. government has made substantial efforts to combat trade secret theft through an increase by the U.S. Department of Justice in the number of criminal trade secret prosecutions.