Newsletters

05.06.16

Spotlight on the False Claims Act

This month we discuss two interesting court cases involving the False Claims Act (FCA).


04.06.16

Alert: DOJ Launches New FCPA Voluntary Disclosure Pilot Program

After several months of promising greater transparency relating to charging decisions for corporations that voluntarily disclose potential FCPA issues, on April 5, 2016, the Department of Justice announced the launch of a one-year Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) pilot program intended to, ...


03.24.16

Olympus Resolves Criminal and Civil Liability Under the FCA, FCPA and the Anti-Kickback Statutes

In a unique settlement combining domestic and foreign and criminal and civil corruption and false claims statutes, the DOJ announced on March 1, 2016 that medical equipment company Olympus Corp. of the Americas and its subsidiary Olympus Latin America, Inc. agreed to pay an aggregate of $646 ...


02.25.16

Eye on the Courts—Recent Opinions and Rulings of Note

From a white collar and securities fraud standpoint, there has been a lot of noteworthy activity in the courts of late.


01.21.16

The FCPA in 2016: DOJ and SEC Focus on International Cooperation and Investigation of Individuals

As we reported in our December 2015 newsletter, both SEC Enforcement Director Andrew Ceresney and DOJ Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell gave speeches on November 17, 2015 at the American Conference Institute's 32nd Annual International Conference on the FCPA reviewing their respective ...


12.07.15

White Collar Enforcement Omnibus Edition—Cyber Crimes, Sanctions and Spoofing, Oh My!

Since our last newsletter, a lot has been going on in white collar enforcement… so much so that we decided to devote an entire newsletter to it.


10.22.15

"Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" Part III

It is time for another installment in our continuing "Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" coverage into the ongoing constitutional challenges to the SEC's "in-house" administrative proceedings.


09.21.15

New DOJ Policy Alert: Here's Looking at You, Kid

On September 9, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued a memo to all DOJ department heads and U.S. Attorneys which detailed the Government's new policy centered on accountability for the individuals who are alleged to have perpetrated corporate misconduct.


09.08.15

No Dog Days of August for the SEC—a Recap of A Busy Month

Who says there is a government slowdown in August?


08.05.15

Are the Circuits A-Splitting?

On July 6, 2015, the Ninth Circuit in U.S. v. Salman declined to adopt a narrow interpretation, arguably set by the Second Circuit in U.S. v. Newman in 2014, of the "personal benefit" element of insider trading cases.