On January 31, 2019, Italy’s new Law No. 3/2019 on “Measures to fight crimes against the public administration as well as on the matter of statute of limitations and transparency of political parties and movements” entered into force. This new law introduces important measures affecting Italian criminal law and significantly…
Read publication Welcome to the February 2019 edition of Baker McKenzie’s International Trade Compliance Update. Here are some…
Recent developments On 2 January 2019, the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China (MPS) issued…
Recent Update Almost immediately following the issuance of Supreme Court Regulation No. 13 of 2016 on Case Handling Procedures for Corporate Crimes (“Perma 13”) in December 2016, the Corruption Eradication Commission (“KPK”) named PT Nusa Konstruksi Enjiniring, Tbk (“NKE”, formerly PT Duta Graha Indah, Tbk), a publicly traded construction company, as a suspect in…
The Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong) (the “CO”) has been further amended by…
Transparency International (TI) has just released its 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI)[1]. The CPI continues to be an…
Leverage the value of connected compliance to your competitive advantage In the autumn of 2017, we spoke with more than 500 UK multinationals about their attitudes to compliance. This year, for the second edition of Connected Compliance we have expanded our research internationally, gathering data from 800 business leaders across…
On November 20, 2018, Law 21,121 was published (the “Law”), which introduced various modifications to Chilean criminal law…
On 26 October 2018, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed the revised PRC Criminal Procedure…
Announcement of Policy Revisions Reflects a More Practical, Flexible Enforcement Approach The US Justice Department has adjusted its approach to holding individuals, and not only corporations, responsible for improper conduct. In remarks at the ACI’s FCPA conference on November 29, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein softened the DOJ’s formal policy…