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United States: This Week in Government Enforcement (Video Chat)

October 15, 2022 by 13 Mins Read

Please join us for a weekly series, hosted by Baker McKenzie’s North America Government Enforcement partners Jeffrey Martino and Jerome Tomas.
This weekly briefing is available on demand and will cover hot topics and current enforcement actions related to white collar crime and criminal investigations in the US and abroad to arm you with the information you need for your business week.
This week’s discussion covers Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s memorandum revising Federal Corporate Criminal Enforcement Policies.

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United States: Latest Monaco Memo addresses key areas of the Department of Justice policy on Corporate Criminal Enforcement

October 7, 2022 by Geoff Martin, Maria Piontkovska, Maurice Bellan, Reagan R. Demas, William Devaney, Terence Gilroy, Jessica Nall, Jerome Tomas, Peter P. Tomczak, Brian L. Whisler and Nancy Rosenfeld 3 Mins Read

On 15 September 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco issued a memorandum to Department of Justice prosecutors entitled “Further Revisions to Corporate Criminal Enforcement Policies Following Discussions with Corporate Crime Advisory Group”. As has become common in recent years (with a brief intermission under Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who objected to the practice), such memoranda and other Department pronouncements have come to herald key developments in DOJ policy on corporate criminal enforcement and related practice. These memoranda are therefore closely watched by the defense bar and corporate counsel alike.

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Government Procurement Update

October 4, 2022 by Brian L. Whisler, Maurice Bellan, Graham Cronogue, Aleesha Fowler, Martine Gaetan, Kristen E. Lloyd, Creighton Macy, Jeffrey (Jeff) D. Martino, Jennifer Ancona Semko, Mark G. Weiss and Audrey van Duyn 1 Min Read

Baker McKenzie’s Government Procurement Update resource center gives you the latest guidance, trends and enforcement actions related to government procurement (both US government contracting and international financing institutions), including suspension and debarment, bid protests, and False Claims Act defense. Calling upon our deep bench of more than 4,000 lawyers and legal professionals worldwide, we will occasionally feature guest practitioners to write about related topics in the criminal, civil, and administrative context. Readers can expect to find practical guidance and tips for compliance with public procurement policies as well as best practices for managing government inquiries and litigation.

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Global: GIR Guide to Compliance

September 16, 2022 by Mini vandePol, Christine Cuthbert, Gerald Lam, Andrea Kan, Yuki Yung, Gareth Austin, Michelle Rae Heisner, Andrew Martin and Georgie Farrant 2 Mins Read

The Guide to Compliance, published by Global Investigations Review (GIR), brings together compliance guidance and criminal enforcement trends relating to financial crimes and misconduct. Baker McKenzie partners have contributed two chapters in GIR’s guide.

The chapter on Asia Pacific Compliance Enforcement covers key areas of enforcement priorities, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and other key criminal offenses affecting multinational corporations, and provides an overview of emerging compliance issues and enforcement trends relevant to cross-border business.

The chapter on Compliance Issues in Corporate Transactions covers key compliance areas in due diligence, how to go about an effective assessment of compliance policies and procedures or issues in third-party dealings, and the process of remediating any compliance issues identified during due diligence.

* An extract from the first edition of GIR’s The Guide to Compliance. The whole publication is available at the GIR website.

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Global: Annual Compliance Conference | 6 September – 6 October

August 31, 2022 by Paul E. Amberg, Brian Cacic, Fiona Carlin, Kate Corby, Stephen Crosswell, Jannan Crozier, Borys Y. Dackiw, Reagan R. Demas, Meredith A. DeMent, Henry Garfield, Yindi Gesinde, Terence Gilroy, Tristan J. Grimmer, Kurt Haegeman, Joanna (Jo) Hewitt, Fung (Simon) Hui, Rod Hunter, Teisha C. Johnson, Olof König, Sylwia A. Lis, Montserrat Llopart, Nicole Looks, Joanna Ludlam, Sunny Mann, Geoff Martin, Jeffrey (Jeff) D. Martino, David McCredie, Samantha J. Mobley, Lerisha Naidu, María Carolina Pardo Cuéllar, Anne Petterd, Philippe Reich, Jennifer F. Revis, Francesca Richmond, James Robinson, Ana Royuela, Douglas (Doug) B. Sanders, Dr. Anika Schürmann LL.M., Ben Smith, Katharina Spenner LL.M., Alison J. Stafford Powell, Graham J. Stuart, Virusha Subban, Eric Thianpiriya, Anahita Thoms LL.M., Mini vandePol, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Julia M. Wilson, Lionel Van Reet, Reggie Mezu, Ario Dehghani, Serge Pannatier, Hanna Shtepa, Elizabeth Denham, Miriam Allena, Mara Ioana Ghiorghies, Julian Godfray, Adeel Haque, Eunkyung Kim Shin, Rachel MacLeod, Jessica Mutton, Karoline (Karolina) Phillips, Joanne Redmond, Andrew Rose and Paulo Casagrande 1 Min Read

The Annual Compliance Conference begins next week and attracts over 6,000 in-house senior legal and compliance professionals from across the world. This leading compliance conference will be held across five weeks from 6 September – 6 October 2022. We will be virtually delivering our cutting-edge insights and guidance on key global compliance, investigations and ethics issues. Our global experts will provide practical insights and analysis on significant developments:
• anti-bribery
• corruption and economic crime
• customs and FTAs
• ESG, supply chain and product compliance
• antitrust and competition
• export controls, sanctions and foreign investment

Click here to view the full agenda and register your interest in joining us virtually at this must attend global compliance conference for senior in-house legal and compliance professionals.

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Global: Annual Compliance Conference (6 September – 6 October 2022)

July 18, 2022 by Paul E. Amberg, Brian Cacic, Fiona Carlin, Kate Corby, Stephen Crosswell, Jannan Crozier, Borys Y. Dackiw, Reagan R. Demas, Meredith A. DeMent, Henry Garfield, Yindi Gesinde, Terence Gilroy, Tristan J. Grimmer, Kurt Haegeman, Joanna (Jo) Hewitt, Fung (Simon) Hui, Rod Hunter, Teisha C. Johnson, Olof König, Sylwia A. Lis, Montserrat Llopart, Nicole Looks, Joanna Ludlam, Sunny Mann, Geoff Martin, Jeffrey (Jeff) D. Martino, David McCredie, Samantha J. Mobley, Lerisha Naidu, María Carolina Pardo Cuéllar, Anne Petterd, Philippe Reich, Jennifer F. Revis, Francesca Richmond, James Robinson, Ana Royuela, Douglas Sanders, Dr. Anika Schürmann LL.M., Ben Smith, Katharina Spenner LL.M., Alison J. Stafford Powell, Graham J. Stuart, Virusha Subban, Eric Thianpiriya, Anahita Thoms LL.M., Mini vandePol, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Julia M. Wilson, Lionel Van Reet, Reggie Mezu, Ario Dehghani, Serge Pannatier, Hanna Shtepa, Elizabeth Denham, Miriam Allena, Mara Ioana Ghiorghies, Julian Godfray, Adeel Haque, Eunkyung Kim Shin, Rachel MacLeod, Jessica Mutton, Karoline (Karolina) Phillips, Joanne Redmond, Andrew Rose and Paulo Casagrande 1 Min Read

Annual Compliance Conference

Our popular Annual Compliance Conference, which attracts over 6,000 in-house senior legal and compliance professionals from across the world, will be held across five weeks from 6 September – 6 October 2022. We will be virtually delivering our cutting-edge insights and guidance on key global compliance, investigations and ethics issues. Our global experts will provide practical insights and analysis on significant developments across:
– anti-bribery
– corruption and economic crime
– customs and FTAs
– ESG, supply chain and product compliance
– antitrust and competition
– export controls, sanctions and foreign investment

Click https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/events/2022/10/annual-compliance-conference to register your interest in joining us virtually at this must attend global compliance conference for senior in-house legal and compliance professionals.

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Russia: Corporate anti-corruption enforcement and key issues on compliance programmes and their enforcement

June 23, 2022 by Baker McKenzie 1 Min Read

Baker McKenzie attorneys Paul Melling, Roman Butenko and Oleg Tkachenko contributed two articles to GIR – Europe, Middle East and Africa Investigations Review 2022 Digital Edition. The first article provides an overview of recent corporate anti-bribery enforcement trends and, taking into account those trends, tries to sum up the most important lessons to be learned by companies that strive to build compliant businesses in Russia. The second article is dedicated to key issues on compliance programs and their enforcement in Russia. The article provides an overview of recent anti-bribery and legislative corruption measures and the guidance provided to the Russian business community with regard to those measures and their enforcement.

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Venezuela: National Assembly reforms law against corruption

June 11, 2022 by Jesús A. Dávila, Maria de Los Angeles Celis, Adriana Goncalves, Marie Roschelle Carolina Quintero Sabino and Maria Uzcategui 1 Min Read

On 2 May 2022, the National Assembly published the Partial Reform Law with the Rank, Value and Force of Law Against Corruption (“Reform”).
The Reform introduced, among others: (i) a broader definition of “Public Patrimony”; (ii) the obligation for electronic filing of the Sworn Statement of Net Worth through the creation of an automated system under the direction of the Office of the General Comptroller of the Republic; (iii) the annual update of the Affidavit; (iv) an increase in the sanctions by changing the Tax Unit for the official exchange rate of the currency of the highest value published by the Central Bank of Venezuela at the time of the payment; and (v) the unpaid suspension term for public officers.

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Italy: Sunshine Act approved

June 6, 2022 by Roberto Cursano and Riccardo Ovidi 2 Mins Read

On 24 May 2022, the bill on ‘Transparency rules on relationships between manufacturing companies, healthcare professionals and organizations’ (“Sunshine Act”) was finally approved. The Sunshine Act will enter into force after its publication in the Official Gazette.

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Australia: What you need to know about Political Donations Laws ahead of the 2022 Federal Election

May 21, 2022 by Georgie Farrant and Gareth Austin 4 Mins Read

The federal election is slated for 21 May 2022 and it is important to be aware of your obligations when it comes to political donations to ensure you are compliant with any disclosure requirements under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 19189 (Cth) (“Electoral Act”).
Not only do offences under the Electoral Act carry fines but non-compliance with political donations laws can lead to significant reputational risk in an area that frequently makes headlines.
This federal election is also the first since reforms in December 2021 tightened the laws relating to political donations in relation to foreign donors.