Rafael Catalá, new minister of justice of the Spanish Government declared yesterday that his plan is to get the Spanish Congress to approve the reform of the Spanish Criminal Code by mid-March 2015. The first draft of the Criminal Code reform was approved by the Spanish Government in October 2013.…
On 25 November 2014, the Grand Coalition agreed to introduce a new law which will force listed companies…
Senior executives are sometimes indemnified against costs and expenses incurred as a result of legal proceedings that might…
On 1 October 2014, new guidelines issued by the Sentencing Council (the “Guidelines”) came into force for the sentencing of fraud, bribery and money laundering offences in the UK. The Guidelines apply to all individual offenders aged 18 and older and to organisations who are sentenced on or after 1…
A law requiring an upfront disclosure of beneficial ownership of companies to the Ukrainian authorities has been signed…
On 8 July 2014, the German Federal Court of Justice handed down a recently published decision which clarifies…
Violation Means Compliance Program Was By Definition Ineffective Stark Contrast With New Draft Canadian Guidance In a pair of noteworthy and ultimately disappointing recent speeches, leading U.S. antitrust enforcers delivered the message that while they expect companies to invest substantially in antitrust compliance programs, they will not consider a company’s…
In previous years, foreign-invested enterprises (“FIEs”) and their branches in China had the certainty that they would need…
For some time, a number of U.K. prosecutors, politicians, academics and others have advocated for the introduction of…
May 19, 2014 – The standing working group compliance of the Federation of German Corporations’ General Counsel (Bundesverband der Unternehmensjuristen, “BuJ”) has proposed a draft bill on corporate compliance. The working group’s proposal comprises a general obligation to compliance for all companies that operate in Germany. Together with the widely…