When the Justice Department recently settled corruption charges against the Swiss-Swedish
engineering firm ABB Ltd., it did so in large part based on the firm's cooperation with the …

In recent years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) have enforced the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) with increasing …

In 2006, US enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was bookended by
major policy pronouncements by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the …

In 1977, shocked by a series of corruption scandals involving American companies,
Congress hastily passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). I The world's first statute …

Congress enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (" FCPA") in 1977 to address the
problem of corruption in international business transactions. The Act criminalizes payments …

In 2007, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) saw its thirtieth anniversary.'Although its
first twenty-five years were relatively quiet, the f Bank One Corporation Assistant Professor of …

In 1974, Nicolas Sanchez and Alan R. Waters wrote that"[c] orruption is like sex was in
Victorian England: it absorbs intense activity and is the subject of much speculation, but it is …

As the number of markets available to multi-national corporations grow, concerns over
foreign bribery used to tap those markets have similarly grown. 1 In the United States, the …

In deciding whether to invest in developing markets, business leaders must take into
account ambiguities in American law.'Corporations entering into developing markets face a" …

Counsel to US corporations increasingly remark that enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act (FCPA)'deters foreign investment. 2 This concern is not new and, perhaps …