2011 Was a Banner Year for FCPA Enforcements and Trials
January 9, 2012 at 10:14 am Editor Leave a comment
By Shannon Green
Published January 6, 2012, Corporate Counsel
It was another banner year for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department trying more cases in 2011 than in any other year. According to a year-end review released this week by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, enforcement actions also reached their second-highest level in the 34-year history of the act, with a total of 48. That number is down from an unprecedented 74 actions in 2010. (Last year’s statistics were skewed by a single large-scalesting operation.) Read more
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