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Entries in Chamber of Commerce (20)

Wednesday
Apr172013

Wal-Mart’s Victims Part III: It’s Not a Playing Field At All

As we saw in Part II, the government has come to think that the FCPA’s chief purpose is to “level the playing field.” And much criticism of modern enforcement, especially from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, charges that it has failed to achieve that goal.

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Wednesday
Feb202013

Let’s just be honest for a moment… 

After waiting a polite three months following the release of the Government’s FCPA Guidance, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has issued a new letter renewing its call for additional FCPA guidance. 

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Wednesday
Nov142012

What's really inside the new guidance?

Just over a year after Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer first announced plans to issue “detailed new guidance on the [FCPA’s] criminal and civil enforcement provisions,” the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) today jointly issued this long-awaited formal guidance entitled A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“the Guide”).

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Friday
Oct192012

Where exactly is the FCPA guidance?

Late this summer, press outlets reported on anonymous claims that the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission likely would be releasing their long awaited FCPA Guidance in advance of an annual OECD Working Group on Bribery meeting on October 10, 2012.

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Wednesday
May022012

Giving Back To The Victims

In March the Nigerian human rights group SERAP (Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project) sent a letter to the SEC outlining one of the most altruistic FCPA amendments yet proposed.

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Wednesday
Apr182012

Jacobson: Immunity Plan Will Raise Enforcement Standards

We spoke this week with Billy Jacobson, the DOJ's former assistant chief for FCPA enforcement about his proposal that companies able to meet a five-part good-faith compliance test shouldn't face FCPA charges.

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Monday
Apr162012

Jacobson To DOJ: Fix FCPA Enforcement Policy

The former number two prosecutor in the DOJ's FCPA unit said companies that can meet a simple five-part good-faith compliance test shouldn't face FCPA charges.

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Friday
Feb242012

Don't Look For 'New' Guidance, Koehler Says

Mike Koehler of the FCPA Professor talked to Reuters' Brett Wolf this week about the DOJ's promised FCPA guidance.

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Wednesday
Jan252012

Beyond Balance: Reframing the FCPA Reform Debate

Thanks again to the FCPA Blog for sharing its space with me at this, a crucial point in FCPA history. Readers of this blog well know that since enacting the statute in 1977, we have amended it only twice -- in 1988 and 1998. We may now be gearing up to do so again.

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Monday
Jan162012

Crowd To Congress: Hands Off The FCPA

Thirty-three civil society and business groups are fighting efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to amend the FCPA.

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