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Anti-Corruption
Fighting Corruption Should Be a Government, Corporate and Global Effort: More emphasis should be placed on incentivizing compliance
Last year was the biggest enforcement year for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases handled by the fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. The year also illustrated an unprecedented level of multijurisdictional deferred prosecution agreements involving not only the...
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Backstory: Reconnect Redux
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2016 Law Department Management Report has a bit of a good news-bad news flavor to it. The good news is that law departments continue to gain “greater access to the inner sanctums where decisions are made,” as ACC puts it in its executive...
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ACC Global Chair Pursues Global Priorities: In-house group seeks cross-border perspective on legal issues
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) recently elected a global board of directors, with Iohann Le Frapper, general counsel of industrial financing firm ChetWode, named chair. Le Frapper is a truly global in-house professional with stints in the EU, the Middle East and Asia across multiple...
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