Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

Anti-Corruption

Roderick L. Thomas, Mark B. Sweet | Wiley Rein LLP

Part II of this article appeared in the March, 2012 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and can be found here. Government investigations can have profound effects on a company. The mere initiation of an investigation can disrupt operations, discourage morale, and, in some cases,...

Anti-Corruption

Stephen M. Nickelsburg, Adam T. Klauder, Simone M. Peek | Clifford Chance

Medical device companies that do business in emerging markets face the prospect of great reward as well as great risk. Increasingly, one of the major risks is exposure to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") and similar international anti-bribery laws and regulations. A key...

Anti-Corruption

Michael J. Coursey | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Foreign party fraud is rampant in many of the federal government's enforcement proceedings against imports from China under the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) laws. This is not to say that fraud taints all, or even most, AD and CVD proceedings against Chinese imports. But...