Anti-Corruption & Compliance Blog

The Department of Justice ("DOJ") is wasting no time in implementing the new cyber-security Executive Order (the EO), signed on February 28, 2024. As explained in our April 2024 blog post, the EO aims to portect Americans’ data security and is set to take effect next year. Within a week after it was signed, the DOJ (1 ...

Government officials underscored the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) enforcement and data protection during the American Bar Association’s 39^th National Institute on White Collar Crime in March 2024. Specifically, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco indicated during her presentation that the ...

Cybersecurity compliance, governance, and disclosure practices have evolved significantly over the past decade. As we have noted in prior blog posts, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring cybersecurity disclosures for public companies. But public companies are not alone in being subject to ...

As we look back on the anti-corruption enforcement trends we saw in 2023, there were several key developments.

• The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) brought 11 enforcement actions in 2023. Only six were against companies - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Corporacion Financiera Colombiana SA, Tysers ...

On September 28, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it reached a settlement with Exelon Corporation and its subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”), relating to charges that ComEd engaged in a multi-year bribery scheme. Exelon and ComEd agreed to pay a $46.2 ...

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, and the artificial intelligence chatbot quickly became the talk of the corporate world. With over 100 million users, ChatGPT is one of the fastest growing applications of all time. Since its onset, businesses faced issues related to employee use of ChatGPT to draft ...

Human Resources Compliance Audits (Part 2)

In this guest post by a member of Porter Hedges’ Labor & Employment practice group, the Anti-Corruption & Compliance Blog turns its focus to labor and employment law compliance. This post is the second installment of the Blog’s limited series discussing best ...

In this guest post by a member of Porter Hedges’ Labor & Employment practice group, the Anti-Corruption & Compliance Blog turns its focus to labor and employment law compliance. This post is the first installment of the Blog’s limited series discussing best practices for conducting a Human Resources ...

On February 22, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) United States Attorneys’ Offices (USAO) announced a new Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy that went into immediate effect. The purpose of the new policy is to create a standard for how voluntary self-disclosures (VSDs) are defined and credited by ...

The following summarizes our team’s monitoring of key developments in anti-corruption enforcement during 2022 and what that may mean going forward in this new year:

• The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) brought 17 enforcement actions in 2022. Only 5 were against companies: Honeywell, ABB, GOL Linhas Aereas ...