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China as a Compliance Rainforest
By Amy L. Sommers, Partner, K&L Gates, Shanghai Potential compliance challenges abound in China. That probably doesn’t sound like much of an insight. But think about China’s compliance landscape as...
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Bribery Risks in Clinical Trials
The healthcare industry has been hit hard by the FCPA. We have seen prosecutions for paying bribes and kickbacks to government physicians in Europe and some, like Johnson & Johnson and Smith &...
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Managing Compliance Costs through Risk-based Due Diligence
Third party due diligence is a key component of any robust compliance program. Many companies go to great lengths to vet third-party intermediaries, and with good reason – the overwhelming majority of...
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TRACE Enhances Anti-Bribery Compliance by Launching its Gifts, Travel &...
Last year, it became apparent that there was a strong need within our member community for a tool to make the process of tracking gifts, travel and hospitality easier. We focused our efforts on...
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Dangerous Associations
During the Spring of 2007, a California company called Online Micro purchased 1,000 computers from Dell Inc. Online Micro exported the computers to a company working in both Dubai, United Arab...
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Logging and Corruption
Corruption is a very high risk in the logging industry. To date, authorities have carried out very few high profile bribery investigations of companies in this sector, but governments are increasingly...
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Charities, Charitable Contributions and Corruption
By now, everyone must be familiar with the charitable giving of Schering Plough in Poland, which landed the company with a USD 500,000 fine, an injunction, and an obligatory compliance monitor. The...
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Shining the FCPA’s spotlight on clinical trials
On two recent occasions (here and here), we have noted the importance of compliance in clinical trials of pharmaceuticals and medical implants. A number of junctures in the clinical trials process...
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Chocolate for Children, not Children for Chocolate
Many of us were delighted to learn from a recently published study that eating chocolate might make us thinner, not fatter. That only added to the joy we felt a few years back, when we learned that...
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Alleviating the Burden of Compliance through Collective Action
A new book edited by one of the most distinguished names in the anti-corruption world offers insights into the use of collective action to combat international bribery. In Collective Action:...
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