Corporate fraud & corruption

February 2026  |  SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE FRAUD & CORRUPTION

Financier Worldwide Magazine

February 2026 Issue

New FCPA landscape: implications of the DOJ’s enforcement reset

Companies should expect to walk through their investigative timeline, methodology, custodial decisions, and remediation steps in a clear and defensible manner. The DOJ does not reward performance or optics. FW discusses the implications of the DOJ’s enforcement reset on the FCPA landscape with Didier Lavion and Jonathan T. Marks at BDO.

The DOJ’s shifting focus on trade-related crimes

Venable LLP The DOJ has devoted substantial resources to trade enforcement, and those efforts have already borne fruit. Even if some tariffs are pared by the Supreme Court, or otherwise lost in a logistical morass, market participants should not take such developments as a green light to flout trade laws

Recalibrating FCPA enforcement to focus on direct US interests

Bryn Law Group By recalibrating enforcement so that the focus is on conduct that undermines US firms or US employment, enforcement resources could be more tightly aligned with protecting US interests.

The FCPA enforcement landscape facing life sciences companies doing business abroad

Steptoe Under the second Trump administration, although FCPA enforcement in the pharmaceutical and device sector will likely remain active, its focus will most likely pivot so that it is more strategically aligned with the newly proclaimed economic and national security priorities.

Finalising the EU Anti-Corruption Directive to harmonise member state laws

DLA Piper The Directive is not limited to corruption offences in the strict sense, but also introduces regulations in the area of abuse of office and classic property criminal law. Its impact should not be underestimated.

CONTRIBUTORS

BDO

Bryn Law Group

DLA Piper

Steptoe

Venable LLP