December 2021 Issue
Q&A: Trade-based money laundering investigations
FW discusses trade-based money laundering investigations with Adil Raza and Toni Weirauch at BDO.
Rising cooperation and coordination in global anticorruption enforcement
WilmerHale The most significant trend in anticorruption enforcement over the last five-plus years has been the increase in cooperation and coordination among global authorities. The US enforcement authorities – historically the world’s primary anticorruption enforcers – have been increasingly…
Navigating issues in cross-border investigations
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP It is beyond peradventure that financial crime constitutes a clear and present danger to financial stability in our global economy. In a world where financial crime knows no boundaries, various jurisdictions are attempting to tackle this scourge. As cross-border investigations…
Silicon Valley meets Washington: federal regulation and enforcement of the cryptocurrency industry
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP In recent months, we have witnessed an explosion of digital assets. We have moved from a bitcoin-only world to a multiverse of altcoins, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, non-fungible tokens and decentralised finance (DeFi). This rapid expansion of the cryptoverse and its…
Companies in the dock – how the law on corporate criminal liability in the UK is facing changes
Peters & Peters What criminal offences can a company commit? Which acts should count as the company’s? Whose conduct is the company criminally responsible for? These questions have long vexed prosecutors seeking to prosecute companies for certain offences. The issue of corporate criminal liability…
Current trends in white-collar crime in Germany
Feigen · Graf Since the former chief executive of Deutsche Post AG was arrested for tax evasion in front of running cameras in 2008, the prosecution of white-collar crimes has increasingly become a focus of public attention in Germany. In recent years, hardly a month has passed without reports on…
Cum-ex – recent questionable milestones in German legislation and case law
Clifford Chance Cum-ex – a form of securities trading around dividend date designed to receive multiple refunds of dividend withholding tax that had only been paid once – has long been said to be the biggest tax fraud in German or even European history, with Germany allegedly being hit hardest…
Is domestic corruption alive and flourishing in Australia?
Johnson Winter & Slattery Australia believes that corruption does not exist in the country, or if it does, it tends to be limited to certain areas of state government activities, particularly associated with land and property developments and the allocation of public funds for partisan political purposes…
Q&A: Ethics and compliance in the remote working era
FW discusses ethics and compliance in the remote working era with Tamara Quailey-Tulloch at Brown Rudnick LLP, Andrés Felipe Sáenz at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Matthew Nunan at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP and Martin Bischof at Sandoz.
CONTRIBUTORS
BDO
Brown Rudnick LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance
Feigen · Graf
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP
Johnson Winter & Slattery
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Peters & Peters
Sandoz
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
WilmerHale