Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Reform: A Path Toward Practical Compliance
Date: 6 December 2011
Time: 7:30 – 8 a.m. Registration; 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Program and Lunch
Location: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; 1200 19th Street, N.W., Suite 300; Washington, D.C. 20036
Please join Squire, Sanders & Dempsey on December 6 for “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Reform: A Path Toward Practical Compliance.” This briefing, for clients and other interested parties, covers proposed amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) including a discussion with Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, Ranking Member of the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Our Global Compliance Solutions Practice Group and Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, LLC have conducted a strategic assessment of FCPA reform legislation. Interested compliance and advocacy professionals are being brought together in a workshop format to discuss possible amendments to the Act and related topics, which may include:
- Adding a compliance defense
- Limiting a company’s liability for the prior actions of a company it has acquired
- Adding a “willfulness” requirement for corporate criminal liability
- Limiting a company’s liability for acts of a subsidiary
- Defining a “foreign official” under the statute
- Possible issuance of new FCPA guidelines from the Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Impact of FCPA reform on DOJ investigations and prosecutions