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Perspective

Jul. 21, 2011

Debate rages over FCPA enforcement: a 30,000-foot perspective

Not suffering in silence anymore, businesses push back with proposed amendments to FCPA enforcement. By Mike Emmick of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP


A debate is raging about the scope and direction of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign public officials in order to obtain business.


The debate surrounds the dramatic increase, over the past five years, in FCPA prosecutions and penalties - a period that the U.S. Department of Justice proudly refers to as "the new era of FCPA enforcement." In 2005, there were just two such criminal fili...

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