By now, most corporate compliance and ethics officers are aware of the Trump administration’s shift in priorities.

Recent guidance on US enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has significantly altered the landscape for cross-border ...

Jeff Brown, Evan Flowers and Clare Barnard of Dechert LLP discuss developments in the U.S. and UK in connection with global ...

The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But now, President Trump has said that this anti-corruption ...

This is the introduction to one of US President Donald Trump’s executive orders signed earlier in the year.

President Donald Trump’s executive order to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may appear odd to the casual observer. Passed in 1977, the FCPA established both civil and criminal ...

That’s just one of the fictions underpinning its ill-advised decision last month to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a move that threatens to unravel decades of progress ...

Trump said at the time that enforcement of a federal antibribery law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, puts American firms at a disadvantage to foreign rivals that can engage in conduct ...

[Editor’s note: A Feb. 10 executive order has halted investigations and enforcement actions under the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for a 180-day “review,” claiming, without presenting ...

On 10 February 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for 180 days.