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THE Book On The FCPA, Including China.

By Dan Harris on Posted in Legal News

New York mega-firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed (home of eDiscovery guru and friend Ross Lipman) has just come out with its incredibly current, helpful and thorough “FCPA/Anti-Bribery Mid-Year Alert 2010“ (h/t The FCPA Blog).  

If you are doing business in or with China or with any foreign country, you must put this Mid-Year Alert on your reading list and then you must actually read it. It covers recent events in China throughout and it also has a section devoted to exactly that. 

  • Chris

    The Mid-Year alert is comprehensive and important. For non-lawyers, it’s also relatively easy to comprehend. The large number of cases covered are very useful as are the details of what constituted bribery and why. Highly recommended. The article is long and very detailed and by the end readers will have a comprehensive understanding of global actions against bribery, and broad principles of what is permissable and what isn’t. Important because while direct bribery or in-kind payments would not be approved within most companies, the FCPA and the imminent UK Bribery Act hold companies responsible for the actions of 3rd parties. Important to have robust due diligence, management and compliance systems for 3rd party agents, suppliers, distributors and partners. It is in this area many companies would be at risk as most would not have considered the actions of those 3rd parties their responsibility.