Top FCPA Enforcers Tout Voluntary Disclosure and Warn About International Cooperation; The Defense Bar Responds

At what has become a traditional annual speech summarizing the year in FCPA developments, Kara Brockmeyer, Chief of the FCPA Unit of the Division of Enforcement of the SEC and Patrick Stokes, Deputy Chief of the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the DOJ, beat the government self-reporting drum, warned about increasing international anti-corruption enforcement and cautioned companies to re-evaluate confidentiality agreements they use during internal investigations.  The Anti-Corruption Report talked to prominent FCPA practitioners to get their take on this year’s speech at American Conference Institute's International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  They said the significance of the speech lay in the tone and topics emphasized.  See our coverage of last year’s speech here and here.

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