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FCPA charges dismissed against foreign executive for lack of personal jurisdiction

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

In SEC v. Sharef, No. 11-9073 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 19, 2013), the SEC alleged that seven former executives at Siemens AG and its subsidiaries had

Foreign executive can be liable under FCPA for affecting false SEC filings

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

In SEC v. Straub, No. 11-9645 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 8, 2013), the SEC alleged that executives of a Hungarian telecommunications company Magyar Telekom, Plc

Failure to protect emails after adoption of computer use policy waived privilege

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 13 2013

In United States v. Hamilton, 701 F.3d 404 (4th Cir. 2012) (No. 11-4847), the Fourth Circuit held that it was not an abuse of discretion by the

No right to access stored communications obtained in WikiLeaks investigation

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 13 2013

The Fourth Circuit rejected requests to unseal documents obtained from Twitter, Inc., obtained during a criminal investigation into the unauthorized

Two Federal Court decisions analyze due process limits on asserting personal jurisdiction over non-U.S. employees of public companies in FCPA cases

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2013

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), enacted more than 35 years ago, inherently targets conduct occurring outside the United States. Moreover, it

Failure to reveal internal investigation was not securities fraud

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 14 2013

In In re Boston Scientific Corp. Securities Litigation, 686 F.3d 21 (1st Cir. 2012) (No. 11-2250), a putative class action suit was brought by

Dodd-Frank whistleblower suit continues although initial report pre-dates act

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

A New York federal court refused to dismiss a whistleblower claims in a putative class action accusing a company ("FAM") and its president of

Retention by special committee created client-relationship with company

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

An appellate court in Pennsylvania has resurrected a lawsuit by the Trustee of insolvent Le-Nature's, Inc. against the law firm that conducted an

FCPA charges against parent based on overlapping officers with subsidiary

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

Swiss-based Tyco International has agreed to pay more than $26 million to settle DOJ and SEC charges that it and its foreign subsidiaries used "fake"

Ninth Circuit rules that contractors with no formal fiduciary relationship with the government may be liable for honest services fraud

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2012

On April 24, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held in United States v. Milovanovic, No. 08-30381, F. 3d , 2012 WL 1398647 (9th Cir. Apr. 24, 2012) (en banc), that independent contractors who take bribes or kickbacks, but who have no formal fiduciary relationship with the government, nonetheless can be prosecuted for honest services fraud based on a breach of “a comparable duty of loyalty, trust, and confidence.”

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