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Avery Dennison Corporation settles SEC action for improper payments to government officials

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On July 28, 2009, the SEC filed a civil action and an administrative order against Avery Dennison Corporation ("Avery"), a manufacturer of self-adhesive materials, office products and labels incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in California

SEC settles with Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc., and two of its officers

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On July 31, 2009, the SEC filed a settled enforcement proceeding against Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (“NSP”), a publicly held manufacturer of nutritional and personal care products, its Chief Executive Officer, Douglas Faggioli and its former Chief Financial Officer, Craig D. Huff

Control Components Inc. pleads guilty to FCPA and other charges

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On July 31, 2009, Control Components Inc. (“CCI”), a California-based control valve manufacturer for the nuclear, oil and gas, and power generation industries, pleaded guilty to a three-count criminal information charging it with conspiring to violate the FCPA and the Travel Act and substantive violations of the FCPA

Helmerich & Payne agrees to pay almost $1.4 million to resolve bribery allegations

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On July 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne ("H&P"), an international drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry that is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Oklahoma, entered into a two-year non-prosecution agreement with the Department in connection with approximately $185,673 in improper payments it made to Argentine and Venezuelan customs officials

Department of Justice issues first FCPA opinion procedure release for 2009

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On August 3, 2009, the Department issued its first FCPA Opinion Procedure Release (the "Opinion") of the year

FCPA: 2007 in review

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 7 2008

Discussing some of the most important civil and criminal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prosecutions of 2007, this update offers a review of the trends set by the settled cases and decision law of last year

The Roth case and export controls: the government sends a message to the academic research industry

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 19 2009

A 72-year-old professor is awaiting sentencing later this month after being convicted of illegal transmitting military technical data without a license from the Department of State to foreign students in the United States

OFAC sanctions come calling on the insurance industry

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 17 2008

Diplomatic attempts to halt uranium enrichment in Iran are sputtering

Economic sanctions or export controls and foreign companies: what to do when the U.S. Congress comes knocking

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2009

When a foreign company seeks to enter the U.S. market, is already doing business in the United States, or employs U.S. persons, it needs to consider how U.S. economic sanctions may impact the business

Increased penalties for export controls and sanctions program

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2008

Late last year, the penalties for export violations increased substantially