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The FCA Imposes £72 Million Financial Penalty on Barclays for Financial Crime Failings

United Kingdom - December 22 2015 On November 25, 2015, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) issued a Final Notice imposing a financial penalty on Barclays Bank plc (“Barclays”)…

Alex Parker

The United Kingdom’s First Deferred Prosecution Agreement

United Kingdom - December 22 2015 In November 2015, anti-bribery enforcement and regulation in the United Kingdom entered a new era with the first UK Deferred Prosecution Agreement…

Matthew Howard Getz, Alex Parker

Property Alliance Group Ltd v. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc

United Kingdom - December 22 2015 In a potentially helpful judgment for investigations lawyers, the High Court in London has recently confirmed, in Property Alliance Group Ltd v…

Alex Parker

First UK DPA starts to answer questions about Bribery Act enforcement

United Kingdom - December 1 2015 On 30 November 2015, Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, approved the UK’s first Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”)…

Matthew Howard Getz, Lord Goldsmith KC, Robin Lööf, Ramsay McCulloch

UK “corporate offence” – Scottish company enters first settlement expressly relating to section 7 of the Bribery Act

United Kingdom - October 29 2015 On 25 September 2015, the Civil Recovery Unit of the Scottish Crown Office, Scotland's prosecutor, announced a civil settlement with Brand‑Rex…

Matthew Howard Getz, Robin Lööf