Louise Delahunty
Cooley LLP
Articles
Failure to Prevent Criminal Facilitation of Tax Evasion
United Kingdom - April 27 2017 The new UK “failure to prevent criminal facilitation of tax evasion” domestic and overseas offences will almost certainly become effective in or…
Tesco announces Deferred Prosecution Agreement
United Kingdom, USA - April 6 2017 It was announced last week that Tesco PLC’s subsidiary, Tesco Stores Ltd, has finalised the terms of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the…
UK/European crime-fighting coordination post Brexit “a priority”
European Union, United Kingdom - March 20 2017 As anticipated in our blog last June, the impact of Brexit on how the UK’s crime-fighting agencies will interact with their European counterparts is…
A new UK corporate criminal offence: failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
United Kingdom - July 21 2016 The UK’s tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has just closed its consultation on a new corporate criminal offence: failure to take…
UK’s Serious Fraud Office secures second deferred prosecution agreement - this time with the UK Subsidiary of US Corporate
United Kingdom, USA - July 15 2016 Lord Justice Leveson has approved the Serious Fraud Office’s (“SFO’s”) second application for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”). The Agreement…
