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Special purpose acquisition companies ( SPACs ), it seems, are everywhere. SPACs have been around for decades
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Between 2019 and 2020, there was a 536% increase in the amount of capital raised by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
The Corporate Transparency Act (the Act ) was enacted by Congress on January 1, 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, overriding then-President Trump s earlier veto.
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In Stream TV Networks, Inc. v. SeeCubic, Inc., C.A. No. 2020-0310-JTL (Del. Ch. Dec. 8, 2020), the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the Court ) ruled that all RELATED CONTENT
James Koukios spoke to
Global Investigations Review
about the U.S. Department of Justice s (DOJ) corporate
enforcement policy (CEP), an initiative through which the DOJ
promises to publicly decline to prosecute a company if it
self-reports potential wrongdoing, fully cooperates, and remediates
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, and why the number of
companies receiving such a deal has slowed recently.
According to James, companies might shy away from hoping to
secure a declination under the policy out of concern that the
action will be public, and essentially brand them as having paid
bribes. Prior to the policy, there was the possibility that
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ G. Zachary Terwilliger, who most recently served as the Senate-confirmed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in the firm s Government Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense practice.
Based in V&E s Washington, D.C. office, Terwilliger brings to the firm robust professional experience from several high-level government positions, culminating in his bi-partisan nomination, including not only consent, but the support of Virginia s two Democratic senators, and unanimous confirmation as U.S. Attorney in 2018.
As U.S. Attorney for the past 2.5 years, Terwilliger supervised the prosecution of federal crimes, as well as the litigation of civil matters, and led a staff of just over 300 criminal prosecutors, civil litigators and support personnel across four offices. He oversaw many important corporate resolutions, including an $8
Recovering from a relatively slow start to the year, due in no small part to the global pandemic, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Units of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) closed the year with a bang. With 32 combined FCPA enforcement actions, 51 total cases including ancillary enforcement, and a record-setting $2.78 billion in corporate fines and penalties (plus billions more collected by foreign regulators), 2020 marks another robust year in the annals of FCPA enforcement.
This client update provides an overview of the FCPA and other domestic and international anti-corruption enforcement, litigation, and policy developments from 2020, as well as the trends we see from this activity. We at Gibson Dunn are privileged to help our clients navigate these challenges daily and are honored again to have been ranked Number 1 in the