DOJ Announces Concrete Company's Deferred Prosecution Agreement: Are Effective Antitrust Compliance Programs Really Less Important Now? Unlikely. | Vinson & Elkins LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In early January 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“the DOJ”) Antitrust Division (“the Division”) announced a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”) with Argos USA LLC (“Argos” or “the Company”). 1 While DPAs have been used to resolve prosecutions in other Divisions of the DOJ, the Antitrust Division has considered DPAs only since a policy shift in 2019. Under the new policy, DPAs were to be applied in limited situations where a company committed an antitrust crime despite having an effective compliance p...