2021 Insights: Biden Administration Priorities | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
The Biden administration has signaled its intention to bolster enforcement of corporate crime. Corporations should expect DOJ policies and priorities that emphasize individual culpability and incentivize robust corporate compliance to remain unchanged, while policies that suggest a more business-friendly approach to corporate prosecutions are likely to be amended or abandoned. Under the Biden administration, corporations can expect the DOJ and congressional investigations to place greater focus on the private sector. Democrats in the 117th Congress likely will focus on issues including the re...