Interested in learning more about the FCPA, FCPA enforcement, and other anti-corruption laws and initiatives?
The following links take you to sites devoted to the FCPA or related topics hosted by enforcement agencies, law firms and others. These sites contain, among other things, original source documents, enforcement action data and analysis, and additional news and views on the FCPA and related topics.
Enforcement Agencies
Contains the FCPA (in fifteen languages); the DOJ’s view of the FCPA; portions of the FCPA’s legislative history; original source documents from DOJ FCPA enforcement actions; FCPA opinion procedure regulations and releases; and links to other international anti-bribery agreements.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Contains information on SEC FCPA enforcement actions, including links to original source documents.
The United Kingdom SFO is the functional equilavent of the DOJ. The site describes the SFO’s bribery and corruption enforcement program, including as to the Bribery Act (2010), and contains information on enforcement actions including original source documents. See here, here and here for U.K. Ministry of Justice sites concerning the Bribery Act and its implementation.
Law Firms
Run by Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP, the site provides insights and observations on the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws.
Run by McGuireWoods LLP, the site provides commentary on the UK Bribery Act and its impact on international business
Run by Barry Vitou (Pinsent Masons LLP) and Richard Kovalevsky Q.C (2 Bedford Row), the site is devoted to the UK Bribery Act and related UK Anti-Bribery and Corruption law.
Corruption, Crime & Compliance
Run by Michael Volkov (Mayer Brown LLP), the site contains analysis of FCPA and related topics.
Run by Matt Ellis (Matteson Ellis Law, PLLC), the site focuses on FCPA and related issues in Latin America.
Run by Richard Cassin (Cassin Law LLC), the site contains news and views about the FCPA.
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog
Run by Thomas Fox, the site focuses on FCPA compliance from a business, risk-management perspective.
Run by Shearman & Sterling LLP, the site is a one-stop FCPA resource and contains comprehensive original source documents and summaries of FCPA enforcement materials.
Other
Business Anti-Corruption Portal
Run by the Global Advice Network on behalf of government ministries and agencies from Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Portal seeks to provide a comprehensive and practical business tool, and to offer targeted support to small and medium sized enterprises in order to help them avoid and fight corruption
Run by the Wall Street Journal, the site provides news on bribery and related topics.
Ethisphere Anti-Corruption Resource Center
Run by the Ethisphere Institute, an international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, the site provides analysis and commentary on the FCPA and related issues.
FCPA – Travel Act Decision Tree
Created by T. Markus Funk (Perkins Coie), the decision tree provides in-house counsel and others in the anti-corruption field with a handy, practical analytical tool for the standard range of foreign (and domestic) bribery issues.
Created by The Mintz Group, the interactive map allowing users to learn of FCPA violations in specific countries, as well as industry specific FCPA data.
A word cloud is a graphical representation of word frequency in a source text and can be a fun and informative learning device. The above link has word clouds for the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions and the FCPA’s books and records and internal control provisions.
Global Anti-Corruption Task Force
Run by the Criminal Justice Section of the ABA, the site provides up-to-date, practitioner-oriented information and analysis on global anti-corruption matters and the opportunity to publish peer-reviewed articles.
Run by online news agency Main Justice, the site provides news and analysis for legal professionals about the FCPA and international anti-corruption enforcement.
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
The OECD is an international organization of member countries active on a number of topics including bribery and corruption. The site contains the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention; enforcement data, statistics, and reports; and specific country information.
Trace International is a non-profit membership association that provides FCPA and related compliance resources. The Trace Compendium (here) is a compilation of summaries of DOJ and SEC FCPA enforcement actions and enforcement actions from certain other jurisdictions. The Trace Blog (here) covers FCPA and related developments.
Run by Transparency International, a global anti-corruption organization, the site contains various anti-corruption tools, data, and research; and various surveys and indices including the corruption perceptions index.
This site contains various anti-corruption tools and data; various regional and country approaches to anti-corruption; and a list of World Bank debarred firms.