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, scholarship, and additional news and views on the FCPA and related topics.

In addition, FCPA Professor is complimented by this YouTube channel that provides video content regarding the FCPA and related topics.  For additional multimedia content, see here.


Enforcement Agencies

Department of Justice

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 including a topical index and summaries; and links to other international anti-bribery agreements.  See here for the FCPA guidance issued by the DOJ and SEC in November 2012.

Securities and Exchange Commission

Contains information on SEC FCPA enforcement actions, including links to original source documents.

Serious Fraud Office

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.

Congressional Activity

Senate Hearing (Nov. 2010) “Examining Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act”

  •      See here for the hearing transcript, here for video coverage.

House Hearing (June 2011) “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act”

  •      See here for the hearing transcript, here for video coverage.

For additional information on FCPA or related congressional activity, see posts under this tag.

Law Firms

Anticorruption Blog

Run by Squire Sanders & Dempsey, the site provides insights and observations on the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws.

Bribery Library

Run by McGuireWoods, the site provides commentary on the UK Bribery Act and its impact on international business

Corruption, Crime & Compliance

Run by Michael Volkov, the site contains analysis of FCPA and related topics.

Debevoise & Plimpton

An extensive collection of periodic FCPA updates, publications and analysis.

Deming Blog

Run by Stewart Deming, the site contains information regarding the FCPA and related topics.

FCPAmericas Blog

Run by Matt Ellis (Matteson Ellis Law), the site focuses on FCPA and related issues in Latin America.

FCPA Blog

Run by Richard Cassin and others, 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.

FCPA.Shearman.com

Run by Shearman & Sterling, the site is a one-stop FCPA resource and contains comprehensive original source documents and summaries of FCPA enforcement materials.

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

An extensive collection of periodic FCPA updates, publications and analysis.

Miller & Chevalier

An extensive collection of periodic FCPA reviews, publications and analysis.

Sidley Austin

An extensive collection of periodic FCPA reviews, publications and analysis.

TheBriberyAct.com

Run by Barry Vitou (Pinsent Masons) 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.

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

Corruption Currents

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.

ethiXbase

Run by Ethics 360 Media, the fee-based subscription site describes itself as “the world’s largest database of global anti-corruption legislation, regulations, and enforcement actions.”

FCPAlert

Run by Kroll Advisory Solutions, the site is an online resource for proprietary data, industry benchmarks and expert insights on bribery risk and compliance.

FCPA Scholarship

In the upper-right hand corner, search for “FCPA” to find approximatley 100 FCPA and related articles published in law reviews, journals and other professional publications and posted on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).  For additional FCPA scholarship, see posts under this tag.

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.

FCPA Map

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.

FCPA Word Clouds

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.

Federal Organizational Prosecution Agreements

Maintained by University of Virginia School of Law Professor Brandon Garrett and Jon Ashley, the site contains federal organizational prosecution agreements, including non-prosecution and deferred prosecution agreements (NPAs, DPAs), used to resolve FCPA and other enforcement actions.  For additional statistics and information on NPAs and DPAs, see here from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.

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.

Just Anti-Corruption

Run by online news agency Main Justice, the fee-based subscription 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

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.

Transparency International

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 (here).

World Bank

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.