Just in time for the season of giving, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have doled out a much-anticipated gift of their own: a resource guide to the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act.
By essentially unifying into a single document what previously existed as a piecemeal collection of informal opinions and case law, the 120-page guide represents the most comprehensive analysis produced in the law’s 35-year history on how the government enforces the FCPA and how it interprets some of its more clouded components.
