Tom Fox explores the recent bid by a Chinese state-controlled investment fund to purchase the Liverpool Football Club and how it will be impacted by the U.K. Bribery Act.
Tom Fox
Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in compliance through his best-selling book Upping Your Game. He has 38 other books on the use of AI in compliance and business ethics, leadership including the seminal work, The Compliance Handbook, with its 7th edition coming out in 2025. He is the founder of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.
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Posted inAnti-Bribery
Do the FCPA rules make sense?
How many rules are too many? How complicated are the rules to follow? These are questions Tom Fox explores in the context of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Fortunately, the answer, he says, is quite simple—do not pay bribes.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Will VW impact international settlements for bribery and corruption?
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox explores the fallout from VW’s emissions-testing scandal and how the company will make restitution going forward to its customers, dealers, and other stakeholders.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Tone at the top really does matter
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox looks at the case of disgraced pharmaceutical company Valeant and what new Chief Financial Officer Paul Herendeen has planned for the company’s future.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Target and Walmart show that supply chain risk is everywhere
The bigger the company, the bigger the supply chain risk. Just ask Target and Walmart, which recently had to confront this issue head-on over fake Egyptian cotton bedsheets. More from Tom Fox.
Posted inFrom the Archive
In the FCPA World, your relationships matter
Do you know the character of those you are in business with from an anti-corruption perspective? Tom Fox looks at the Och-Ziff corruption scandal and what happens if you bring corrupt third parties into a relationship with your company.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Potential VW criminal resolution—an early test for Yates Memo?
A look at potential VW criminal resolutions brings up several questions, says Tom Fox, around type of resolution; individual liability; and more. Will this test the DoJ’s Yates Memo?
Posted inEthics & Culture
An employee suicide and corporate culture
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox examines the recent suicide of an executive with Abbot Laboratories in India and what happens when the numbers are more important than employees’ well-being.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
SFO Airbus investigation indicates new normal in financing and compliance
The Serious Fraud Office investigation into Airbus emphasizes the importance of compliance program best practices for borrowers in obtaining funding and loan guarantees, especially in light of the latest trend: government oversight. Tom Fox reports.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
The FCPA as an economic tool
The FCPA is rarely considered as an economoic tool. But as a means of fighting corruption, however, it also helps to improve market efficiency.
