With the U.K. Serious Fraud Office finally able to offer companies U.S.-style deferred-prosecution agreements, lawyers expect the agency to start enforcing the country’s tough Bribery Act 2010 with much greater zeal.
It’s almost four years since Britain passed one of the world’s toughest anti-bribery and corruption laws, but its main enforcement body, the SFO, has struggled to bring any cases of note. The agency has neither the funds nor the staff it needs to enforce the Bribery Act effectively.
