Sentences with phrase «corrupt practice act»

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We were involved in four of the 10 largest DOJ Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA), UK Bribery Act and anticorruption investigations, including as monitor of one of the largest FCPA matters in recent history.

Represented a Fortune 500 executive facing allegations of Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) violations.

27 percent of law firm lawyers who participated tested it on internal investigations, 18 percent on Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, nine percent on multi-district litigation.

Additionally, the UK's ability to prosecute the foreign official who took the bribe sets the UK's legislation apart from the United States» foreign bribery law, the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA).

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders» money for such purposes; and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts.

Puri was speaking as part of a panel titled: «Foreign corrupt practices acts and the adequacy of whistle - blowing protections» held last Friday at Osgoode, part of a two - day event called Understanding and Taming Public and Private Corruption in the 21st Century.

Not exact matches

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Section 123 (3) of the Representation of the People Act, defines a corrupt electoral practice as follows:

The Registrar of the court in which a compulsory treatment order or any order under section 24 or 34 of the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003 is made or in which any person is convicted of a corrupt practice must, not later than the fifth day of the month following the date of the order or conviction, forward to the Electoral Commission a certificate showing --

«Tackling corrupt acts and greed require a reorientation of our attitudes and perceptions to corrupt practices.

The Acting chairman of the Independent corrupt practices and other related offenses commission (ICPC) Bako Abdullahi, has described corruption as an epidemic frustrating Nigerian democracy,...

Buhari had recently directed Malami to probe the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu; and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, over allegations of corrupt practices.

Although such acts of indignity garner ornate headlines and self - righteous accusations about the lack of moral character, to which there is truth, given the inescapable unintended consequences of high stakes schemes, such corrupt behaviors and distortions of a given professional practice are inevitable and of no surprise.

It's been thirty years since the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and now it's finally bearing fruit as a thriving niche practice area for law firms, according to the Washington Post.

Ms. Schuller's practice focuses on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and criminal antitrust matters.

Bittman, whose practice focuses on issues surrounding multinational corporations, particularly the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and False Claims Act cases, also has substantial federal prosecutorial experience.

The practice also regularly handles matters in federal and state courts throughout the United States, and has defended clients against allegations of health - care fraud, insider trading, securities, accounting and government contracts fraud; violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; criminal environmental violations; criminal antitrust violations; and money laundering.

Following the discovery of certain corrupt practices in Quebec's construction industry, the province's government introduced the Integrity in Public Contracts Act in 2012.

Kudos abounds around Gibson — it tops the Chambers USA charts for heaps of litigious and transactional practices, including antitrust, appellate, regulation, FCPA [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act], M&A, IT and outsourcing.

Her practice includes advising and defending corporations in a variety of criminal and civil investigation and enforcement matters, conducting complex, worldwide internal investigations in relation to bribery, corruption and fraud, advising on and developing and benchmarking compliance programmes, conducting pre-merger and third - party due diligence, and providing day - to - day counselling and training on compliance with US, UK and other anti-corruption laws, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act 2010.

He assists clients in navigating international legal issues, and a substantial portion of his practice is focused on compliance with anti-corruption laws and export controls, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and other relevant laws and regulations.

Mr. Shen's practice focuses on US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations, compliance, commercial litigation and international arbitration matters.

Any contravention of section 41 is a corrupt practice, and an action alleging the contravention may be commenced within the time provided in the Limitations Act, 2002 in the same manner and the procedure shall be the same as in the case of other actions under sections 99 to 111 (Contested Elections) of the Election Act.

Washington, DC, Government Investigations & White Collar Defense associate Emily Harlan and Boston partner and deputy leader of the Government Investigations & White Collar Defense practice Danielle Pelot coauthored this article focusing on what companies doing business in foreign countries need to know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's facilitating payments exception.

Ashley's practice focuses on government and internal investigations, including matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the False Claims Act (FCA), and the U.K. Bribery Act.

89 The Chief Electoral Officer, in addition to any other requirements of this Act in respect of the tabling of the results of an election, shall report to the Assembly through the Speaker whether or not in the Chief Electoral Officer's opinion the conduct of the election was free or otherwise of any of the actions which are declared to be offences or corrupt practices under this Act.

Rich's practice entails conducting internal investigations with a focus on potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

(3) If the presiding judge finds that the act constituting a corrupt practice was committed without any intent of causing or contributing to a false outcome of the election, clause (1)(b) does not apply.