We have advised and represented companies in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits U.S. public companies and other businesses organized in the U.S. from making payments to foreign officials or political parties in order to obtain or retain business. Today’s global economy creates new challenges for clients who endeavor to compete successfully for business in foreign countries where competitors may not feel constrained by laws proscribing such payments.

These representations include:

• Conducting an internal investigation for a U.S. beverage producer whose invoicing and sales agent practices in Syria raised FCPA compliance issues;
• Responding to DOJ inquiries on behalf of an executive of a U.S. agricultural concern doing business in Haiti;
• Representing insurance companies based in a U.S. Territory in a Department of Justice investigation of financial transactions in Nigeria; and
• Persuading the DOJ to decline prosecution of a publicly-owned industrial manufacturing company alleged to have made secret payments to a foreign state-owned purchaser.