Clifford Chance

Anti-Bribery and Corruption Review - June 2017

1 June 2017

The spotlight on anti-bribery and corruption compliance programmes continues to intensify as a number of countries adopt measures designed to make it easier to prosecute companies. Most significantly, France’s Sapin II law requires companies subject to the provisions to adopt effective anti-corruption procedures, and has created a new agency to monitor compliance with these new requirements, while Australia is consulting on proposals for a new corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery.

Elsewhere, there has been a number of new developments in relation to deferred prosecution agreements and whistleblowing, and some significant new enforcement actions. The bar on anti-corruption compliance continues to be raised, and it is important for international companies to continue to review what they have to do to address the risks to their business, and to their reputation, and for them to keep up-to-date with ABC developments in the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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