Join a webcast with an experienced panel of anti-corruption compliance practitioners that will cover the key trends shaping anti-corruption enforcement and provide practical views on how companies can update their anti-corruption compliance programs to meet the many challenges facing business today.  In particular, the webcast will

1. summarize global anti-corruption enforcement trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and other key countries;
2. recap the latest FCPA trials and their implications;
3. address today’s best practices for establishing and refreshing an effective anti-corruption compliance program; and
4. look at the importance of risk-based third-party due diligence.

The panel’s collective knowledge, gained from advising clients daily on the legal and business challenges posed in this area, will benefit directors, senior executives, in-house counsel, and compliance personnel alike.

Presenters:

• F. Joseph Warin serves as chair of the Litigation Department for Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and as co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations group.  A recognized expert in the FCPA and U.K. Bribery Act, Mr. Warin has served or is serving as FCPA compliance monitor (or counsel to the first non-U.S. FCPA compliance monitor) for three companies.
• Benno Schwarz is a member of Gibson Dunn’s White Collar Defense and Investigations and International Corporate Transactions groups.  Based in Gibson Dunn’s Munich office, Mr. Schwarz is an expert in global anti-corruption compliance having conducted corruption-related internal investigations throughout the EU, Russia, and China.
• Michael Diamant is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and practices in its White Collar Defense and Investigations group.  Mr. Diamant is an expert on the FCPA, the UK Bribery Act, and corporate compliance issues.
• Joseph Spinelli is a Managing Director in Navigant’s Global Investigations and Compliance segment and is a leading authority on white-collar crime matters with more than 30 years of forensic investigations experience, including as a special agent in the FBI and a principle in a Big Four accounting firm.

To attend this free webcast scheduled for Wednesday, February 29, at 12 pm Eastern, please sign up below.

“If private individuals can seek civil remedies, why does the SFC have to wait?” Benjamin Yu, a lawyer representing the Securities and Futures Commission, told Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal today. The regulator is trying to overturn a court ruling that it lacks the power to unwind Tiger Asia’s transactions in the market and ban the hedge fund and employees from trading in Hong Kong before proving insider trading allegations in a tribunal or criminal court.

via Hong Kong Regulator Says It Should Be Able to Redress Investors – Businessweek.

Americans and the British are said to be two peoples divided by a common language, and three recent enforcement cases involving financial groups that operate on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that the subtle, and sometimes surprising, differences extend to the way US and UK regulators and law enforcement seek to police their markets.

via UK looks to bridge regulatory divide with US –Financial Times

Securities class action filings in Canada reached their highest level to date in 2011 with 15 new filings, according to NERA Economic Consulting’s annual report, Trends In Canadian Securities Class Actions: 2011 Update. The previous high was 12 filings in 2008.

via Filings of Securities Class Actions in Canada Reach New High -NERA press release

David Einhorn and his hedge fund, Greenlight Capital, were fined $11 million by Britain’s financial regulator on Wednesday after he was accused of using inside information when trading the shares of a British pub chain.

via British Regulator Fines Einhorn in Insider Trading Case – NYTimes.com.

On January 17, 2012, in a development with important implications for the evolution of post-Morrison remedies for non-U.S. investors, a Dutch court has held for the first time that a collective securities settlement is legally binding. Of even greater significance, the decision arose in a circumstance where none of the liable parties and few of the claimants were domiciled in the Netherlands. The court’s action suggests the possibility of a potentially important mechanism for aggrieved investors who bought shares outside the U.S. to obtain compensation.

via Dutch Court Holds Collective Securities Settlement to Be Binding : The D&O Diary

Prosecutors arrested a senior official at the trade ministry Thursday over insider trading in a 2009 state-led bailout for chip-maker Elpida Memory Inc. Masaaki Kimura, 53, is suspected of repeatedly buying shares in Elpida Memory under his wife’s name from February to May 2009.

via METI bigwig nabbed in insider trading via wife’s name | The Japan Times Online.

The Financial Services Authority said Joseph, 42, was released on conditional bail after a hearing in London today. He is scheduled to appear at a higher criminal court in March to face the eight counts of insider trading and two counts of money laundering, the regulator said in a statement.

Joseph, who is not approved by the FSA to hold a regulated position in Britain’s finance industry, faces as long as seven years in jail for insider trading, plus a fine if he’s found guilty.

via U.K. Regulator Charges Man With 8 Counts of Insider Trading – Bloomberg.

Sebi has fined three top officials of Jaiprakash Associates , including executive chairman Manoj Gaur, and their relatives and associates for involvement in insider trading in 2008.

Jaypee executives fined for insider trading – The Times of India.

American shareholders are suing Britains Lloyds Banking Group and the banks former executives, saying they were misled over its rescue of fellow lender HBOS in the depths of the financial crisis in 2008.

via U.S. investors sue Lloyds chiefs over HBOS deal — Reuters.