10A investigation - PwC
Anti-Bribery/Corruption Services
PwC recognises that a growing number of companies listed on stock exchanges around the world are facing regulatory investigations, civil and criminal legal prosecution and shareholder class-action lawsuits as a result of corporate misconduct and regulatory compliance failures.
Briefing Series
Trends indicate increased enforcement and relevance of anticorruption due diligence in M&A.
A risk based approach is required, with the timing, nature and extent of the due diligence dependent on the circumstances of each M&A
Stay Clean
Today, many companies operating across global markets are struggling to keep pace with recent regulatory developments in the area of anti-corruption. Recent high-profile corruption scandals bear some lessons for boards in terms of the prevention of (and effective response to) regulatory investigations. Fundamentally, boards need to know how to respond to issues that trigger a regulatory inquiry…
Corruption Crackdown
An aggressive international push to fight corruption has moved well beyond well-intentioned rhetoric and toward hard results. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and enforcement actions have spiked in the last several years while investigation backlogs pile up and criminal prosecutions lead to executives serving prison sentences...
Corporate Accountability
This year’s Corporate Accountability conference held in both London and Amsterdam could hardly have been more timely and relevant: a conference of its time and for its time. Regulation and governance – a subject that was rarely given excessive attention by news editors – is now headline news around the world: from the controversies and debate...
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Hot topics
A review of concluded bribery/corruption proceedings from 2008 and 2009 reveals that, in almost all instances, third party intermediaries (e.g., agents, customs brokers, distributors, subcontractors, freight forwarding agents, etc.) were used to make improper payments. |
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