The debate on whether the use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) has become lively again over the past couple of weeks. Last week, there was a panel hosted ...

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One of the oft-made criticisms regarding the Department of Justice (DOJ) around its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is its the use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and ...

Deferred Prosecution Agreements with the Department of Justice (DPAs) have been a powerful tool of federal white-collar criminal enforcement for a number of years. At the same time, DPAs have been ...

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While deferred prosecution agreements remain a staple of the government's enforcement arsenal, sophisticated players no longer necessarily assume that a DPA is preferable to a plea agreement. In June ...

DeCastro, president and CEO of Wildflower International in Santa Fe, N.M., submitted the bid for the order but lost based solely on her company's inability to meet the delivery requirements. The deal ...

This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. It was just over a decade ago that a strange new beast entered the UK’s legal scene.

The terms of the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) entered into by Rolls-Royce with the Serious Fraud Office on 17 January included payment of a record financial penalty of more than £500m in ...