How Energy Companies Can Manage Heightened Anti-Corruption Risk, Anti-Corruption Report

Anti-Corruption Report quoted remarks made by partner John Pease during a recent firm webinar about how energy companies can navigate anti-bribery laws around the globe.

John said US companies should keep the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act in mind, as it allows the US Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges against foreign officials who make demands for bribes of US companies and citizens.

“It is the first time that the U.S. is criminalizing the demand side of a bri[b]e by a foreign official,” John said. “It is going to be very interesting to see, going forward, how this statute is used by the US authorities in these cases.”

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