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 ...

Late last week, 10 of Germany’s 17 Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) announced they are planning to send written questionnaires to approximately 500 different companies regarding international data ...

As an independent privacy professional I work with insurance, healthcare and financial companies in the EU, UK and US. My clients process huge amount of sensitive data. What I have noticed, and what I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chart Courtesy of Gibson Dunn. Last year saw federal prosecutors' use of deferred and nonprosecution agreements with companies drop to their lowest level since 2009, according to a new report from ...

Deferred-prosecution agreements (DPAs) pose thorny questions from an overcriminalization perspective. But DPA skeptics should welcome—at least for now—a decision issued last Tuesday by the U.S. Court ...

LinkedIn’s projections are being tempered by broader industry research high. The use of deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) doesn’t stop corporate fraud, and may be actively encouraging it, ...

The Canadian division of the anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) has recommended that Canada join a global movement toward adopting deferred prosecution agreements for dealing with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir, What message does a deferred prosecution agreement send to business people, and even worse, to young ...

The use of deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) doesn’t stop corporate fraud, and may be actively encouraging it, according to new paper by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). DPAs are ...