Practical Guidance on How to Conduct FCPA Due Diligence

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have stressed the need for companies to conduct FCPA due diligence before entering into transactions with third parties or buying another company. The DOJ and SEC have levied stiff fines on companies that have not heeded their advice once violations of the FCPA have been discovered. So how should a company go about conducting FCPA due diligence? In an article written at the end of 2011 and published in the State Bar of California’s Business Law News, in issue 1 of 2012, David Saltzman provides practical guidance on how to conduct FCPA due diligence.