JANUARY 30, 2020 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2019 Developments and Predictions for 2020 By Kimberly A. Parker, Jay Holtmeier, Erin G.H. Sloane, Lillian Howard Potter, David A. Stoopler, and Alyssa R. Budihas Table of Contents I. 2019 ENFORCEMENT TRENDS AND KEY DEVELOPMENTS ......................................................................... 4 A. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 4 B. 2019 Enforcement Trends and Priorities .................................................................................................. 4 1. Enforcement Metrics ...................................................................................................................... 4 2. Developments in DOJ Policy .......................................................................................................... 5 3. DOJ Has Active Year of Trials ....................................................................................................... 6 4. A New FCPA #1 and #2: Ericsson and Mobile Telesystems .......................................................... 7 5. US Authorities Continue to Target Foreign Companies ................................................................. 8 6. Continued Use of Accounting Charges to Resolve Matters ........................................................... 9 7. Continued Instances of International Cooperation and Continued Touting of International Cooperation—with One Dissent ................................................................................................... 10 8. CFTC Begins Foreign Corruption Enforcement ........................................................................... 12 9. Major Investigations Continue to Generate Individual Enforcement Actions ................................ 13 II. RECENT POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS............................................................................................................ 14 A. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 14 B. Revised FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy ....................................................................................... 14 1. M&A Context ................................................................................................................................ 15 2. Sharing Information on Individuals Substantially Involved in Misconduct .................................... 15 3. Ephemeral Messaging Systems ................................................................................................... 16 4. Clarification on “De-confliction” .................................................................................................... 16 5. November 2019 Updates ............................................................................................................. 16 C. DOJ Updated Guidance on Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs .......................................... 17 D. Additional Comments on Monitorship Memorandum .............................................................................. 18 E. CFTC Enforcement Advisory on Foreign Corrupt Practices and McDonald Remarks ............................ 19 F. Benczkowski Memorandum on Corporate Claims of Inability to Pay ...................................................... 20 G. Clayton Statement Regarding Offers of Settlement ................................................................................ 21 H. SEC Proposed Rules to Require Mandatory Disclosures by Resource Extraction Companies .............. 21 III. KEY INVESTIGATION-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS ...................................................................................... 22 WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP 1 A. Notable Features of Corporate Resolutions ............................................................................................ 22 1. Continued Reliance on Accounting Provisions ............................................................................. 22 2. Self-Disclosure and Cooperation ................................................................................................. 25 3. Continued Use of Monitors........................................................................................................... 28 4. Blockbuster Resolution: Ericsson ................................................................................................. 32 B. Notable Features of Individual Resolutions ............................................................................................ 34 1. A Continued Focus on Prosecution of Individuals ........................................................................ 34 2. Individual Cases in Long-Running Investigations......................................................................... 35 3. Foreign Officials Continue to Face non-FCPA Charges in FCPA Enforcement Actions .............. 37 4. DOJ Pursues Adoption Agency Case .......................................................................................... 39 5. The latter half of 2019 saw an unusually large number of trials ................................................... 39 6. Sentencing ................................................................................................................................... 43 C. Declinations and Case Closures ............................................................................................................. 44 1. 2019 FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy Declinations ............................................................. 45 2. Cases Possibly Closed under the DOJ’s “No Piling On” Policy .................................................... 45 IV. KEY LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS ........................................................................................................................ 47 A. Conspiracy/International Reach of FCPA ............................................................................................... 47 B. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to SEC’s Disgorgement Authority in Liu v. SEC (U.S. 18-1501) ...... 50 C. Collateral Consequences of Cooperation ............................................................................................... 51 D. Ninth Circuit Ruling Limits Sarbanes-Oxley Anti-Retaliation Protections for Employees Reporting Possible FCPA Violations ....................................................................................................................... 52 E. Federal Circuit Courts Decline to Apply the Supreme Court’s McDonnell Decision to the FCPA and Other Anti-Bribery Laws .......................................................................................................................... 53 1. The Second Circuit: US v. Thiam and US v. Ng Lap Seng .......................................................... 54 2. The Ninth Circuit: United States v. Chi ......................................................................................... 55 F. Legislative Developments ....................................................................................................................... 55 1. The Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (H.R. 4140) ....................................................................... 56 2. The Investor Protection and Capital Markets Fairness Act (H.R. 4344) ....................................... 56 3. The Securities Fraud Enforcement and Investor Compensation Act (S. 799) .............................. 56 V. COLLATERAL ACTIONS .................................................................................................................................. 57 A. Restitution Claims ................................................................................................................................... 57 1. United States v. OZ Africa Management LLC .............................................................................. 57 2. Government-as-Victim Cases ...................................................................................................... 58 B. Shareholder Lawsuits ............................................................................................................................. 59 1. Cobalt International Energy Inc. Shareholder Litigation ............................................................... 59 2. Mobile Telesystems PJSC Shareholder Litigation ....................................................................... 60 3. In re General Cable Corp. Securities Litigation ............................................................................ 60 4. Cemex Shareholder Litigation ...................................................................................................... 60 5. OSI Systems Shareholder Litigation ............................................................................................ 61 6. Glencore Investor Lawsuit............................................................................................................ 61 C. Whistleblower Rewards .......................................................................................................................... 61 D. Civil Forfeiture......................................................................................................................................... 62 E. International Arbitration ..........................................................................................................................