Compliance Week: Biden corruption strategy puts FCPA in spotlight overseas

Recently speaking with Compliance  Week, FRA Partner Trevor Wiles shares his thoughts on Joe Biden's strategy on countering corruption, which looks at tackling corporate abuses overseas.

Trevor said he believed the move to increase resources for U.S. law enforcement will mean greater capability to commence more investigations and go after more difficult targets, like overseas corporates. "Biden might start with companies with U.S. interests but then move toward companies that transact with the former - for example, a distributor to a U.S. listed company that does not have U.S. business but is connected to bribery allegations", Trevor noted.

Read the full piece published in Compliance Week here.