GIR February 2018

In this edition of GIR, we look to the year ahead from somewhat esoteric privilege disputes in Europe, to heavy-handed corruption crackdowns in the Middle East.

In this issue: 

• On the Horizon: Investigations in 2018
  • International cooperation: for better or worse?
  • Argentina introduces corporate criminal liability
  • Australia to toughen up its enforcement powers
  • Rising bribery risk in China
  • Tough new data protection regulations kick in
  • German court to rule on Jones Day privilege dispute
  • ENRC appeal ruling to create new litigation privilege definition
  • French authorities search for the next DPA
  • David Green and the future of the SFO
  • What’s next for Brexit?
  • Legislation post-Panama Papers: who’s running the show?
  • The rise of the whistleblower
  • Operation Car Wash shifts gear
  • Which political heads will roll?
  • Growing enforcement in the Middle East
• The treatment of criminal profits in French CJIPs
• Bias in monitorship selections has become a ‘self-perpetuating myth’
• Draft American law puts banks on collision course with Europe’s GDPR
• Recent NPAs set ‘troubling precedent’
• SEC saves Morgan Lewis lawyers from privilege grilling
• Singapore considers adopting a senior managers regime
• Swiss Supreme Court reins in tax authority’s international data sharing