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Petrofac Resolves Bribery Act Enforcement Action

By on October 5, 2021 in 2021 Enforcement Actions, Iraq, Oil and Gas Industry, Petrofac, Saudi Arabia, Serious Fraud Office, SFO, Unaoil, United Arab Emirates
Petrofac

Petrofac (a U.K. based oil and gas company with ADRs registered with the SEC) has been under scrutiny since 2016 regarding its relationship with Unaoil. (See here for the prior post).

In 2019, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office announced that David Lufkin (the former Global Head of Sales for Petrofac International Ltd.) pleaded guilty to eleven counts of bribery related to “the making of corrupt offers to influence the award of contracts to Petrofac worth in excess of USD $730 million in Iraq and in excess of USD $3.5 billion in Saudi Arabia.” (See here).

Recently, the SFO announced that it has “secured the conviction of Petrofac Limited for seven separate counts of failure to prevent bribery between 2011 and 2017.”

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Checking In On Petrofac

By on June 22, 2021 in Petrofac
Petrofac

Petrofac (a U.K. based oil and gas company with ADRs registered with the SEC) has been under scrutiny since 2016 regarding its relationship with Unaoil. (See here for the prior post).

In 2019, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office announced that David Lufkin (the former Global Head of Sales for Petrofac International Ltd.) pleaded guilty to eleven counts of bribery related to “the making of corrupt offers to influence the award of contracts to Petrofac worth in excess of USD $730 million in Iraq and in excess of USD $3.5 billion in Saudi Arabia.” (See here).

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Friday Roundup

By on February 8, 2019 in David Lufkin, Ericsson, Glencore, Herbalife, Petrofac, Rockwell Collins, Rodrigo Garcia Berkowitz, Serious Fraud Office, SFO, Trafigura, United Technologies, Vitol, World Acceptance Corp
Roundup

Good lord, scrutiny alert and updates, across the pond, and for the reading stack. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Good Lord

Here is how Rep. Jackie Speier (an individual with a law degree) described the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on a recent CNN program – “It is a requirement that anyone doing business with a foreign entity make sure that none of the money that comes into a project has been laundered.”

Good lord, get it right or stop talking about the FCPA.

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Friday Roundup

By on September 8, 2017 in Collateral Effects, Declination Decisions, Enforcement Competition, FCPA Inc., FCPA Statistics, ISO 37001, Petrofac, Rolls-Royce, Serious Fraud Office, U.K. Bribery Act, Undercover Investigations, United Kingdom
Roundup

Across the pond, the big picture, ripple, a muddy mess, to FCPA Inc., scrutiny alert, silly and erroneous, misleading, ISO 37001 related, and for the reading stack.

It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Across the Pond

In this recent speech, David Green (Director of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office) said the U.K. Bribery Act is “regarded as a gold standard internationally” and, as further proof that so-called enforcement competition does exist, he stated:

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Friday Roundup

By on May 12, 2017 in Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Foreign Official, Internal Controls, Offensive Use of FCPA, Petrofac, Russia, Syngenta AG
Roundup

Offensive use of the FCPA, a weekend homework assignment, already answered, scrutiny alert, and for the reading stack. It’s all here in the Friday roundup.

Offense Use of the FCPA

FCPA Ripples highlights, among other things, how the FCPA is increasingly being used offensively including in connection with battles for corporate control.

The latest example concerns Elliott Management Corporation’s efforts to unseat board members at Arconic Inc. The recent departure of Arconic’s CEO Klaus Kleinfeld for apparently threatening Elliott Management (an existing Arconic shareholder) was all over the news (see here for example) and this recent Elliott Management letter to Arconic shareholders assails the “poor judgment” of Arconic’s board including the following.

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