The FCPA Flash podcast provides in an audio format the same fresh, candid, and informed commentary about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related topics as readers have come to expect from written posts on FCPA Professor.
This FCPA Flash episode is a conversation with Michael Goldberg (Baker Botts). Goldberg represented Cobalt International Energy in connection with several instances of FCPA scrutiny and as highlighted in this recent post his client refused to settle. During the podcast, Goldberg discusses his client’s FCPA scrutiny, the reasons for his client’s refusal to settle, the negative effects Cobalt experienced despite prevailing, and how the world of investigations is broken and who shares the blame.
General counsel, audit committee members, and board of directors in particular should listen to the podcast. Just because the SEC thinks your company has violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it isn’t necessarily so and you don’t have to roll over and write a check. To state the obvious, unless a company caves, the SEC actually has to prove an FCPA violation and history has demonstrated that when forced to do, the SEC often fails.
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