After initial indignation at US prosecutions of non-nationals for fraud and corruption, foreign companies are learning that cooperation can be a safer strategy than contestation when problems are unearthed. The UK’s adversarial legal tradition, and perceived lapses over arms deals, leaves its companies in especially exposed extraterritorial terrain.
UK in the firing line from US extraterritorial prosecutions
Posted by Alan Shipman in Management & Execution, Risk & Regs on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 19:36
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