Red Flag re Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Nachfolgend kurzer aber wichtiger Hinweis zur Beachtung bei US-Firmenkäufen (Auszug aus einem englischen Newsletter, Verfasser dieser “Red Flag” ist Nietzer & Häusler) :

In times of increasingly harsh measures taken by the U.S.Department of Justice or the SEC (see the recent settlement re Daimler AG – the complaint can be retrieved at the US-blog www.usa-recht.de; see April 9th entry), against violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), it is a must in a purchaser’s pre-acquisition due diligence that questions get asked such as “Does the target have an FCPA policy, and can it produce evidence of that policy being enforced, with FCPA training?” or “How rob…