Worldwide: White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & Fraud

On June 10, 2025, the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a putative securities fraud class action alleging that defendants[1] violated Section 12...

In United States v. Chastain, a split panel of the Second Circuit recently vacated the convictions of a former executive of an NFT marketplace who had been charged with misusing confidential information...

In a published decision issued July 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court's reversal of a bankruptcy court ruling that had deemed a state court judgment nondischargeable under the Bankruptcy Code's embezzlement exception...

Partner Lloyd Firth argues that Recommendation 44 from the Leveson Review—which mandates judge-only trials for serious and complex fraud—undermines defendants' rights and fails to provide meaningful relief to the Crown Court backlog...

On July 31, 2025, the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Commercial Litigation Branch (Fraud Section) announced new settlement agreements with government contractors to resolve their respective False Claims Act (FCA) liabilities arising out of cyber fraud allegations

In June 2025, the Department of Justice announced the largest coordinated healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history.

The evolving U.S.-Mexico geopolitical relationship is now fundamentally burdened by the growing regulatory, enforcement, and real risks tied to cartel activity, drug trafficking and the fentanyl trade, immigration, and a rapidly changing tariff environment. Financial institutions and companies on both sides of the border are now having to address more complicated compliance risk management as U.S. authorities wield new authorities and target Mexican financial institutions.

I have commented often on the type of monetary damages that are recoverable in the context of a claim for fraud in a civil (as opposed to criminal) action.

On July 11, 2025, in United States v. Schena,[1] the Ninth Circuit adopted an expansive interpretation of the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA)...