Home Design

“Loren did an amazing and professional job on our remodeled home by staging it. We were impressed with her communication style and her delivering on time, but also her flexibility. The house looked so different with furniture and her final touch ups and design talents! I would highly recommend her for any of your staging…

The Biden Administration announced a new, comprehensive anti-corruption initiative, the United States Strategy on Countering Corruption. The new anti-corruption initiative is the follow on to the earlier announcement elevating the global anti-corruption battle to a national security concern. After that announcement, the Biden Administration conducted a 200-day inter-agency examination to develop a comprehensive government-wide anti-corruption initiative.…

No one needs to be reminded about the importance of anti-corruption compliance.  For global companies, anti-corruption risks are amongst the top 3 risks identified by corporate leaders. Global companies face a growing network of international anti-corruption law enforcement agents and prosecutors who are coordinating and sharing intelligence.  The globalization of anti-corruption enforcement has increased significantly…

In an interesting decision, well worth a read here, on August 9, 2019, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected Ng Lap Seng’s appeal of his 2017 conviction for bribery of united Nationals officials.  In affirming the conviction, the Second Circuit ruled that the Supreme Court’s holding in McDonnell (see blog post…

In an interesting SEC FCPA settlement action, Sridhar Thiruvengadam, the former COO of Cognizant Technology, agreed to pay a $50K penalty for his role in the bribery scheme involving the payment of $2 million to a government official in India in exchange for the issuance of a planning permit needed for the construction of Cognizant’s…