Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act

by Thomas Fox, Mike Koehler (Foreword), Michele Rudland (Editor)

Over the past few years I have tried to provide the compliance practitioner with solid information that can be used to implement, review and enhance a US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) or UK Bribery Act based compliance program. I am often asked to collect my blog posting regarding what are the current best practices for an anti-corruption/anti-bribery compliance program. In other words, what are the specifics of a compliance program. This volume is an attempt to provide the compliance practitioner with information that can be used for the ‘nuts and bolts’ of compliance.

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Thomas Fox has practiced law in Houston for 25 years. He is now assisting companies with FCPA compliance, Risk Management and international transactions. He was most recently the General Counsel at Drilling Controls, Inc., a worldwide oilfield manufacturing and service company. He was previously Division Counsel with Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. where he supported Halliburton’s software division and its downhole division, which included the logging, directional drilling and drill bit business units.

Tom attended undergraduate school at the University of Texas, graduate school at Michigan State University and law school at the University of Michigan.

Tom writes and speaks nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics, ranging from FCPA compliance, indemnities and other forms of risk management for a worldwide energy practice, tax issues faced by multi-national US companies, insurance coverage issues and protection of trade secrets.

Reviews

[Doug Cornelius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tom Fox is prolific writer on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He publishes the excellent FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog . One of the downsides to a blog is that it's a running commentary and not a narrative guide. Blogs are great for sharing ideas among practitioners. But a blog does not come together as a nuts and bolts tool.

Tom took action and organized some of his best posts into Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act . Now you can pull a comprehensive collection off your shelf to help you create and manage a world class compliance program for bribery and corruption.

The book is a "best of" collection, but organized topically, making it a great resource for the FCPA practitioner.

I was not an unbiased reader of the book. I've spoken with Tom many times and spent some time with him at the Compliance Week conference in 2010. Tom kindly mentioned me in the acknowledgements and sent me a copy of the book.

My only demerit on the book is that there is little new material that did not appear on his blog.