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1 Prepared for distribution at THE FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT AND INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS 2016 Program New York City, May 2 3, 2016 Live Webcast, and Groupcast Locations, May 2 3, 2016 CONTENTS: PROGRAM SCHEDULE FACULTY BIOS Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2015; Developments and Predictions for 2016 (February 2, 2016) Roger M. Witten Jay Holtmeier Erin G.H. Sloane Lillian Howard Potter Justin Goodyear 2. Gibson Dunn Publication: 2015 Year-End FCPA Update (January 4, 2016) Richard W. Grime Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP 3. Steptoe & Johnson LLP: 2015 FCPA Year in Review (March 8, 2016) Lucinda A. Low Steptoe & Johnson LLP 4. Cracking the FCPA Code: Interpreting Recent DOJ and SEC Enforcement and Messaging (November 2015) Laurence A. Urgenson Matthew J. Alexander Colleen Snow Mayer Brown LLP 5

2 5. FCPA: A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, The Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (November 14, 2012) Compliance Lessons from ICBC Standard Bank U.K. and U.S. Bribery Settlements Thomas J. Koffer Credit Suisse Group AG 7. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Agrees to Pay $14.8 Million to Settle SEC Corruption Charges Arising Out of Internships for Family Members of Sovereign Wealth Fund Officials (August 18, 2015) Karen Patton Seymour Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 8. Best Practices in Ethics and Compliance Programs (PowerPoint slides) Laura K. Kennedy SAIC 9. The Anti-Corruption Risk Assessment: A Compliance No-Brainer Greta Lichtenbaum O'Melveny & Myers LLP 10. Hidden Dangers in the Early Stages of an Internal Investigation Joan E. Meyer Maria McMahon Baker & McKenzie LLP Richard N. Dean Baker & McKenzie LLP 6

3 11. Chapter 6, China, Law Business Research Ltd., The International Investigations Review, 5th edition, Nicolas Bourtin, ed. (July 2015) Melody Wang Fangda Partners 12. Chapter 10: Compliance Programs, Practising Law Institute, Doing Business Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 2nd Edition (November 2015) U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Memorandum for the Assistant Attorney General, Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing, from Sally Quillian Yates, Deputy Attorney General (September 9, 2015) Richard W. Grime Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP 14. Andrew Ceresney, ACI s 32nd FCPA Conference Keynote Address (November 17, 2015) Shearman & Sterling LLP FCPA Digest: Cases and Review Releases Relating to Bribes to Foreign Officials under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (January 2016) Claudius O. Sokenu Shearman & Sterling LLP 16. Shearman & Sterling LLP Securities Enforcement: 2015 Year-End Review Claudius O. Sokenu Shearman & Sterling LLP 7

4 17. Voluntary Disclosures 2016 (PowerPoint slides) William B. Jacobson Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 18. Investigation Log Template and Sample Document Hold Memo Patricia M. Byrne BAE Systems, Inc. 19. Break Glass Now: Basic First Steps for In-House Counsel Considering an Internal Investigation Jason A. Jones King & Spalding LLP 20. Winning the Anti-Corruption War: Go After the Bribe Takers Richard S. Levick, Esq. LEVICK 21. New Data: Bribery Is Often An Unspoken Rule in China (January 21, 2015) Richard S. Levick, Esq. LEVICK 22. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: The Role of Forensic Accountants Sulaksh R. Shah PwC 23. Ethical Issues in FCPA Investigations (February 2016) James J. Benjamin, Jr. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 24. Hypothetical: Ethical Issues in Anti-Corruption Matters Karen A. Popp Sidley Austin LLP 8

5 25. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Client Alert: U.S. Department of Justice Official Urges Companies to Provide Evidence Against Their Employees to Obtain Cooperation Credit (October 2014) William J. Stuckwisch Kirkland & Ellis LLP 26. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Client Alert: DOJ Issues New Guidance on Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing (September 2015) William J. Stuckwisch Kirkland & Ellis LLP 27. FCPA Update: Indian Anti-Corruption Laws at the Cross-Roads (April 2015) FCPA Update: The SEC Announces First FCPA Enforcement Action Based on Allegedly Improper Hiring of Relatives of Foreign Officials (April 2015) FCPA Update: The United Kingdom s First Deferred Prosecution Agreement (December 2015)

6 30. FCPA Update: SEC Brings First FCPA Enforcement Actions of 2016 (February 2016) INDEX Program Attorney: Dana M. Berman 10

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