Emphasis on protecting US business, economic and national security interests In brief During a May 12 speech and in a newly issued Criminal Division White-Collar Enforcement Plan (the “Plan”), the Head of the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Criminal Division, Matthew R. Galeotti, set out the Department’s priorities for corporate criminal enforcement under the new Administration and issued a number of updated policy documents. These changes affect the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure…
Bipartisan legislation advancing in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives known as the “BIOSECURE Act” (“the Act”) has the potential to significantly restrict the ability of biotechnology companies to collaborate with certain Chinese companies without losing the ability to contract with the U.S. government. Following the same model that was used to target Chinese telecommunications companies in the late 2010s, the Act would prohibit federal “executive agencies” from contracting with or extending…