[T]the authors and editors of From Baksheesh to Bribery have put together a volume that accomplishes two main tasks. Firstly, it initiates a discussion of the various approaches to anticorruption legislation and enforcement at the domestic level. Second, it provides practical guidance for practitioners who seek to ensure compliance within their company, investigate charges of bribery and corruption, or defend their company from such charges, particularly in the US. In this way, the book adds to the global literature on anti-corruption particularly in relation to compliance and enforcement. Its practical and easy-to-digest guidance makes it an ideal desk resource for practitioners in the anticorruption field. While it will indeed be interesting to see how anticorruption enforcement evolves over the next years, through this contribution, the authors and editors give us a solid glimpse into where we are now.
T. Markus Funk is the Firmwide Chair of Perkins Coie's White Collar & Investigations Practice.
Andrew S. Boutros is the National Co-Chair of the White Collar, Internal Investigations, and False Claims Team at Seyfarth Shaw LLP.