Corporate fines in the US, UK and Europe are on an upward trajectory. In the UK, US-style deferred prosecution agreements have been introduced and new corporate sentencing guidelines for economic crime, health and safety, corporate manslaughter and environmental offences have led to a significant jump in corporate fines.
In the face of these challenges, new Legal Week research, in association with Pinsent Masons, has found that almost three in four senior in-house lawyers expect their business’s compliance spend to rise during the next five years.
