U.S. DoJ issues its first-ever Dept-wide Corporate Enforcement policy, standardising how prosecutors handle corporate criminal cases and incentivising self-reporting, cooperation and remediation

The policy applies across all DOJ components and most criminal matters, replacing fragmented approaches with a single framework designed to promote consistency, transparency and predictability in corporate enforcement decisions. It establishes clear incentives for companies, including the possibility of declinations or reduced penalties where firms voluntarily disclose misconduct, fully cooperate with investigations and remediate wrongdoing, while reinforcing accountability for individual offenders…