Welcome back to the podcast, bribe, swindle or steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogge, and we're kicking off 2024 by listening in on our annual FCPA

Year in Review webinar.

Our guest expert this year is Dan Kahn, former chief of the DOJ's FCPA unit, amongst other positions

there, and Kern partner with Davis Polk in Washington. Here's Dan. This past year has been a much

more active year on the enforcement side in terms of what we've been seeing. And so here is just

an overview of some of the areas that we were

going to hit today. Talk about enforcement trends, the number of issues that we'll hit there,

talk about some of the guidance that came out this past year. I'm sure a lot of you have heard

a lot about that guidance, so we won't cover it in excruciating detail, but we'll hit some of the

key points.

We'll talk about what to watch in 2024.

Certainly, I don't pretend to have a crystal ball and to know what's going to be happening in the year ahead.

But I think based on our experiences, based on what we've been seeing, and based on some of the guidance that's been coming out, I think we have a good sense of what

to expect in the coming year. With that, we can get started and start talking about some of the

enforcement trends. So this is just an overview, but I think one point that's always, I think a notable

point is any time there's a leadership change, unlike a lot of other areas of law and frankly, pretty

much every other area of law, the FCPA is vested in one unit at the Department of Justice.

That's the FCPA unit. There is likewise an FCPA unit at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

There is a new head of DOJ's FCPA unit. That's David for. David has been

in the FCPA unit for a number of years now. I think he joined in 2013. And so he has a lot of

experience doing this. He worked at a law firm doing FCPA cases on the defense side for a number of

...