Welcome back to the podcast, Bride, Swindle, or Steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogge, and today we're going to listen in on our FCPA Year in Review.

This will cover 2021, and I'm going to turn it over to my colleague, Sunny McCall,

to introduce our excellent speaker, Cheryl Scarborough.

My name is Sunny McCall, Senior Director Compliance Training and Accreditation at Trace in your host for today's session.

I am pleased to introduce our speaker, Cheryl J. Scarborough, a partner with Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett, LLP.

By way of background, Cheryl formally held the role of associate director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement and was the first chief of the SEC's FCPA unit.

In her current role, Cheryl represents corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in SEC and other regulatory enforcement proceedings,

conducting internal investigations,

and counseling clients on FCPA compliance programs, SEC reporting, disclosure, and corporate

governance requirements. Cheryl has received numerous recognitions, including status as a leading

individual in FCPA by Chambers USA nationwide and Chambers Global. Also, one of the 25 most influential women

in securities law and one of the top 10 women in litigation, just to name a few. For today's session,

Cheryl will provide an overview of key bribery and corruption enforcement activity in 2021,

as well as lessons learned from the year's most notable FCPA activity.

Offering insights into what's driving bribery and corruption enforcement globally,

Cheryl will also address what we might expect to see in terms of future international

bribery enforcement trends.

So with that, I'd like to thank Cheryl once again for her time today and turn it over to her.

Thank you so much for the introduction. I'm happy to

be here. The purpose of today is to talk about FCPA in 2021. It's a pretty unusual year to

discuss for a number of reasons, primarily, because there really haven't been that many cases.

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