February 16, 2015
Washington, D.C. partners F. Joseph Warin, Michael Diamant and associate Melissa Farrar are authors of "2014 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements and Deferred Prosecution Agreements" [PDF] which was published February 16, 2015 in Bloomberg BNA’s Securities Regulation & Law Report. The article focuses on two developments in the NPA and DPA arena in 2014: 1) DOJ took the rare step of extending three NPA and DPA agreements that were set to expire for terms of up to three years to support on-going investigations; and 2) many in the judiciary have taken note of DPAs in recent years and—in part because of their finality in lieu of trial—begun subjecting DPA terms to substantially increased scrutiny.