Baker Botts: DOJ’s New Safe Harbor Policy for M&A: A Win-Win for Acquirors and Compliance?

On October 4, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new policy to encourage voluntary self-disclosure of criminal misconduct by companies in the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The new policy continues, and extends to the M&A context, DOJ's practice over the last several years of publishing formal criteria to incentivize companies to self-disclose to DOJ misconduct by employees or others. Read the Baker Botts client update here.