Portions of the U.K. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 went into effect just after Christmas 2023. Who are the senior manager that the Act affects and how worried should they be? These are the questions Francis Kean, Partner in Financial Lines Team at McGill and Partners, asks in the following guest
Failure to prevent fraud
Guest Post: The New U.K. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023
By Kevin LaCroix on
Posted in Director and Officer Liability
In the following guest post, the authors examine two specific provisions of the new U.K. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. The two provisions the authors examine are the Act’s new corporate offense of “failure to prevent fraud” and the reformed “identification principle.” The authors of this guest post…