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26Jan

DOJ Announces Concrete Company’s Deferred Prosecution Agreement: Are Effective Antitrust Compliance Programs Really Less Important Now? Unlikely.

In early January 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“the DOJ”) Antitrust Division (“the Division”) announced a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”) with Argos USA LLC (“Argos” or “the Company”).1 While DPAs have been used to resolve prosecutions in other Divisions of the DOJ, the Antitrust Division has considered DPAs only since a policy shift in 2019......
By: Vinson & Elkins LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/doj-announces-concrete-company-s-4598471/

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