Considering the DOJ’s New Corporate Enforcement & Voluntary Self Disclosure Policy (CEP)

On March 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a new Department-wide Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (“Policy”), which is the first corporate enforcement policy applicable to all components of the Department responsible for criminal enforcement, except for parts of the Antitrust Division. The Policy is intended to “promot[e] uniformity, predictability and fairness” in how DOJ pursues white-collar criminal cases.

Ben Haley (leader of Covington’s White Collar and Anti-Corruption Practice in Africa and the Middle East), Kristin Mace (the former Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and a partner in Covington’s New York Office), and Noam Kutler (Of Counsel in Covington’s Washington DC office, who specializes in representing foreign companies in high-stakes U.S. government investigations) will co-host a webinar on the new DOJ Policy with the Middle East and Africa Compliance Association (“MEACA”). Among the topics covered will be:

• How the new Corporate Enforcement Policy fits into the Administration's broader approach to corporate criminal enforcement
• What's genuinely new in the Policy versus repackaged from prior DOJ guidance
• A practical framework for weighing voluntary disclosure decisions under the new Policy
• What DOJ now expects from companies during a corporate criminal investigation and where the bar has moved
• Whether faster, narrower investigations are a blessing or a new source of risk for companies under scrutiny

The presentation part of the webinar will be followed by a Q&A.

This event is co-hosted by Covington and MEACA.

Introduction by Stephan Lutz, Board Member of MEACA.

Log-in details will be provided upon registration.

This event is closed to the press and to professionals from other law firms.