The Wal-Mart Bribery Scandal on CorpCounsel.com

Corporate Counsel

04-30-2012

On Sunday, April 22, The New York Times published a lengthy investigative report, "Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle." The story outlined a multi-million-dollar web of alleged bribes paid by the Mexican subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., aimed at expediting the expansion of the company's stores in the country.

The report involved—and implicated—numerous in-house lawyers at Wal-Mart, and brought to light a host of issues regarding corporate compliance and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. CorpCounsel.com's reporters and columnists looked at the Wal-Mart bribery stories from an number of angles, analyzing the in-house players and corporate lessons from what is on track to be the story of the year for in-house counsel.

Below is a collection of CorpCounsel's reporting on the Wal-Mart story:

• Rocking, Voting, and More at the Wal-Mart Annual Meeting
• Angry Wal-Mart Investors Weighing In at Shareholder Meeting
• South of the Border Blues
• Corporate Counsel Spotlight: The Wal-Mart Bribery Scandal
• Wal-Mart's Four 'Most Worrisome' Governance Issues
• Wal-Mart Scandal Highlights Gray Areas in Whistleblower Laws
• For Corporate Compliance, the Real Work Begins Before the Headlines
• The Wal-Mart GC Who Resigned During the Mexico Bribery Scandal
• In the Wal-Mart C-Suite, it's the PR Battle That Matters
• An In-House Counsel Corporate Corruption Playbook
• The Mexican Side of the Wal-Mart Bribery Scandal
• What Did Wal-Mart's GC Know About Bribery in Mexico?
• Will Wal-Mart Regret Not Disclosing Its Bribery Investigation Sooner?
• The Day After, Everyone's Talking About Wal-Mart

Our reporters will be keeping tabs on this story as it develops, and we'll continue to post new articles on CorpCounsel.com.