The first six months of 2018 saw U.S. enforcement of foreign bribery cases maintain a slow and uneven pace, with nine corporate and four individual cases brought, according to recent reports from Shearman & Sterling and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

The pace was a far cry from the 53 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for all of 2016, but more similar to last year’s pace.