Miller & Chevalier and 13 Latin American firms released the results of the 2016 Latin America Corruption Survey. According to this year's results, more than three-quarters of businesspeople indicate that their country’s anti-corruption laws are ineffective, yet there are signs of regionwide improvement in corporate compliance measures. Most respondents (89 percent) believe their company has lost business to law-breaking competitors, but they have not reported such offenses to the authorities. Even though more than half (59 percent) of total survey respondents believe an offender would likely be prosecuted for corruption, of the 11 percent of respondents who reported corruption, less than one-third indicate that local enforcement authorities investigated the report.

The survey is led by James Tillen, Matteson Ellis, and Saskia Zandieh.*

To date, press coverage of the survey has included articles in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal's Risk & Compliance Journal, The Wall Street Journal's Morning Risk Report, The Wall Street Journal's Survey Roundup, Forbes, Global Investigations Review, Compliance Week, Bloomberg View, Daily Business Review, Estadão, Latin Lawyer, Latinvex, FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report, FCPA Professor, International Lawyers Network Today, Business News Americas, FDI Intelligence, Dinero, FCPAmericas, the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association, and RealZima.

*Former Miller & Chevalier attorney