This book is about the ‘regulation’ of corporations that use bribery in international business transactions to win or maintain business contracts and business interests in overseas jurisdictions (shortened to transnational corporate bribery throughout this book). Such bribery involves at least two willing or consenting actors who may either actively offer, promise to give or give, or passively request, agree to receive or accept, bribes and inducements. (The bribe receiver may of course be more ‘active’ in demanding bribes but such distinctions are made in law.) The direction of these bribes is from corporations to foreign public officials in the context of a corporation’s overseas business. (Of course, ‘private to private’ bribery (that is, commercial bribery) also occurs, but the focus of this book is on ‘private to public’ bribery.) These bribes take myriad forms, from cash payments (potentially of £billions) through to indirect hospitalities (including shopping trips, tickets for sports events and so on) to non-monetary favours such as the provision of prostitutes or employment for self or social network. There is intent behind such bribes and this is usually to ensure the commission or omission of certain acts that breach the duties of public officials for organisational gains (that is, for the benefit of the corporate entity). These include the awarding or continuance of multi-million pound contracts for the corporation, though inevitably individual gains usually also accompany this.