On Monday, June 22, 2020, the Supreme Court decided Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission, the latest decision in a long-running challenge to the SEC’s authority to obtain disgorgem...
As the COVID-19 crisis places extraordinary pressure on the supply chain for various essential goods, federal and state authorities have turned their focus to suspected instances of price...
On May 7, 2020, the Supreme Court in Kelly v. United States reversed the convictions of two former New Jersey officials charged with fraud after closing lanes of the George Washington Bri...
On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”)—a sweeping economic relief package that will deliver an u...
On February 26, a long-running legal battle over the scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) took another turn when a federal trial court judge ordered that former Alstom ...
To assist legal and compliance officers of financial institutions, this memorandum summarizes key recent developments in criminal prosecutions and regulatory enforcement actions involving...
On December 30, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the convictions of four individuals charged with disclosing and trading on nonpublic government in...
On September 3, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York unsealed an order ruling that, under certain circumstances, the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act—w...
On August 6, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) published new guidance on the steps companies should take in order to receive cooperation credit in the SFO’s chargi...
Not surprisingly, the many media and political reactions to the PHH Corp. v. CFPB decision have reflected the competing stakeholder interests around every aspect of the CFPB.In this memor...
