In October, President Trump signed two significant executive orders regarding fairness and transparency in federal agency guidance and enforcement. This visual memorandum provides an over...
The SEC’s Enforcement Division (the “Division”) released its annual report on November 6. The Division filed 7% more standalone cases in 2019 than it did in 2018, and financial sanc...
On Friday, November 1, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission, a case that challenges the SEC’s long-held position that it has authorit...
President Trump has signed two significant executive orders regarding transparency in federal agency guidance and enforcement. This visual memorandum provides an overview of and key take...
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...
Please join us as we review the key developments and trends in FCPA and anti-corruption enforcement through mid-2019. Topics will include:
Trends in U.S. corporate enforcement actions
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In a speech on July 11, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that, for the first time, DOJ will con...
Earlier this month, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton issued a statement announcing a change in the SEC’s waiver application process that will streamline the SEC settlement process. The Commissi...
Today, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Somers v. Digital Realty Trust Inc., No. 15-17352 (9th Cir. Mar. 8, 2017), deciding that Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-retaliation provision “sho...
