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on September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a landmark bill (SB 826) requiring boards of directors of California-based public reporting corporations to have a minimum number of female directors.

The ACI FCPA Conference wrapped up yesterday with a "town hall" session featuring three leading enforcement officials: Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement;

On Day 1, the ACI FPCA Conference heard from the current chiefs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...

A day after DOJ and SEC officials rejected the notion that there has a been a precipitous decline in enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, DOJ and SEC announced a $460 million total settlement with...

On April 6, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the NYSE's waiver of certain of its shareholder approval requirements for securities issuances through and including June 30, 2020...

On August 25, 2023, the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance issued five Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations relating to the new Rule 10b5-1 requirements, summarized below...

On January 15, 2025, the SEC approved, on an accelerated basis, a proposed rule change to amend Section 802.01C of the NYSE's Listed Company Manual (Manual) to restrict the use of reverse stock splits...

The staff of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has issued the responses described below to frequently asked questions relating to the initial Section...

After the recent filing of summary judgment motions, a federal judge may be closer to deciding for the first time whether certain cryptocurrencies are securities and subject to regulation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Make sure your client and educational institutions are speaking the same language. Exactly a century ago, Congress ushered a seismic investment in higher education through the transformation of U.S. philanthropy: ...

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to speak to the chairman of the board of Ericsson. I complimented him on the gender diversity achieved on his board of directors; ..

On May 2, 2024, the Boston Bar Association convened its fifth annual White-Collar Crime Conference.

You'll recall that the academic literature suggests that all things being equal, the party which gets more questions is likely to lose the case.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reorganized the storied Tax Division last year, shrinking it from 90 lawyers down to 60 and moving the criminal tax prosecutors into the Criminal Division.

The 39th ACI FCPA Conference wrapped up yesterday with a town hall-style session featuring Charles Cain (head of the SEC's FCPA Unit), Lorinda Laryea (Acting Principal Deputy...

Nine months ago, Congress gave the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Treasury (Treasury) substantial new power to subpoena foreign-located bank records in any investigation under federal criminal law.

The final day of the ABA White Collar Crime Conference featured some forceful remarks from Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite in which he highlighted DOJ's global assumed role as a "community problem solver."

"Government enforcement is increasing across the globe." Since the return to in-person work, we've seen governments around the world increase their resources and focus on fraud enforcement. Is your company protected?