An advisory service is calling on company shareholders to blacklist a number of large audit firms because they are not doing enough to identify and tackle corporate fraud.

When you draft employment arbitration agreements, it's not enough to know what the law is.

As board members weigh their priorities for 2018, they would do well to consider a famous quote attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower: "What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important."

On February 20, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by the trustee of the Millennium Lender Claim Trust challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit's August 2023 decision.

In late September 2016, Andrew Ceresney, Director of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), signaled the SEC's renewed focus on the key role played by audit committee members...

Historically, private equity houses have taken little interest in the mining sector, with few transactions of note in an industry that has been perceived as inappropriate for financial purchasers.

Justice Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently released a decision in Zaniewicz v Zungui Haixi Corporation approving a class action settlement, but which varied the proposed plan of distribution based on a class member’s objections.

In February 2005 database giant ChoicePoint revealed that 145,000 consumers across the United States were placed at risk by a recent data theft at the company. The data thieves created accounts for nonexistent debt collectors, insurance agencies and other companies, which gave them access to personal information stored on the ChoicePoint databases.

A company settled with the SEC and the North American Securities Administrators Association ("NASAA") for failing to register the offers and sales of its retail crypto lending product.

Russia, a natural resource giant and an untapped source of many business opportunities, has the potential to become the world’s next investment tiger.

ABC Limited (the Company), which commenced operations in 2001, is a 100% holding company for four different companies operating in the healthcare sector.

The legal actions which debtors can take against the customs duty and penalty decisions taken in their name have been regulated in articles 242 and 244 of the Customs Law no. 4458.

Employers can breathe a sigh of relief after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals once again upheld the validity of class and collective action waivers in arbitration agreements.

Most compliance professionals in the UK financial services industry will be focused on the increasing regulatory scrutiny that originates from the UK, including Peter Freeman's recent widely reported speech in which he examined the issues connected with a (as yet hypothetical) competition investigation of the UK banking sector.

Whilst the Government has been singing the praises of workers in the NHS, particularly those working in hospitals, one sector of health professionals that have been working throughout the pandemic has hardly received a mention.

Ernst and Young have released their annual Global Fraud Survey results which follows the questioning of over 2,700 board members, executives, managers and teams.

In a highly anticipated decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court's decision in Kirschner v. JP Morgan Chase Bank that the syndicated loan...