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Responding to Comprehensive Financial Fraud Enforcement Efforts

When the President of the United States highlights an enforcement initiative in the State of the Union Address, as he did on January 24, 2012, it likely is a strong indication of things to come. And action was swift....more

Securities Litigation Report - Volume 8, Issue 4 - April 2011

In this issue: The Vivendi Ruling: Revisiting Three Key Issues (and Adding Two More); Delaware Chancery Court Update: Recent Decisions Shed New Light on Stapled Financing Offered by Financial Advisors, Duties of Directors...more

Kerviel and the Société Générale trading case: some thoughts about governance, risk, compliance … and the banking world

6 October 2010 –Former Société Générale trader Jérome Kerviel was found guilty of breach of trust, computer abuse and forgery by a Paris court on Tuesday for his role in a trading scandal that cost the bank close to €5bn...more

The Société Générale/Jérôme Kerviel trial: issues of e-discovery and forensics plus governance, risk and compliance [UPDATED]

Reported by: Darius Champion, special correspondent to Project Counsel and Gregory P. Bufithis, founder and chairman of Project Counsel 23 June 2010 — We have had the good fortune these last two weeks to be following the...more