Daily Compliance News: September 26, 2024 – The Legal Limbo Edition
The Hill Country Podcast: Exploring Kerrville’s Literary Community with Rachael Carruthers
Compliance into the Weeds: Argentieri Speech and Updated ECCP – The First Analysis
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lesson from The John Deere FCPA Enforcement Action – Pre – acquisition Due Diligence
Daily Compliance News: September 25, 2024 – The $11bn Forfeiture Edition
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Makes it a Securities Offering?
Shout Outs and Rants – Episode 141
Daily Compliance News: September 24, 2024 – The Revised ECCP Released Edition
The Ethics Experts: Episode 183 – Julie Winkle Giulioni
The Legal Tightrope: Surviving Parallel Investigations
Corruption Crime and Compliance: Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
FCPA Compliance Report: Jon May Critiques The DOJ Whistleblower Financial Incentive Program
Compliance Tip of the Day: Everything Old is New Again: The John Deere FCPA Enforcement Action
Daily Compliance News: September 23, 2024 – The That Old Time Religion Edition
Episode 337 -- Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
Sunday Book Review: September 21, 2024, Books on Venice Edition
Megatrax Trailblazers Podcast: Episode 41 - Tom Fox (Voice of Compliance Podcast Network)
Creativity and Compliance: Transforming Toxic Cultures
Navigating Government Contracts: Diana Shaw on Oversight and Whistleblower Protections
Compliance Tip of the Day: How A CEO Can Set The Tone at The Top with Town Halls
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted amendments to the reporting requirements of Forms N-PORT and N-CEN and issued guidance related to registered open-end funds’ liquidity risk management programs...more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present the 2024 Mid-Year Technology and Life Sciences PIPE and RDO Report, analyzing 124 private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and registered direct offerings (RDOs) by...more
On April 4, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court held in In re Match Group Inc., Derivative Litigation that the entire fairness standard of review applies to all controlling stockholder transactions in which a controller receives...more
On September 9, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced settled charges against seven public companies for violation of the whistleblower protection rule in connection with employment, separation,...more
This episode is a rare opportunity for #teamgwic to catch up in person at one of the key Ethics & Compliance events, the SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI). CEI was in Grapevine, Texas, and, as usual, was a great...more
Welcome to Pawtastic Friends-The Paw Talk. In this podcast, host Tom Fox will visit with Michael and Melissa Novelli, co-founders of Pawtastic Friends, as well as those who work with them at Pawtastic Friends. Michael and...more
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance as we celebrate our second century of shows. In this episode, we take up a potpourri of topics. We have the quartet of Matt Kelly Jonathan Armstrong, Jonathan Marks, and...more
The Compliance Podcast Network (CPN) and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) bring you Business Integrity Innovations. This podcast is inspired by Ethics 1st – a multi-stakeholder initiative led by CIPE...more
Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen to the Daily Compliance News. All...more
Earlier this year, the technology working group of HM Treasury outlined the initial stages of a strategic road map for the development of a fund tokenization industry in the U.K., with a final phase to be confirmed by the end...more
Licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, a small business investment company (SBIC) represents a privately owned and operated investment fund that makes...more
On July 12, 2024, Treasury and the IRS published proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) that would identify certain basket contract transactions as well as transactions substantially similar thereto as “listed...more
A broker-dealer (the “Dealer”) entered into a cease-and-desist order with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to maintain and enforce written policies and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance...more
If you have not recently reviewed your company’s documents to ensure they comply with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whistleblower protection rules, you should put it at the top of your to-do list. On September 9,...more
In April, the NYSE proposed a rule change that would have amended Section 102.06 of the Listed Company Manual to allow a SPAC to “remain listed until forty-two months from its original listing date if it has entered into a...more
Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next...more
On September 9, 2024, the Chief Accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Munter, delivered remarks describing circumstances in which, in the SEC staff’s view, entities may engage in cryptoasset...more
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on September 12 issued final changes to Rule 4.7 that were limited to an increase in the “Portfolio Requirement” threshold contained in the definition of “qualified eligible person”...more
On September 16, FINRA accepted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC) from a member firm, settling alleged rule violations made during its participation as a placement agent in a contingency offering....more
The SEC announced settled charges against Zymergen Inc. in connection with its IPO based on misleading statements about its market potential, revenue prospects and customer pipeline. After raising $530 million in the 2021...more
On September 9, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settlements with seven public companies for using employment, separation, and other agreements that violated rules prohibiting actions to impede...more
Earlier this month, the SEC brought accounting fraud charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the CEO, CFO, and Audit Committee Chair of Kubient, a company that purported to use AI...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect on January 1, 2024, and will impact millions of U.S. businesses by imposing requirements to file corporate transparency reports with beneficial ownership information...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (the “DOL”) amendment to the qualified professional asset manager (“QPAM”) prohibited transaction class exemption 84-14 (the “Exemption”) went into effect on June 17, 2024. Current QPAMs must...more
Each month, we publish a roundup of the most important SEC enforcement developments for busy in-house lawyers and compliance professionals. This month, we examine: •The SEC’s case against crypto firm Kraken is permitted to...more
