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Employment Flash - March 2024

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/25/2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

Anticorruption Enforcement and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Trends to Track in 2024

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &... on 3/21/2024

This is the seventh in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Whistleblower Day 2023: The (R)evolution of Speaking Up

StoneTurn on 7/28/2023

On July 30, 1778, the Second Continental Congress passed the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1778, which is considered to be the first whistleblower law in world history. Much has changed in two and a half centuries, but very...more

Major competition law changes – greater powers for the Czech NCA, clearer rules for fining associations, anonymous reporting of...

White & Case LLP on 7/14/2023

Very soon, a long-awaited amendment to the Czech Act on the Protection of Competition will become law, implementing (after a long delay) the requirements of what is known as the ECN+ Directive (an EU directive designed to...more

EU Whistleblower Directive: Addressing Differences in Country Transposition

NAVEX on 4/19/2022

As we enter the second quarter of 2022, more EU countries are implementing their national transpositions of the EU Whistleblower Directive. Progress is happening, slowly but surely! And perhaps this gradual implementation...more

A New Age of Accountability: Global Whistleblowing on the Rise

NAVEX on 4/2/2021

In 2021, whistleblowers will come into their own in ways previously unseen. While the United States has had whistleblower protections for two decades, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region are setting new standards in...more

Blowing the whistle on inadequate protections: How does the new EU Whistleblower Directive improve on existing legislation?

White & Case LLP on 11/27/2019

'Whistleblower' is a widely used term. However, what it means and the protections a whistleblower might receive are by no means universal. Whistleblowers have been a regular presence in the news over recent years, from...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/5/2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Parliament's report on whether and how the use of blockchain technology can comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as...more

Individuals as Whistleblowers

Hogan Lovells on 5/10/2019

Cartels are by their nature hard to uncover and regulators rely – to a large part – on appealing to companies’ wallets. Immunity and leniency policies, by which regulators offer to whistleblowing companies full immunity or...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/20/2018

The Journal’s weekend report on Facebook’s role in the unauthorized use of data from 50 million users wreaked havoc on the ‘Book’s stock yesterday, with losses spreading across the tech sector (and fellow its FANGers in...more

EU Competition Newsletter - April 2017

BCLP on 4/13/2017

The Brexit referendum result in June last year created many uncertainties for the British economy and continues to do so. In this Breakfast Seminar, Robert Bell will focus his remarks on what he sees will be the likely...more

Employment Law - January 2016 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 1/28/2016

EU Permits Employers to Monitor Private Employee Communications - Why it matters - In a favorable ruling for employers, the European Union's (EU) highest court concluded that an employee's right to privacy was not...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/7/2015

SEC Proposes to Amend Rules Governing Its Administrative Proceedings - On September 24, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed to amend rules governing its administrative proceedings. Key...more

Recent Investment Management Developments - June 2015

Ballard Spahr LLP on 6/19/2015

In This Issue: - SEC Proposes Changes to Reporting and Disclosure Obligations for Investment Companies and Advisers - SEC Charges Hedge Fund Executives and External Auditor for Improper Disclosure of Expense...more

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume IX, Issue 47

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 12/8/2014

In this issue: - SEC Sets October 2015 Target Date for Certain Dodd-Frank and JOBS Act Rulemaking - FINRA Issues Notice on TRACE Trade Reporting Obligations - NFA Issues Guidance on Exempt and Excluded...more

Think High Stakes Whistleblowing is Just a U.S. Phenomenon? Think Again.

NAVEX on 9/22/2014

Today the SEC announced that it will pay $30 million to a whistleblower in the largest award ever doled out by the agency. This news is monumental and will send shock waves around the financial world—along with gut...more

UK Government Announces Changes to Bribery Regime

Morgan Lewis on 10/17/2013

Recent strategy paper sets out a new institutional structure for investigating bribery and proposes a reporting mechanism carrying financial incentives for whistleblowers. On 7 October, as part of its strategy document...more

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