The Legal Tightrope: Surviving Parallel Investigations
Navigating Government Contracts: Diana Shaw on Oversight and Whistleblower Protections
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 45 - The Grit, Grace and Gift of Second Chances
The Justice Insiders Podcast - The Ever-Expanding Net: Corporate Compliance in an Era of Increasing Trade Sanctions and Restrictions
False Claims Act Insights - Are All Healthcare “Kickbacks” Subject to FCA Liability?
Episode 333 -- The Boeing Proposed Plea Agreement
DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
FCPA Survival Guide - Step 8 - Investing in Compliance
Exploring the AI and Crypto Intersection
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Jarkesy’s Implications for the Administrative State
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 41 - The Dynamics of Decision-Making: Psychology and the Criminal Justice System
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
The Justice Insiders Podcast - AI-Washing: Everything Old Is New Again
The CFPB and State AGs Act Jointly Against Online Educational Company
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
FCPA Survival Guide: Step 3 - Extensive Remediation
Episode 324 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
With the close of FINRA’s fiscal year comes the opportunity for broker-dealer firms to consider where regulators have focused their enforcement efforts and also what can be expected in the coming year. Fortunately, FINRA has...more
In a series of settlements announced this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) penalized several broker-dealers for allegedly failing to file...more
The Morgan Lewis Year in Review highlights key US Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) enforcement and examination developments, and cases...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission revised its rule related to the responsibilities of chief compliance officers of futures commission merchants, swap dealers and major swap participants, as well as the obligations of...more
On August 20, 2018, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) announced that it fined a FINRA-regulated broker-dealer $5.5 million over allegations that it violated Regulation SHO under the Securities Exchange Act...more
SEC Not Feeling Groovy About Cryptocurrencies – Tells Registered Investment Funds: Slow Down, You Move Too Fast: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management issued a letter to two industry...more
In a rare reversal of its own administrative law judge in the Matter of optionsXpress, the full Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously held that the SEC’s Enforcement Division had not met its burden of proof that the...more
Non-US Broker Fined by CFTC for Soliciting Futures Orders and Handling Funds for Two US Customers Without Registration or an Exemption: Otkritie Capital International, Ltd., a UK-based broker, agreed to settle charges with...more
The Commission resolved actions with SAC Capital founder Steven Cohen and the former Chairman of Dewey & Leboeuf in addition to filing settled actions against Goldman Sachs and State Street. The agency also filed another...more
Regulatory Developments - SEC Proposes Amendments to Regulation ATS to Shine a Light on Dark Pools: On Nov. 18 the SEC announced that it had issued Release No. 34-76474 proposing amendments to Regulation ATS,...more
A second insider trading action was brought by the Commission against a senior banking official based on the same take-over for which he was previously charged — but a different securities trading account is at the center of...more
Welcome to the 2015 Mid-Year Report from the BakerHostetler Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Practice Team. The purpose is to provide a periodic survey, apart from our team Executive Alerts, on matters we...more