Sunday Book Review: November 3, 2024 – The Books on Risk Edition
Because That’s What Heroes Do: Deep Space 9 – Episode 16: Favor the Bold: End of The Beginning
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending November 2, 2024
Supply Chain Labor Risk
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 40 — The Celebration of Corporate Compliance Week Edition
Career Can Do: Unlocking Gen Z’s Potential at Work with Linda Perry
Fox on Podcasting: Mastering Business Podcasting at The Podcasting for Business Conference
12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership – Evolving Supply Chain Risks and Strategic Adjustments Post – COVID with James Gellert
Daily Compliance News: November 1, 2024 – The Day of The Dead Edition
The Corruption Files: How One Person Brought Down Barings Bank
Daily Compliance News: October 31, 2024 – The Happy Halloween Edition
Navigating Complexities in Tax Equity Transactions - Energy Law Insights
Compliance Tip of the Day: Managing New Risks – Lessons from The Creature from The Black Lagoon
Compliance into the Weeds: Leadership Lessons from The Washington Post’s Non-Endorsement
Great Women in Compliance: Mary Inman and Jane Norberg on Current Developments in Whistleblower Laws and Practice
Daily Compliance News: October 30, 2024 – The Power of Podcasting Edition
Daily Compliance News: October 29, 2024 – The Olympus Chief Fired Edition
Riskology by Infortal: Episode 35 – Riskology in London with BABL AI
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: How to Conduct an Internal Compliance Site Visit and Review
Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance Lessons from Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein
In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current...more
Get ready for an exciting new season of Because That’s What Heroes Do. In this season, they take a deep dive into their favorite 15 episodes of Deep Space 9. In this exploration, Tom and Megan are joined by Star Trek maven...more
Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast which brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you, the compliance professional, the compliance stories you need to...more
Challenges to Race-based Initiatives Continue: Fearless Fund Settles Yearlong Suit with the American Alliance for Equal Rights, Ending the Strivers Grant Contest for Women of Color Business Owners - Fearless Fund is a venture...more
Elections and government changes bring new policies that impact businesses’ strategic planning, while economic stress influences M&A trends and growth strategies....more
Empowering Your Employees Creates a Win-Win - Imagine a workplace where employees feel secure enough to voice their ideas, share their concerns, and engage openly without the fear of negative repercussions — sounds like a...more
On October 8, 2024, the EU Council adopted the Listing Act – a regulation amending the Prospectus Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 – which was first proposed in December 2022 and then subjected to several rounds of negotiations....more
Securitization has been a major focus in the fund finance industry as of late. Due to a confluence of factors, some of which are specific to fund finance, and some of which are features of the broader economic environment, it...more
Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer in the role’s 800-year history, delivered Labour’s first budget in 14 years on the 30th October. We have set out below a brief summary of some of the tax measures...more
On October 28, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published final regulations (the “final regulations”) regarding the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit under...more
Shutts & Bowen would like to inform you that earlier this week the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced a temporary postponement of the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting deadlines for...more
On October 11, 2024, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), a leading proxy advisory firm, updated their Equity Compensation Policies Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) to define what it means for a clawback policy...more
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (“EFAA”) amended the Federal Arbitration Act to prohibit mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. In Doe v. Second...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) requires a range of entities, primarily smaller, otherwise unregulated companies, to file a report with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...more
The new requirement for companies to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) prior to year-end has caused many business owners to ask what other housekeeping work they need to do. All company owners need to maintain...more
Welcome to our 10th issue of 2024 for our construction industry insights e-newsletter - The Site Report. In this edition, we cover a wide variety of topics of interest for those in the construction industry—from the use of...more
Yesterday, 30 October 2024, the Chancellor announced that the Autumn 2024 budget will raise taxes by £40bn, the biggest raise since 1993. While the Autumn budget arguably does not portray as pessimistic an outlook for...more
As part of the Autumn Statement, the UK government on 30 October 2024 announced a reform of its taxation of carried interest. This follows a call for evidence on the reform of the UK taxation treatment of carried interest in...more
Key points/Q&A Over the years, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX) have made continuous efforts to enhance the application process for new listing applications,...more
I was talking to Cooley’s Beth Sasfai and Michael Mencher about the challenges many companies are facing with ambitious climate goals that no longer seem realistic. Here’s what Beth and Michael told me (also see them in this...more
On October 25, 2024, the Small Business Administration (SBA) published a proposed rule to implement recommendations from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy’s memorandum “Increasing Small Business Participation on...more
Reports are that there over 50 million people in the world living in modern slavery conditions, and, of those, 60% work in forced labor in the private economy. Ensuring that your organization isn’t sourcing from suppliers who...more
On October 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed settled enforcement orders involving four current and former public companies – Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., Check Point Software Ltd, and...more
Despite the summer doldrums, cartel enforcers around the world had several notable enforcement actions and, perhaps more importantly, signaled a busy fall and winter. In the United States, the Department of Justice’s...more
The Critical Benchmarks Regulations 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum. The Regulations come into force on November 13, 2024. The instrument specifies two benchmarks, the WMR Closing Spot Rates...more