Compliance into the Weeds: The SEC and Climate Disclosures
PODCAST: Trending Now An IP Podcast - Patent Office Secrecy Orders
Life Sciences Quarterly (Q3 2019): SEC Enforcement and Class Actions Regarding FDA Communications
Impact of environmental, social and governance agenda on tax
This Week in FCPA-Episode 80, The Last Jedi Edition
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 39, Disclosure of Ransomware Attacks
Attorney Peter Zeidenberg was surprised to learn that NIH had successfully clawed back $3.6 millionâplus a nearly 100% penaltyâfrom Cleveland Clinic. The Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed the award funds were ill-gotten...more
Both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption recognize that the news media plays a vital role in the detection of bribery and other acts of corruption...more
Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team reviews a new program announced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) that aims to incentivize reporting of corporate and financial misconduct....more
Representatives from the French and U.S. governments, judiciary and private sector discussed early lessons from the 2022 reform of the so-called French âblocking statuteâ at a Skadden roundtable in Paris on 27 November 2023. ...more
Last week, the Department of Justice (âDOJâ) announced it declined to prosecute Lifecore, a U.S. biomedical company, after Lifecore voluntarily disclosed that a company it acquired paid bribes to Mexican officials and...more
Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasnât reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more
On October 4, 2023, the Department of Justiceâs (âDOJâ) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new âMergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policyâ (âM&A Safe Harbor Policyâ or âPolicyâ) for companies that voluntarily...more
On July 26, the Department of Commerce, Department of the Treasury, and Department of Justice released a Tri-Seal Compliance Note (July Note) providing guidance on voluntary self-disclosure of potential violations of U.S....more
On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released joint...more
A former hospital worker in Arizona was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts involving identity theft and health information disclosure. In the plea deal,...more
Since the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. has adopted a new, more aggressive sanctions strategy, increasingly going after parties who enable sanctioned businesses and individuals to conduct business and...more
One university lost 14 awards; another, four. An investigator was suspended governmentwide. A public institution paid back more than $850,000, while two others returned nearly a million dollars....more
Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more
U.S. Policy Developments - Since the fall of 2022, DOJ has made several policy pronouncements in connection with its efforts to combat corporate crime. While it remains to be seen how these policies will ultimately affect...more
Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 2. (January 2023) -Since his arrest in August 2019, Feng âFranklinâ Tao has published 16 âresearch articlesâ for the University of Kansas (KU), authored a book and began...more
When healthcare providers and other government contractors are subject to scrutiny for bills submitted to the government, it is often the result of a whistleblower complaint filed under the qui tam provisions of the False...more
When a company discovers that a crime may have been committed by individuals within the company, or is alerted by the government of that possibility, the company will often hire an outside law firm to conduct an internal...more
The slogan of Smokey the Bear is that âOnly you can prevent forest fires.â This may also be true of franchise professionals when it comes to egregious franchise fraud. The good news is that our profession is stepping up and...more
Summaries of recent legislative and regulatory developments with respect to: â˘The SECâs Examination Priorities for 2021- â˘The SECâs Focus on Digital Asset Securities- â˘The SECâs New Marketing Rule... ...more
On June 25, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Jack Abramoff intends to plead guilty to criminal violations of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA), in what is the first known criminal prosecution under...more
SBA and Department of Treasury Announce Disclosure of PPP Recipients - After weeks of mounting public and congressional pressure, on Friday, June 19, the SBA and Department of Treasury announced that it will make...more
This issue of Skaddenâs semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including a review of the first year of GDPR enforcement, analysis of...more
Early reports suggested that although Teresa Mayâs cabinet wasnât thrilled, it backed the PMâs Brexit plan, leaving the controversial deal to make its way to Parliament. But the resignation of two Cabinet membersâincluding...more
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman, in the Southern District of Florida, ruled last month that outside counselâs âoral downloadsâ of internal investigation findings to the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the top compliance- and ethics-related stories of the week, including: 1. There are several FCPA 40th anniversary pieces going up these days. The FCPA Blog is looking...more