What the Board Should Be Asking About the Compliance Program
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 3: Claims and Investigations
False Claims Act Insights - The Art and Science of Corporate Compliance in Managing FCA Risk
An Ounce of Prevention: Keys to Understanding and Preventing AI and Cybersecurity Risks
Behavioral Health Compliance
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Using External Resources for Internal Investigations
Bank Investigations and Enforcement Actions: Lessons Learned — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Justice Insiders Podcast: SEC Plays Chicken with Jarkesy
What Nonprofit Board Leadership Needs To Know About Internal Investigations
Compliance Series Part 3: Ensuring Compliance Programs are Effective
Compliance Programs Part 2: Designing a Successful Compliance Program
Compliance Programs Part 1: What is a Compliance Program and Why do Businesses Need One?
How to Combat Corporate Theft: Office Space - Hiring to Firing Podcast
All Things Investigations: Episode 28 - New French Anti-Corruption Investigative Guidance with Anne Gaustad and Bryan Sillaman
Investigative Power: Utilizing Self Service Solutions for Internal Investigations?
Internal Investigations and the Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry
CyberSide Chats: Cyber Law, Cybersecurity, and Whistleblowers. A Conversation with Ben Wright
Internal Investigations for Nonprofits: A Means of Identifying and Addressing Misconduct Before the Regulators Come Calling
Nuts and Bolts of a Repayment Investigation: Keys to Conducting Investigations Under the 60-Day Repayment Rule
Internal Investigations in the Asia-Pacific Region
The FCA is focused on reducing non-financial misconduct to enhance the reputation of the UK financial services sector. Spurred on by positive levels of engagement with its 2021 discussion paper, the FCA’s latest consultation...more
It has been a summer of revelations leaving the financial services sector facing uncertainty and increased scrutiny on how allegations of behavioral misconduct might be managed going forward. This came after multiple...more
The UK’s Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which provides a voice for UK corporates, is facing a crisis following recent serious and well-publicised allegations of sexual misconduct. At the time of writing, multiple...more
At the end of June 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) issued a public censure to Redcentric PLC for market abuse resulting from significant accounting errors. The resolution is particularly eye-catching because...more
On 5 September the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the long-awaited, and much discussed, case of SFO v ENRC. Justice Andrews’ ruling in the lower court, which rejected ENRC’s claim to litigation privilege, had...more
There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more
The CEO of Barclays risks losing his 1.6 million-dollar bonus for launching his own personal investigation to identify the company whistleblower who wrote two anonymous letters about his colleague to the Barclays’s Board of...more
Legal professional privilege allows clients to share information with lawyers, knowing it need not be revealed in court. Privilege extends to legal advice generally, and to documents prepared in contemplation of litigation. ...more
Lawyers' notes of interviews with a bank's employees conducted as part of two investigations were not privileged since the employees were not the "client" and the notes were not lawyers' working papers, according to the...more
The Financial Conduct Authority published a Final Notice banning Mr. Andrew James Tinney from the UK financial services industry. Mr. Tinney was the Global Chief Operating Officer of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management,...more
With so much potentially at stake, the initial steps and strategic decisions taken in any company investigation are critical to setting the tone for a focused, credible and effective inquiry. This is paramount not only for...more
On November 6, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a speech by Jamie Symington, director in enforcement (wholesale, unauthorized business and intelligence), on FCA-regulated firms’ internal investigations of...more
I always enjoy listening to the legal “doomsayers” who love to propound hysterical claims in an effort to gain attention. It reminds me of little children screaming for attention. Unfortunately, in the case of lawyers...more
On March 6, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (“KBR”) must produce to a qui tam relator 89 documents relating to internal investigations...more
CFTC Proposed Rule on Commodity Pools - On November 5, the CFTC issued a proposed rule that would require that all registered introducing brokers (IBs), commodity pool operators (CPOs) and commodity trading advisors...more