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KPMG Research Shows Significant Proportion of Companies Not Ready for ESG Data Assurance Requirements

According to a survey conducted by KPMG, 75% of companies are not in a position to obtain third-party assurance on their published ESG data. This is despite the fact that two-thirds of companies must disclose such data, or...more

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Notable Bid Protest Decisions, October and November 2022

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The United States Government Accountability Office ("GAO") sets a high bar for those pursuing bid protests before it. The ratio of protests sustained to protests dismissed or denied is heavily tilted toward the latter....more

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Government Contracts Legal Round-Up | 2022 Issue 11

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Welcome to Jenner & Block’s Government Contracts Legal Round‑Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal,...more

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Delaware Chancery Court Dismisses Cigna Derivative Suit Over Failed Anthem Merger

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Delaware Chancery Court Dismisses Cigna Derivative Suit Over Failed Anthem Merger; The PCAOB Sanctions Former KPMG Vice Chair Of Audit For Failure To Supervise Senior Members Of KPMG's Audit Practice; Ninth Circuit Affirms...more

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The PCAOB Brings First Failure-To-Supervise Case

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On April 5, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board levied a $100,000 fine against Scott Marcello, the former Vice Chair of Audit at KPMG. The penalty is noteworthy for two reasons: (1) it’s the largest monetary...more

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ESG Trends for 2022: The Board-Level Perspective

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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues are clearly going to be uppermost in the thoughts of CEOs and their corporate boards in 2022, if recent research by KPMG is anything to go by. ...more

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ESG Risk Management & TPRM: A Best Practice Approach?

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There are few initiatives currently afoot in banking that do not feature Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) credentials, either to engage investors and customers or deliver the ESG risk management capabilities that...more

The Volkov Law Group

Insights from Recent NAVEX Global and KPMG Surveys

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Chief compliance officers are always hungry for benchmarking data, for comparisons and insights around how their respective compliance programs stack up against other companies, especially in the same industry.  Compliance...more

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The Triple Threat Facing Generalist Law Firms, Part 3: The Big Four

The Big Four bogeyman has haunted the U.S. legal market for years. Like any good horror movie villain, it’s shrouded in mystery. We don’t know when it’s coming, or exactly what will go down, but we know that a...more

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Global Accountants’ Liability Update – September 2020

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On 21 August 2020, the court of Chancery of the State of Delaware granted a motion brought by three Defendant KPMG firms to dismiss a cause of action seeking to hold KPMG LLP (KPMG US) liable as the agent of KPMG Cardenas...more

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New York Appellate Court Finds Bankruptcy Trustee Not Bound by Arbitration Clause in Bankrupt Company’s Engagement Agreement With...

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A New York appellate court has held that a company’s bankruptcy trustee was not bound by an arbitration agreement entered into by the company and an accounting firm....more

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Global Accountants’ Liability Update – January 2020

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Hogan Lovells’ global team of securities and professional liability lawyers is uniquely positioned to monitor legal developments across the globe that impact accountants’ liability risk. We have experienced lawyers on five...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.20.2019 | Top Story: Utility PG&E Struggles with Fires and Path Out of Bankruptcy

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PG&E’s woes continue. Not only is the company still in the midst of a dangerous fire season, but it’s struggling to find a path out of bankruptcy while fending off a growing chorus of cities and state officials “threatening...more

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FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 449, Francine McKenna with an update on the KPMG-PCAOB Scandal

In this episode I visit with one of my favorite people, Francine McKenna, a reporter at MarketWatch. We check in on the current developments in the KPMG-PCAOB scandal including recent guilty pleas, sentencing and where the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.12.2019 | Top Story: Purdue Pharma Reaches Tentative Comprehensive Opioid Crisis Settlement

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The White House is reportedly nearing a nationwide ban on most flavored e-cigarettes, a direct response to the recent spate of vaping-related illnesses that have affected hundreds across the country....more

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What’s in the Bottle? FDA Announces New Blockchain Pilot Program for Tracking Drug Distribution

Where does my prescription come from? Has it been altered or diluted? Can I trust the label? With millions of prescriptions filled each year, quality control and security across the pharmaceutical supply chain seems like a...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

This Week in FCPA-Episode 159, week ending June 21, 2019 – the KPMG Trainwreck and Walmart Settles

With KPMG in the news for one of the biggest ethical trainwrecks in recent memory (or since the last biggest ethical trainwreck-Walmart) Tom and Jay return to discuss both events some of this week’s top compliance and ethics...more

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Day of Reckoning for KPMG-Failures in Ethics

The day of reckoning was here for KMPG and I do not think that anyone could have imagined how bad it would be for the firm. Last week the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that KPMG was preparing to pay up to $50...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.14.2019 | Top Story: Oil prices shoot up after attacks on tankers

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In case you haven’t had your eye on matters of global intrigue of late, figured we’d get you a bit caught up so that you know why your gas prices are heading north in the next couple of weeks....more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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A quick check-in with Fed Chair Powell, the man trying to help keep the US economy humming—a hard enough job as it is, but one made much tougher by a White House that hasn’t been shy about voicing its near-constant...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The SEC has announced a settlement with nearly 80 investment advisory firms in which they will pay back more than $125 million “to clients who were steered into higher-cost mutual funds without adequate disclosure” as part of...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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As many expected, the US economy slowed in Q4 2018, growing at a 2.6% annual rate in the final three months of last year. That figure was better than some forecasters thought, but it still marks a “significant slowdown” from...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The White House strongly hinted yesterday that it will consider delaying the rapidly approaching March 2 deadline to reach a trade deal with China, “saying the United States might not impose higher tariffs on Chinese goods if...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Fed wrapped its January meetings yesterday with the expected news that it would leave the benchmark interest rate unchanged and the less-guaranteed report that it was hitting the pause button on future rate hikes (aka,...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn problems now extend to the United States, where the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a probe into the accuracy of the company’s financial disclosures and internal controls....more

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