Earlier this month, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton issued a statement announcing a change in the SEC’s waiver application process that will streamline the SEC settlement process. The Commissi...
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced an updated version of the Criminal Division’s...
On March 6, 2019, CFTC Director of Enforcement James McDonald said the agency is pursuing foreign corrupt practices that constitute violations of the Commodities Exchange Act, with some i...
On August 24, 2018, the Second Circuit held in
United States v. Hoskins
that a nonresident foreign national cannot be found liable for violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Fore...
On June 25, 2018, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an amended decision in United States v. Martoma. In its initial decision, the Second Circuit e...
On June 12, 2018, the New York Court of Appeals overruled longstanding Appellate Division precedent and held that fraud claims brought by the New York Attorney General (“NYAG”) under ...
Notwithstanding the venerable status of the attorney-client privilege and the important purposes it serves, the federal banking regulators and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hav...
On May 9, 2018, in remarks to the New York City Bar Association’s Seventh Annual White Collar Crime Institute, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new Department of Justi...
On November 29, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a new Department of Justice FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy, in his remarks at the 34th International Conference o...
On October 26, 2017, Stephanie Avakian and Steven Peikin, Co-Directors of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, provided remarks at the 2017 Securities ...
