Constitutional attacks against the Securities Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) use of administrative proceedings have grown in strength as securities respondents across the country...
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The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2016, Global Competition Review
The United States Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division had yet another banner year in 2014. The Division’s relentless prosecution of cartels at home and abroad has resulted in s...
Yesterday, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech concerning the Department of Justice’s guidance memorandum issued on September 9, 2015 that further underscores DOJ...
The United States Department of Justice has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review a recent Second Circuit opinion that clarified what the Government must prove to establish...
The SEC, which has recently been investigating workplace agreements out of concern that they may impede whistleblowing activity protected by the Dodd-Frank Act, announced yesterday its fi...
On December 10, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that to obtain an insider trading conviction against a tippee, the Government must prove that the tippee knew b...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has defined, for the first time by a federal appellate court, a key statutory term in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”...
Continuing a flurry of recent enforcement activity under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has brought criminal charges again...
On March 6, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to compel the production of documents arising from defendants’ internal compliance investigati...
On March 19, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Tokyo-based trading company Marubeni Corporation had entered a guilty plea and will pay a criminal fine of $88 million in ...
