Director Margaret Ryan recently gave a speech describing her “guiding principles” and enforcement priorities. She balanced the need for toughness with a focus on fraud that harms inve...
Between October and December 2025, the SEC filed 29 actions against a combined total of 54 defendants and respondents, and the CFTC filed one case against three defendants. (These figures...
The New York State Attorney General filed civil actions against a former executive for insider trading and against his company for approving the trading plan that the executive used. Thes...
On December 4, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other DOJ officials participated in the annual ACI FCPA conference in Washington DC, outlining key principles to corporate enforcem...
On December 1, 2025, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced amendments to its Rules Relating to Investigations and Rules of Practice. The amendments are aimed at ...
With new leadership at the SEC, companies have had to grapple less with disclosure mandates and more with macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds. We address related disclosure implicati...
The CFTC issued an advisory on when it would refer cases to DOJ for criminal investigation and prosecution. The guidance is relatively brief and straightforward, and implements the Presid...
On June 9, 2025, DOJ announced new guidelines for the investigation and enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The Head of DOJ’s Criminal Division also provided additi...
The Department of Justice Criminal Division announced a series of policy changes on white-collar enforcement, covering enforcement priorities, the path to a declination, limitations on mo...
