On March 10, 2026, the Department of Justice announced its first ever Department-wide corporate enforcement policy for all criminal cases. Under the new policy, companies that self-repor...
On February 24, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced a new policy to incentivize companies to self-report financial crimes. Companies could b...
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...
