On February 28, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a former chief marketing officer’s claim of whistleblower retaliation under the Dodd Frank Act. Cellucci v. O’Leary No. 19-cv-02752...more
As reported in Proskauer’s Labor Relations Update blog, the NLRB issued an important opinion on December 17, 2019 relating to employer rules requiring confidentiality from employees during workplace investigations. Apogee...more
12/19/2019
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Corporate Counsel ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Internal Investigations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRB ,
Rule 21F-17 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Violations ,
White Collar Crimes ,
Workplace Investigations
On September 25, 2019, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Whistleblower Programs Improvement Act (the “Act”), which would extend anti-retaliation protections under the Dodd-Frank Act to internal complaints....more
On July 18, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a defendant-employer’s motion for summary judgment on a SOX whistleblower retaliation claim, holding that the Plaintiff did not have...more
8/7/2019
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Cybersecurity ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Internal Investigations ,
Retaliation ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Summary Judgment ,
Termination ,
Whistleblowers
In a petition for a writ of mandamus filed on April 29, 2019 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, an unidentified whistleblower who claims to have tipped the SEC to alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt...more
On May 8, 2019, the House Committee on Financial Services passed H.R. 2515, the Whistleblower Protection Reform Act of 2019, which would amend Section 922 of Dodd-Frank to extend the statute’s anti-retaliation protections to...more
On May 24, 2019, the SEC announced payment of more than $4.5 million to a whistleblower who sent an anonymous tip to the company alleging significant wrongdoing and then submitted the same information to the SEC....more
On March 26, 2019, the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower announced two multi-million dollar awards to whistleblowers who provided the SEC with information that assisted the agency in bringing a successful enforcement action....more
This special report provides a summary of some of the significant changes and developments that occurred in the past year in the private equity and hedge funds space, as well as certain recommended practices that investment...more
11/16/2016
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Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Administrative Proceedings ,
Annual Reports ,
Brazil ,
Broker-Dealer ,
Business Continuity Plans ,
CFTC ,
China ,
Compensation Agreements ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Cybersecurity ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EEO-1 ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Estate Planning ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Filing Requirements ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Markets ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Form ADV ,
Hedge Funds ,
High Net-Worth ,
Hong Kong ,
Insider Trading ,
Insurance Industry ,
Liability Insurance ,
MiFID II ,
Minimum Salary ,
OCIE ,
Over-Time ,
Popular ,
Private Equity Funds ,
Private Investment Funds ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act ,
Regulation AT ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Required Forms ,
Retirement Plan ,
Rule 506(d) ,
SEC Examination Priorities ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Separation Agreement ,
Tax Returns ,
UK Brexit ,
Unemployment Benefits ,
Valuation ,
Whistleblowers ,
White-Collar Exemptions
Proskauer has released the 2015 Proskauer Annual Review and Outlook for Hedge, Private Equity and Other Private Funds. The 88-page report is a summary of significant legal changes and developments in the private funds space...more
11/25/2015
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Cybersecurity ,
EU ,
Gift Tax ,
Hedge Funds ,
Hong Kong ,
Internships ,
Popular ,
Private Equity ,
Private Funds ,
Registered Investment Advisors ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
UK ,
Volcker Rule ,
Whistleblowers
On November 16, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower (“OWB”) released its fifth Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program to Congress, which details information on OWB’s...more