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SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Activity Plummeted in Final Year of Gensler Administration

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) drastically reduced its accounting and auditing enforcement activity in fiscal year 2024, the final year of Gary Gensler’s administration, ending two consecutive years of...more

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Directors Quarterly: January 2025

The latest edition of Directors Quarterly features a summary of board and committee agenda priorities for 2025, financial reporting and auditing updates, post-election observations from around the world, and more. Read the...more

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Key Business Considerations for U.S. Global Trade Policy

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As global trade policy affects supply chains and importing and exporting, companies often have interests on both sides of global trade issues. They want lower costs and efficient labor sources and want to sell their goods and...more

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Chair Gensler Overhauls PCAOB

On Friday June 4, 2021, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler removed the head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), an independent agency created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that is...more

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SEC Adopts Rule Providing New Regulatory Framework For Fund-Of-Funds

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In the News. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it adopted Rule 12d1-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), providing a new regulatory framework for fund-of-funds and final...more

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U.S. President’s Working Group Proposes Tougher Listing Rules for Chinese Companies

In response to U.S. President Trump’s June 4 Memorandum calling for “firm, orderly action to end the Chinese practice of flouting American transparency requirements without negatively affecting American investors and...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Trump Budget Proposes Folding the PCAOB into the SEC by 2022

According to a White House budget issued on February 10, 2020, the White House is considering transferring the authority of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB or Board) to the SEC by 2022 in order to...more

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White House’s Proposed Consolidation of PCAOB into SEC Could Reduce Audit Oversight

In its proposed budget for 2021, the White House called for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (“PCAOB”) “functions and responsibilities” to be consolidated into the SEC. According to the administration, having...more

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Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn problems now extend to the United States, where the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a probe into the accuracy of the company’s financial disclosures and internal controls....more

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