Avoiding a Bored Board
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 2, Oversight
Daily Compliance News: July 11, 2025, The What is a COI Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Compliance Tip of the Day – COSO Objective 1 – Control Environment
Sunday Book Review: June 15, 2025. The Books on Corporate Governance Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Board Oversight on Internal Controls
Great Women in Compliance: Board Bond - Why Ethics & Compliance Professionals Should Be on Boards and How to Get on One
Tariffs and Trade Series: What Boards of Directors Need to Know
Third-Party Risk The competitive world of banking struggles to keep up with technological advances, particularly in a regulatory environment.
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 4: Don't Be Evil: In the Hot Seat of Data Privacy, Part 1
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Director Duties and Best Practices for the Typical Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Designators, Members, Directors, Officers - The Who’s Who of Nonprofit Governance
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Market Leaders Podcast Episode 94: Exploring the Perils of Optics-Driven DEI Initiatives with Guest Mira Dewji
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 322 -- Checking in on Caremark Cases
Compliance into the Weeds: What Are Boards Doing About AI (Hint: Not Much)
Conflictos de interés en Colombia, nueva regulación
This essay traces the origin and development of the first dedicated law school course on corporate compliance and ethics programs in the United States. Responding to legal and practice developments over the last two decades,...more
Welcome to Saul Ewing’s Public Companies Quarterly Update series. Our intent is to, on a quarterly basis, highlight important legal developments of which we think public companies should be aware. This edition is related to...more
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
Companies have to demand a new focus from their CEOs, senior executives and legal compliance team in response to the new DOJ and regulatory initiatives. These steps are not just suggestions nor items that can be prioritized...more
In September 2020, Patrick Mincey, Zachary Bolitho and I presented on the changes and trends we expected to see in SEC and DOJ enforcement of white-collar cases. We cautioned our clients that the government was going to...more
Compliance & Investigations im Jahr 2025 - „Wirksame Compliance erfordert ganzheitliche Ansätze.“ Was ist für die Themen „Compliance & Investigations“ im Jahr 2025 zu erwarten? Fünf Thesen von Prof. Dr. Thomas Grützner...more
We are the end of my multi-part exploration of the Herbalife Nutrition Ltd (Herbalife) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission...more
As the global economy struggles and companies continue to adapt to disruptions, organizations are facing an increased likelihood of whistleblower claims, bad behavior and market-facing allegations that require an internal...more
A piece by Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog had some very stark language. He quoted from the Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson) 6-K filing for the following, “While the Company had a compliance program and a supporting...more
On October 1, 2019, in In re Clovis Oncology, Inc. Derivative Litigation, a Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims under the Caremark decision against individual directors for failing to...more
Let’s consider a list of 20 questions to reflect the oversight role of directors. These are questions the Board should ask of both senior management and the Board itself. The questions are not intended to be an exact...more
Corporate boards all want to believe that their companies maintain an ethical culture. Each board members knows the right words, platitudes and buzz words to use. No one can fault them there. But like every issue in life,...more
I have long predicted that corporate board members are in for a rude awakening. Corporate boards have to improve their ability and knowledge surrounding supervision and monitoring of a company’s ethics and compliance...more
CCO reporting to the Audit/Compliance Committee must be structured carefully to promote ethics and compliance. Here are five best practices to help guide the reporting....more
IMPORTANT BOARD COMPOSITION DEVELOPMENT - The board’s nominating committee will benefit from an overview of The Conference Board’s important new survey on board composition, turnover and refreshment. According to the...more
Today, is the second in a two-part series based on an interview with Rakhi Kumar, Senior Managing Director, Head of ESG Investments and Asset Stewardship, at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and SSGA’s recent...more
I recently had the chance to visit with Rakhi Kumar, Senior Managing Director, Head of ESG Investments and Asset Stewardship, at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)....more
I have long been interested in business leadership. I approached a good friend Richard Lummis to ask if he would host me in such a series. Out of this came 12 O’Clock High, a Podcast on Business Leadership....more
After almost two years, you might think that Wells Fargo, its senior management and Board of Directors would have gotten the message from its regulators to take its compliance obligations seriously, remediate and put ethics...more
When you look back on the rise of the ethics and compliance profession, you cannot ignore the history of accomplishments. It is easy to minimize these accomplishments as a reaction to the government’s aggressive FCPA...more
Corporate boards need to devote more energy to oversight and improvement of corporate culture and compliance. Over the last ten years, we have witnessed corporate scandals and misconduct that could have been prevented or, at...more
I am beginning to feel this week’s theme becoming all-encompassing. As hard as I might try, it looks like it will be the Houston Astros second World Series appearance. During the first one back in 2005, I was in the corporate...more
This week, Jay and I have a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance related stories. We discuss: 1. Brazilian meatpacker JBS agrees to the largest fine ever for fine for bribery and corruption, $3.2bn...more
Today we honor one of the most iconic moments of World War II (WWII) and one of the most famous photographs of all time, that of the Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. Marine...more
In an unusual FCPA enforcement action, the Justice Department and the SEC resolved FCPA violations against Sociedad Quimica y Minera, a Chilean chemical and mining company, for a total of $30.5 million, for paying...more