Corporate Governance, Accounting Controls

The Big Picture: Anti-Corruption Enforcement and Integrity Program Developments in Brazil

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 3/12/2025

The last several months brought forth major reforms to Brazil’s anti-corruption regulations and enforcement environment, including in the way that Brazilian companies are expected to enhance their compliance programs....more

Don’t Forget Accounting Rules When Accelerating Vesting of Stock-Based Awards

BCLP on 2/5/2025

Last month, the SEC settled charges against Celsius Holdings, Inc. for allegedly improper accounting when it modified equity compensation awards for six departing employees and retiring directors. The errors caused allegedly...more

SEC Expands Scope of Internal Accounting Controls in Cybersecurity Breach Settlement

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/9/2024

The SEC continues to expand its cybersecurity enforcement authority to include allegations that a company's failure to monitor its managed security service providers (MSSP) amounts to violations of federal securities laws....more

SEC Remains Focused on Cybersecurity

Epiq on 4/3/2019

After a long silence since guidance was last issued a year ago, there’s now widespread expectation that the Securities and Exchange Commission will get much more specific this year about new cybersecurity disclosures for...more

Governance & Securities Law Focus: Asia Edition, February 2019

A&O Shearman on 2/14/2019

In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal Asian, U.S., European and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to Asian corporates and financial institutions. ...more

Effective Compliance and the Importance of Accounts Payable Function

The Volkov Law Group on 5/18/2017

As the compliance function has matured, Chief Compliance Officers have built important relationships with related functions that are critical to the compliance function. Over the last few years, we have seen the Justice...more