Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 155, To Tesla and Beyond Edition
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 155
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
Daily Compliance News: May 15, 2025, The Downfall in Davos Edition
Daily Compliance News: March 28, 2025, The Cave or Go To Trial Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Celebrating the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies: Highlights with Erica Salmon Byrne
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What is a Public Offering?
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Are the Differences Between Private & Public Offerings?
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Meeting the Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Requirements
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Human Beings: Cybersecurity's Most Fragile Attack Surface
JONES DAY TALKS®: Court Grants Stay on SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule, but Companies Should Continue Preparations
Equity Award Delegations for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
SEC’s New Cyber Rules for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Commissioner Uyeda on “the Perils of Regulation by Theory and Hypothesis”
There was a noteworthy development in the ongoing legal challenge to the SEC’s mandatory climate disclosure law (dating from the Biden administration), which is currently pending in the Eighth Circuit. Following the decision...more
Welcome to Horizon, DLA Piper’s regular bulletin reporting on late-breaking legislative and policy developments in ESG. Our aim is to scan the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory horizon to help inform business decisions....more
The US Government Is Using AI To Detect Potential Wrongdoing, and Companies Should Too With agencies such as the SEC and DOJ using AI and other data analytics tools extensively to detect wrongdoing, companies need to adopt...more
In September 2023, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 253, Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and Senate Bill 261, Greenhouse Gases: Climate-Related Financial Risk (SB 261). California Gov. Gavin...more
While all eyes are on proposed federal and European climate disclosure rules, the California legislature passed two climate-related bills that overlap somewhat with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s proposed...more
Right now, one big question for companies is, “How do you balance the demands of investors and consumers against the political backdrop both nationally and at the state level?”...more
In the years following the banking and financial crisis of 2008, there was a particular focus by the media and lawmakers on CEOs and other executives collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation. In response,...more
Earlier this month, the SEC announced the amendment of its electronic filing rules. In addition to Form 144 filings, which we discussed in our June 22 post, the amendments will affect Form 11-Ks and “glossy” annual reports,...more
In Crest v. Padilla, No. 20STCV37513 (Cal. Super. Apr. 1, 2022), the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles (Green, J.) declared that Section 301.4 of the California Corporations Code is unconstitutional...more
On April 1, 2022, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment in a case challenging the legality of AB 979 under the California Constitution...more
Corporate governance practices vary significantly among public companies. This is a reflection of many factors, including: • Differences in the stage of development of companies, including the relative importance placed on...more
Glass Lewis announced updates to its United States Proxy Voting Policy Guidelines late November 2020. The 2021 Proxy Voting Policy Guidelines include a variety of changes from the 2020 version, including new provisions...more
In a move that continues California’s push for increased diversity on corporate boards, Governor Gavin Newsom on September 30, 2020 signed into law a bill that requires publicly held companies headquartered in the state to...more
When the Women on Corporate Boards Act (Section 1 of Substitute Senate Bill 6037) became effective on June 11, 2020, Washington became the second state (after California) to affirmatively address gender diversity on public...more