AI Today in 5: August 5, 2025, The AI at the SEC Episode
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: New FCPA Enforcement Memo - What Does it Say?
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 17, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 22, 2025, The Upping Your Game Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2025, The Corruption at the DOJ Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 3, 2025, The Tribute to Ice Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Future of Enforcement with Jennifer Lee
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
The House Financial Services Committee voted to include a provision in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that would abolish the PCAOB. The proposal would reassign PCAOB functions to the SEC....more
SEC charges four companies with misleading cyber disclosures - Resulting from an investigation involving public companies potentially impacted by the compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion software and other related activity, the...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) delayed the adoption of a final rule with respect to its June 2023 proposal (Proposal) to increase auditors’ responsibility to evaluate and disclose a public company’s...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Fenwick’s Securities Law Update....more
The members of Maynard Nexsen’s Public Company Advisory Practice counsel public companies and companies aiming to become public on the full range of matters shaping their governance and operation in the public markets. As a...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a proposed amendment to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Rule 3502. The amended rule expands enforcement liability for associated persons who...more
Yesterday, the SEC held its third open meeting of the 2024 calendar year, at which the commissioners considered several proposals regarding auditors and the audits of public companies. Two of the proposals may be of...more
SEC enforcement director speaks on AI ‘washing’ - In our April 2024 One-Minute Reads, we covered the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) “washing.” Gurbir Grewal, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more
The SEC on Feb. 29, 2024, announced settled charges against Lordstown Motors Corp. (Lordstown) for allegedly misleading investors about sales prospects for the Endurance, Lordstown's flagship pickup truck for the electric...more
This is the first in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
Please join us for our 5th Annual Corporate & Securities Counsel Public Company Forum. This virtual half-day program will feature panel discussions focused on timely and practical guidance related to the latest developments...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has had one of its busiest years in recent memory, including with respect to standard setting, inspections and enforcement. Below is a summary of notable developments that...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) recently closed the comment period for its proposal (the Proposal) to significantly increase the responsibility of audit firms to evaluate and disclose a subject public...more
In June 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) proposed sweeping amendments to its auditing standards. Comment letters raise serious questions about the consequences of the proposed changes....more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s proposed auditing standards feature major implications for ESG that could upend corporate audits. On June 6, 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the...more
On June 3, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) proposed sweeping new auditing standards (PCAOB Release No. 2023-003) that would require auditors to consider a company’s noncompliance with laws and...more
On June 6, 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) proposed new auditing standards that would substantially broaden auditors’ responsibilities for considering an audit client’s noncompliance with laws...more
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) announced on December 15, 2022 that it has secured complete access to inspect and investigate audit firms in mainland China and Hong Kong for the first time in history....more
On December 15, 2022, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the U.S. independent regulator of public company auditing work, announced that it has completed a test inspection of two selected auditing firms in...more
Last week, the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) announced it had secured complete access to inspect and investigate issuer engagements of audit firms headquartered in China and Hong Kong, marking the...more
The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (“HFCAA”)1, in December 2020 passed by the Congress and signed into law by then-president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is one of the most influential measures in the...more
Continuing his recent efforts at clarifying the views of the Office of the Chief Accountant (“OCA”) on various topics, in an October 11, 2022 statement Acting Chief Accountant Paul Munter emphasized the SEC’s focus on auditor...more
SEC adopts final pay-versus-performance rules In August 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced its adoption of final rules requiring public companies to disclose information regarding the relationship...more