The American Bar Association held its 40th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime conference on March 5, 6, and 7, 2025, in Miami, Florida. The conference featured robust panel discussions with the federal and state judiciary, law enforcement officials, defense attorneys, corporate in-house counsel, and members of the academic community on a variety of
On November 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or “Commission”) announced its enforcement results for the fiscal year (“FY”) 2024. Though the SEC filed only 583 total enforcement actions in FY 2024—a decline of 26% from the 784 enforcement actions filed in FY 2023—the Commission obtained a record-setting $8.2 billion in financial
On November 12, 2024, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) published updated guidance for its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Antitrust Investigations. First published in 2019, the DOJ has updated its guidance several times since. The guidance is intended to educate the public and to guide prosecutors in making
The annual ALI-CLE Accountants’ Liability Conference occurred in Washington, D.C. on May 16 and 17, 2024 and was co-hosted by Junaid A. Zubairi, Chair of Vedder Price’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense group, and Veronica Callahan of Arnold & Porter LLP. The conference featured a wide variety of speakers, including regulators from the Securities
The below links direct to each article included in the August 2023 issue of the Investment Services Regulatory Update. These thought leadership pieces review new rules, proposed rules and guidance and alerts regarding the SEC.